Cambarellus (Cambarellus) prolixus Villalobos and Hobbs 1981

Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.

Containing group: Cambarellus (Cambarellus)

Types

Holotype, allotype, and morphotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 177206, 177207, 177208 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, Instituto de Biologia de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Texas, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., British Museum (Natural History), London, England.

Type Locality

Lago de Chapala, 500 meters offshore from north levee at Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico.

Range

Known only from Lago de Chapala.

Habitat

Lentic situations.

References

Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.

Villalobos Figueroa, Alejandro, and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. 1981. A New Dwarf Crayfish from the Pacific Versant of Mexico (Decapoda: Cambaridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 94(2): 492-502, figures 1-3.

About This Page

Page constructed by Emily Browne.

Keith A. Crandall
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

James W. Fetzner, Jr.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA

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