Integrative approach to describe new species of squat lobsters of the genera Heteronida Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996 and Torbenella Baba, 2008 (Decapoda, Munididae) from the Southwestern Pacific Ocean
Author
Macpherson, Enrique
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Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), C. acc. Cala Sant Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge MA 02138, USA. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
macpherson@ceab.csic.es
Author
Rodríguez-Flores, Paula C.
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paularodriguezflores@g.harvard.edu
Author
Machordom, Annie
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annie@mncn.csic.es
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2023
2023-02-27
860
1
116
140
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.860.2055
journal article
54444
10.5852/ejt.2023.860.2055
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2118-9773
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Key to species of the genus
Heteronida
1. Body densely granulated, with numerous large granules .........................................
H. ceres
sp. nov.
– Body not densely granulated, with minute or small granules ........................................................... 2
2. Rostrum without ridge in midline ..................................
H. barunae
Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996
– Rostrum with longitudinal ridge in midline ...................................................................................... 3
3. Branchial region of carapace with distinct elevation. Gastric process prominently high and anteriorly produced ......................................................................................
H. aspinirostris
(
Khodkina, 1981
)
– Branchial region of carapace without elevation. Gastric process low and rounded ........................... ..............................................................................................
H. clivicola
Macpherson & Baba, 2006