Zoosyst. Evol. 98 (2) 2022, 411-425 | DOI 10.3897/zse.98.94753 yee BERLIN A new species of crayfish of the genus Cherax from Indonesian New Guinea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) Christian Lukhaup?, Rury Eprilurahman? 1 Waldstrasse 5a, 66999 Hinterweidenthal, Germany 2 Animal Systematics Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, J1. Teknika Selatan, Sekip Utara Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia https://zoobank. org/3 D6F5C84-3E90-482E-9F F9-8599D4D9IIEDC Corresponding author: Christian Lukhaup (craykeeper@gmx.de) Academic editor: Sammy De Grave @ Received 12 September 2022 # Accepted 11 October 2022 Published 24 October 2022 Abstract A new species of the genus Cherax is described and illustrated. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov., endemic to the Beraur and Klasabun River drainages in the western part of the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia, is described, figured and compared with its closest relatives, Cherax pulcher Lukhaup, 2015. The new species may be easily distinguished from Cherax pulcher by the shape of the chelae, rostrum and body, and coloration. Key Words freshwater, molecular phylogeny, morphology New Guinea, taxonomy Introduction The crayfish of the island of New Guinea were extensive- ly studied by Holthuis (1949, 1956, 1958, 1982, 1986, 1996), with additions by Lukhaup and Pekny (2006, 2008), Lukhaup and Herbert (2008), Lukhaup (2015), Lukhaup et al. (2015), Patoka et al. (2015), Lukhaup et al. (2017) and Lukhaup et al. (2018). In January 2016, the first author visited Sorong Regency and South Sorong Regency, West Papua, Indonesia, to clarify the distribution of some crayfish species present in the pet trade. During our stay in So- rong we also had the chance to visit a creek about 50 km south of the city where our guide, Irianto Wahid, and a local collector, showed us the location of Cherax species that is in the pet trade under the name Cherax boesemani “Red Brick’’. In the present contribution, this species is described as new to science. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. 1s genetically and morpholog- ically most similar to Cherax pulcher Lukhaup, 2015 from Hoa Creek, close to the village of Teminabuan in the southern-central part of the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) Peninsula. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. may be easily distin- guished from Cherax pulcher by coloration and pattern of live individuals, by the shape of the chelae, shape of rostrum and by using sequence divergence. Materials and methods Samples of Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. and C. pulcher were collected from creeks in West Papua and Papua provinces (Table 1). Holotypes and allotypes were photographed and kept alive in indoor tanks until samples were obtained for DNA analysis. After this procedure the animals were preserved in 70% ethanol. Morphometric parameters of all individuals were taken using an electronic digital caliper with an accuracy of 0.1 mm. For the molecular analyses, sequences from an additional ten species of Cherax and from two other parastacid genera used as outgroups were downloaded from GenBank (see Table 1). Material has been deposited at the Museum Zoologi- cum Bogoriense (= Bidang Zoologi) Research Centre for Biosystematics and Evolution (= Pusat Riset Biosiste- matika dan Evolusi), National Research and Innovation Copyright Lukhaup, C. & Eprilurahman, R. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unre- stricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Al2 Table 1. Material studied with GenBank accession numbers. Sequences of species represented by more than one sequence are listed consecutively as labelled in Fig. 9. Species/sample Location GenBank acc. nos col 16S C. boesemani Ajamara Lake, Papua KY654084 KY654089 Barat; 1°17'19.97'S, KY654085 KY654090 132°14'49.14"E; January 23, 2016 C. alyciae Creek, Boven Digoel Regency, MH457597 MH457588 West Papua, Indonesia; December 7, 2016 MH457599 MH457590 MH457598 MH457589 C. communis Lake Paniai - MH457602 C. gherardiae Pet trade KU821417 KU821417 C. holthuisi Papua Barat KU821419 KU821433 C. miscolicus Tomolol Misool OP712704 OP737874 OP7172705: OP737675 OP712706 OP737876 OP712707 OP737877 OP712708 - C. monticola Baliem River, Wamena, Papua KF649851 KF649851 - KJ920818 C. mosessalossa Klademak Creek, Sorong = MH457602 MH457594 City 0°52°23.59'S, MH457602 MH457595 131°16'24.40"E; January 26, 2016 C. paniaicus Lake Tage, Papua (Field KJ950528 KJ920830 collection) C. peknyi Unnamed Creek, tributary of MH457600 MH457591 Fly River, Papua New Guinea \WH457601 MH457592 MH457604 MH457596 C. pulcher Hoa Creek (Teminabuan), KY654083 KY654088 Papua Barat; 1°28'32.73'S, 132°3'54.94"E; January 23, 2016 C. snowden Oinsok (Ainsok River Drainage), KY654082 KY654087 Papua Barat; 1°11'40.07'S, 131°50'1.14"E; January 24, 2016 C. wagenknechtae Unnamed creek / Tributary to OP712702 OP737872 Sp. nov. the Beraur River /Klamono 0P712703 OP737873 C. warsamsonicus Small tributary to Warsam- KY654086 KY654091 son River 0°49'16.62'S, KU821424 KU821438 131°23'3.34'E; January 20, KU821426 KU821437 2016 Papua Barat Engaeus Crawford River, Victoria, AF493633 AF492812 strictifrons Australia Euastacus Crawford River, Victoria, AF493634 AF492813 bispinosus Australia Agency (= BRIN), Jalan Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46 Cibinong 16911, Indonesia (MZB); and the Museum fur Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodi- versity Science, Berlin (ZMB). DNA was purified from about 2 mm? of muscle tissue with a Qiagen BioSprint 96 using the manufacturer’s proto- col. