A new and rare epigean asellid from western Mexico Caecidotea contrerasbalderasi sp. nov. (Isopoda: Asellidae) with a new suture pattern in pleopod IV for the Mexican epigean species

Abstract A new epigean asellid isopod, Caecidotea contrerasbalderasi sp. nov. is described from Nayarit, northwestern Mexico. This new species has morphological characters belonging to two different types of environments, both depigmentation and anophthalmia, indicators of organisms adapted to live...

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Main Authors: Leonardo García-Vázquez, Ernesto Campos, Gabino A. Rodríguez-Almaráz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Carcinologia 2023-05-01
Series:Nauplius
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-64972023000100211&lng=en&tlng=en