Cherax (Astaconephrops) pulcher, a new species of freshwater crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) Peninsula, Irian Jaya (West Papua), Indonesia

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A new species, Cherax ( Astaconephrops) pulcher sp. n., from Hoa Creek, close to the village Teminabuan in the southern-central part of the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia, is described, figured and compared with the morphologically closest species, Cherax boesemani Lukhaup & Pekny, 2008.

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Freshwater Crustacea Decapoda of New Guinea

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Zookeys

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Zookeys

Journal ID (publisher-id): ZooKeys

Title: ZooKeys

Publisher: Pensoft Publishers

ISSN (Print): 1313-2989

ISSN (Electronic): 1313-2970

Publication date Collection: 2015

Publication date (Electronic): 4 May 2015

Issue: 502

Pages: 1-10

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[1 ]Waldstrasse.5a, 66999 Hinterweidenthal, Germany

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Corresponding author: Christian Lukhaup ( craykeeper@ 123456gmx.de )

Academic editor: S. De Grave

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DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.502.9800

PMC ID: 4443586

SO-VID: a0350a67-0837-4684-803b-fef5c13ebb04

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Date received : 16 April 2015

Date accepted : 22 April 2015

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