Procambarus (Austrocambarus) rodriguezi
Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.Types
Holotype, allotype, and "morphotype," National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 81302 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Type Locality
Cueva de Ojo de Agua, west-northwest of Hacienda Potrero Viejo, Paraje Nuevo, Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico.Remarks
Reddell (1981:112) noted that the type-locality of this species has been stated to be "Cueva del Agua" and "Cueva del Ojo de Agua Grande," but the brief description of the type-locality as given by Hobbs (1943[b]) does not fit Cueva del Ojo de Agua Grande. Furthermore, Cueva del Ojo de Agua Grande has no habitat suitable for crayfish. It contains only a single passage and this contains a rapid rock-floored stream. A single juvenile crayfish was seen trapped in a tiny drip pool in the latter cave where flood water apparently isolated it. It must be assumed that the type-locality has not been rediscovered.References
Hobbs, Horton H., Jr. 1943. Two New Crayfishes of the Genus Procambarus from Mexico (Decapoda, Astacidae). Lloydia, 6: 198-206, 2 plates.
Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.
Reddell, James R. 1981. A Review of the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. Texas Memorial Museum, Bulletin, 27: 327 pages, figures 1-87.
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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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