Parastacus guapo Huber, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2022

Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra & Araujo, Paula Beatriz, 2024, Taxonomic review of the genus Parastacus Huxley, 1879 (Decapoda: Astacidea: Parastacidae) with description of five new species, Zootaxa 5455 (1), pp. 1-84 : 49-50

Parastacus guapo Huber, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2022

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Parastacus guapo Huber et al. 2022: 254 , 276 (key), figs. 1–6).—­ De los Ríos-Escalante et al. 2022: 1129 (appendix), fig. 1h.—­ Huber et al. 2024: 14 (key).

Type locality. Pantano Grande, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ( Huber et al. 2022). Diagnosis and Description. Huber et al. (2022).

Distribution. Brazil: state of Rio Grande do Sul ( Huber et al. 2022).

Color of live specimens. Huber et al. (2022) ( Fig. 30 ).

Habitat. Wetlands ( Huber et al. 2022). This species builds deep burrows with 1-4 interconnected tunnels (up to 1m) ending in a life chamber, and the entries of the galleries are delimited by simple holes or by chimneys, which can reach up to 8 cm high and wide. Burrows of P. guapo can be identified as type 1a, b according to Horwitz and Richardson’s (1986) classification and the species can be considered a primary burrower based on Hobbs’ (1942) classification ( Huber et al. 2022).

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FIGURE 30. Parastacus guapo Huber, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2022: living specimen in nature.