Morphological and molecular evidence support four new Liberonautes Bott, 1955 (Decapoda, Potamonautidae, Liberonautinae) species of freshwater crabs from Sierra Leone, West Africa-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Morphological and molecular evidence support four new Liberonautes Bott, 1955 (Decapoda, Potamonautidae, Liberonautinae) species of freshwater crabs from Sierra Leone, West Africa

Published:2024-08-15 Issue:5-9 Volume:97 Page:709-731
ISSN:0011-216X
Container-title:Crustaceana
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Short-container-title:Crustac.

Author:

Mvogo Ndongo Pierre A.¹²³^ORCID,von Rintelen Thomas²^ORCID,Clark Paul F.⁴^ORCID,Cumberlidge Neil⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Département de Gestion des Écosystèmes Aquatiques, Institut des Sciences Halieutiques, Université de Douala à Yabassi, P.O. Box. 7236 Douala-Bassa, Cameroun

2. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany

3. Unit of Biodiversity Discovery and Conservation, Cameroon Association for Research on Crustaceans and others Aquatic Resources, P.O. Box. 43 OBALA, Cameroon

4. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.

5. Department of Biology, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 49855-5376, U.S.A.

Abstract

Abstract Four new Liberonautes species of freshwater crabs are described from material collected during an expedition to the rainforests of Sierra Leone, West Africa. Liberonautes kasonko sp. nov., L. njala sp. nov., L. schubarti sp. nov. and L. sugarloaf sp. nov. are recognized based on a combination of morphological characters including the carapace, adult male chelipeds, and first gonopods, and on genetic evidence involving analyses of partial segments of the mitochondrial genes of COI, 16S rRNA and 12S rRNA. Diagnoses, illustrations, and a tree of phylogenetic relationships based on mtDNA sequences, as well as a map showing the distributions of the new species are provided.

Publisher

Brill

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