Cg. Jara et Vl. Palacios, Two new species of Aegla leach (Crustacea : Decapoda : Anomura : Aeglidae)from southern Chile, P BIOL SOC, 112(1), 1999, pp. 106-119
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18
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
Two new species of the genus Aegla Leach from southern Chile are described.
Aegla cholchol, new species, a medium to large sized spinulated aeglid, ha
s the River Chol-Chol (Cautin Province) as its type locality. It is probabl
y more related to A. rostrata, from subandean lakes at the Tolten and Valdi
via River basins than to A. bahamondei, from the Tucapel River Basin on the
western slope of the Nahuelbuta Coastal Cordillera. The other, A. hueicoll
ensis, new species, a small to medium sized non-spinulated aeglid, has the
River Pichihueicolla (Valdivia Province), on the western slope of the Pelad
a Coastal Cordillera, as its type-locality. A. hueicollensis is similar to
A. abtao with which it shares more morphological attributes than with other
non-spinulated aeglids of the same geographic region (i.e., A. alacalufi,
A. manni, and A. concepcionensis).