Parastacus tuerkayi Ribeiro, Huber & Araujo

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 : 47

Parastacus tuerkayi Ribeiro, Huber & Araujo in Ribeiro et al., 2017

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Parastacus tuerkayi Ribeiro, Huber & Araujo in Ribeiro et al., 2017: 3, figs. 1–5.—­ Crandall & De Grave 2017: 641.—­ Rogers et al. 2020: 879 (key), fig. 23.70.—­ Huber et al. 2022: 276 (key).—­ De los Ríos-Escalante et al. 2022: 1130 (appendix), fig. 1p. —­ Huber et al. 2024: 14 (key).

Type locality. Penha , state of Santa Catarina, Brazil (Ribeiro et al. 2017) .

Diagnosis and Description. Ribeiro et al. (2017).

Distribution. Brazil: state of Santa Catarina, Brazil (Ribeiro et al. 2017).

Color of live specimens. Ribeiro et al. (2017) ( Fig. 27 ).

Habitat. Swamp forests (Ribeiro et al., 2017). Parastacus tuerkayi build burrows that can reach a depth of up to one meter, but with few branches and with long (up to 15 cm) and large (up to 12 cm) chimneys (Ribeiro et al. 2017). Burrows of P. tuerkayi can be identified as type 2 according to Horwitz and Richardson’s (1986) classification and the species can be considered a primary burrower based on Hobbs’ (1942) classification ( Ribeiro et al. 2020).

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FIGURE 27. Parastacus tuerkayi Ribeiro, Huber & Araujo in Ribeiro et al., 2017: living specimen in aquarium.