Villalobosius is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing a single species, Villalobosius lopezformenti.[1] It lives in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and is adapted to a troglobitic lifestyle.[2]
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| Genus: | Villalobosius Ng & Low, 2010
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| Species: | V. lopezformenti
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| Villalobosius lopezformenti (Alvarez & Villalobos, 1991)
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[of genus Villalobosius]
[of species V. lopezformenti]
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Nomenclature edit
The species was originally described as Stygothelphusa lopezformenti in 1991, but the genus name Stygothelphusa was discovered to be a junior homonym of Stygothelphusa Ng, 1989, and a replacement name, Villalobosus, was created in 2000.[1][3] This was also found to be a junior homonym, of the subgenus Villalobosus Holthuis, 1972 in the crayfish genus Procambarus, and so it, too, was replaced.[4] The genus is therefore currently known as Villalobosius.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
- ^ Fernando Alvarez & José Luis Villalobos (1991). "A new genus and two new species of freshwater crabs from Mexico, Odontothelphusa toninae and Stygothelphusa lopezformenti (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 104 (2): 288–294.
- ^ Peter K. L. Ng & Fernando Alvarez (2000). "Villalobosus, a replacement name for Stygothelphusa Alvarez and Villalobos, 1991 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae), preoccupied by Stygothelphusa Ng, 1898 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 48 (2): 337.
- ^ a b Peter K. L. Ng & Martyn E. Y. Low (2010). "On the generic nomenclature of nine brachyuran names, with four replacement names and two nomina protecta (Crustacea: Decapoda)" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 2489: 34–46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2489.1.2.
External links edit
- Peter Davie (2011). "Villalobosius Ng & Alvarez, 2000". World Register of Marine Species.
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