Notes on two species of Processa (Decapoda: Processidae) from the Mexican Pacific

• Main Authors: Manuel Ayón-Parente, Michel E. Hendrickx, Eduardo Ríos-Jara
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Carcinologia
• Series: Nauplius
• Subjects: caridea; mexican pacific; processa hawaiensis; p. peruviana
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-64972012000100007&lng=en&tlng=en

Material belonging to the genus Processa, held in the Regional Marine Invertebrates Collection in Mazatlán, Mexico, is revised including specimens of the widely distributed P. peruviana, and the scarcely collected P. hawaiensis. For comparative purposes with the specimens from Hawaii and other localities, a detailed description of a male of P. hawaiensis collected in continental Mexico is provided, including illustrations of all appendages. Small differences are noted with previous description and partial redescriptions of this species, including proportion between propodus and dactylus of the fourth pereopod, and between merus and carpus of the right cheliped. In addition, the shape and setation of the first pair of pleopods in the Mexican material differs from the description of P. hawaiensis based on African material.