First report of partial albinism in the blue lobster Panulirus inflatus (Bouvier, 1895) from the Mexican Pacific (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palinuridae)

By

Landa Jaime, Victor
Aguilar Palomino, Bernabe
Michel-Morfin, Jesus Emilio
Saucedo Lozano, Mirella

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

784

Pages

1-6

Subjects

Crustaceans , Eastern Tropical Pacific , Palinuridae , spiny lobster , western America

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.784.25082

 

Abstract

The first case of partial albinism registered in the Mexican Pacific by the blue lobster Panulirusinflatus is presented. The specimen was collected on the southern coast of Jalisco know as Punta “El Estrecho”. It constitutes one of the few registered cases of albinism in invertebrates from the Eastern Tropical Pacific.