Yuebeipotamon calciatile, a new genus and new species of freshwater crab from southern China (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae).
A new genus and species of freshwater crab, Yuebeipotamon calciatile gen. n., sp. n., is described from southern China. While the carapace features are superficially similar to species of Sinopotamon Bott, 1967, Longpotamon Shih, Huang & Ng, 2016, and Tenuilapotamon Dai, Song, Li, Chen, Wang & Hu, 1984, the new genus possesses a distinctive combination of carapace, ambulatory leg, male thoracic sternal, male abdominal, and gonopodal characters that distinguish it from these and other genera. Molecular evidence derived from the mitochondrial 16S rDNA supports the establishment of a new genus.
Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia; Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia; School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
Chao
C
Huang
Department of Life Science, National Chung Hsing University, 250, Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung 402, Taiwan.
Hsi-Te
HT
Shih
Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia; School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
Si Ying
SY
Mao
16S rDNA; China; Potamidae; Yuebeipotamon calciatile; freshwater crabs; new genus; new species; systematics
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