Aegla chilota, new species of anomuran freshwater crab from Chiloé Island, western Patagonia

Abstract We describe a new species of freshwater crab, Aegla chilota, from two small streams at Yaldad Bay, in the southern end of Chiloé Island, western Patagonia. The new taxon is distinguished from the remaining Chilean species of Aegla Leach, 1820 by the following morphological diagnostic features: rostrum neatly triangular, short, scarcely surpassing eyes; orbital sinus wide, shallow, limited by tiny extra-orbital spine and wide extra-orbital sinus; carpal lobe prominent, triangular, tipped by at least two coalescent acute conical scales; second abdominal epimeron little produced, armed ...