Parastacus gomesae 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 : 50

Parastacus gomesae Huber, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2022

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Parastacus gomesae Huber et al. 2022: 266 , figs. 1, 5, 7–10.—­ De los Ríos-Escalante et al. 2022: 1129 (appendix), fig. 1g.—­ Huber et al. 2024: 14 (key).

Type locality. São Jerônimo , 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. 31 ).

Habitat. Streams ( Huber et al. 2022). This species builds burrows with 1-5 interconnected tunnels (up to 70 cm) ending in a life chamber, and the entries of the galleries are delimited by simple holes or by chimneys, which can reach up to 10 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 31. Parastacus gomesae Huber, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2022: living specimen in nature.