New Antarctic clawed lobster species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Nephropidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island

Allysson P. Pinheiro; Antônio Álamo Feitosa Saraiva; William Santana; Juliana Manso Sayão; Rodrigo Giesta Figueiredo; Taissa Rodrigues; Luiz Carlos Weinschütz; Luiza Corral Martins de Oliveira Ponciano; Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner

doi:10.33265/polar.v39.3727

Allysson P. Pinheiro Laboratório de Crustáceos do Semiárido, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Crato, CE, Brazil; Laboratory of Systematic Zoology, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, Universidade do Sagrado Coração, Bauru, SP, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1565-6371
Antônio Álamo Feitosa Saraiva Laboratory of Systematic Zoology, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, Universidade do Sagrado Coração, Bauru, SP, Brazil; Laboratório de Paleontologia, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Crato, CE, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0127-8912
William Santana Laboratório de Crustáceos do Semiárido, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Crato, CE, Brazil; Laboratory of Systematic Zoology, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, Universidade do Sagrado Coração, Bauru, SP, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3086-4419
Juliana Manso Sayão Laboratório de Paleobiologia e Paleogeografia Antártica, Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3619-0323
Rodrigo Giesta Figueiredo Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Alegre, ES, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4304-6434
Taissa Rodrigues Laboratório de Paleontologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Centro de Ciências Humanas e Naturais, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7918-1358
Luiz Carlos Weinschütz Centro Paleontológico da Universidade do Contestado, Universidade do Contestado, Mafra, SC, Brazil
Luiza Corral Martins de Oliveira Ponciano Laboratório de Tafonomia e Paleoecologia Aplicadas, Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6700-2391
Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner Laboratory of Systematics and Taphonomy of Fossil Vertebrates, Departamento de Geologia e Paleontologia, Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7174-9447

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v39.3727

Keywords: Astacidea, Hoploparia, Metanephrops, Nephropoidea, Marambio Group

Abstract

A new species of nephropid lobster, Hoploparia echinata sp. nov., from the James Ross Island in the Antarctic Peninsula is here described and illustrated. The material was collected in the Santa Marta Formation (Santonian–-Campanian), the basal unit of the Marambio Group, Larsen Basin, located in the western portion of the Antarctic Peninsula. Hoploparia echinata sp. nov. can easily be differentiated from its congeners by the presence of distinct short spines on dorsal and ventral margins on the third maxillipeds, merus of the chelipeds and pereopods; these are the characters not described in other Hoploparia species so far.

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