Parastacus macanudo Huber, Rockhill, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2020

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

Parastacus macanudo Huber, Rockhill, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2020

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Parastacus macanudo Huber et al., 2020: 2 , figs. 1–5.—­ Huber et al. 2022: 276 (key).—­ De los Ríos-Escalante et al. 2022: 1129 (appendix), fig. 1j, 1p. —­ Huber et al. 2024: 14 (key).

Type locality. São Leopoldo , Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ( Huber et al. 2020) .

Diagnosis and Description. Huber et al. (2020).

Distribution. Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul ( Huber et al. 2020).

Color of live specimens. Huber et al. (2020) ( Fig. 29 ).

Habitat. Swamp forest ( Huber et al. 2020). This species builds deep burrows with small chimneys in the river margins. Burrows of P. pilicarpus can be identified as type 2 according to Horwitz and Richardson’s (1986) classification and the species can be considered a tertiary burrower based on Hobbs’ (1942) classification ( Huber et al. 2020).

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FIGURE 29. Parastacus macanudo Huber, Rockhill, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2020: living specimen in nature.