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to amplify two mitochondrial gene fragments, a ~535 bp region of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene (16S) using primers 1471 and 1472 (Crandall and Fitzpatrick 1996) and a 710 bp frag- ment of the Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I gene (COI) us- ing primers LCO1490 and HCO2198 (Folmer et al. 1994). PCR was performed in 25 ul volumes containing 1x Taq buffer, 1.5 mM MgCl, 200 uM each dNTP, | U Taq polymerase, ca. 50-100 ng DNA and ddH,O. After an zse.pensoft.net Lukhaup, C. & Eprilurahman, R.: A new species of crayfish of the genus Cherax initial denaturation step of 3 min at 94 °C, cycling con- ditions were 35 cycles at 94 °C for 35 s, 45 °C (COI) or 50 °C (16S) for 60 s, and 72 °C for 1 min (COI) or 90 s (16S), with a final elongation step of 5 min at 72 °C. The same primers were used in PCR and sequencing. PCR products were sent to Macrogen Europe for purification and cycle sequencing of both strands of each gene. Sequences were aligned by eye (COI) and with MAFFT (16S) using the G-INS-i strategy suitable for thorough alignments of sequences with global homology (Katoh et al. 2002). The resulting alignments had a length of 658 bp (COD) and 542 bp (16S), respectively. To determine the best substitution model for Bayesian Inference and Maximum Likelihood analyses (see below), hierarchical likelihood ratio tests were carried out with jModelTest (Posada 2008) on both sequence sets (24 models tested). Based on the Akaike Information Criterion and the Bayesian Inference Criterion, the GTR + I+ G (COI) and the GTR + G (16S) models (BIC: HKY + I+ G and HKY + G; more complex models chosen) were selected. The two sequence datasets were subsequently analyzed both separately and combined. Phylogenetic trees were reconstructed by maximum parsimony (MP) using the heuristic search algorithm as implemented in PAUP* (Swofford 2002), with gaps treat- ed as fifth base. Support for nodes was estimated by boot- strap analysis (1,000 bootstrap replicates with 10 random addition sequence replicates each). Maximum Likelihood (ML) analyses were conducted with RAXML (Stamatakis et al. 2008; RAXML BlackBox; 100 bootstrap replicates). In addition, Bayesian inference was employed to infer phy- logeny by using MrBayes 3.2.7 (Ronquist and Huelsen- beck 2003). The MCMCMC.-algorithm was run with four independent chains for 10,000,000 generations, sample- freq=500, and burnin=10,001) using the models specified above. The combined dataset was subjected to a partitioned analysis (ML and BI) using the different models for the two genes in the BI analyses. Genetic distances were calculated using MEGA 7.0 (Kumar et al. 2016). All new sequences have been deposited in GenBank (see Table 1). Systematics Parastacidae Huxley, 1879 Genus Cherax Erichson, 1846 Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. https://zoobank.org/D2375BD1-E2C0-4CC0-B6AC-E86B3ACE8603 Figs 1-5 Material examined. Holotype: male (MZB Cru 5359), under rocks and among roots and in debris along banks of unnamed creek of the Klasabun River drainage, West Pap- ua, Indonesia. Coll. Irianto Wahid and local people. Janu- ary, 2016. GPS (1°15'59.91"S, 131°18'21.29"E) Crayfish were exported by KKCrayfish Farm in Jakarta for the pet business. Allotype: female (MZB Cru 5361), same data as holotype. Paratypes: (MZB Cru 5360), same data as holotype. Additional material (n=3) one male and two fe- Zoosyst. Evol. 98 (2) 2022, 411-425 males are deposited at the Museum fur Naturkunde, Leib- niz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin (ZMB 33781). The additional non-type material deposited in Berlin comes from local crayfish collectors who collect for the pet trade. No exact data is available on this material. Diagnosis. Carapace surface covered with scattered small tubercles, three spines posterior to cervical groove on lateral carapace present. Eyes large, pigmented. Cornea as broad as eyestalk. Rostrum lance shaped with elevat- ed, thickened margins, non-setose. Rostral margins with three prominent teeth. Posterior extensions of the rostral margins prominent. Postorbital ridges prominent with one acute spine at anterior terminus. Uncalcified patch on lateral margin of chelae of adult male, white, translucent. Propodal cutting edge with a few short setae in posterior part and one large tubercle. Chelae pinkish red, becoming dark red to black in the lateral and anterior part. Fixed fin- ger and dayctyl with hooked yellow tips anteriorly. Dorso- lateral margins of chelae slightly elevated, usually pink or creamy. Other walking legs blue-gray. Carapace and ple- on pinkish red dorsally, becoming reddish gray laterally. Description of male holotype. (Figs 2, 3) Body and eyes pigmented. Eyes not reduced, rather large; cornea globular, darkly pigmented, nearly as long as eyestalk; eyestalk slightly narrower than cornea. Body subovate, slightly compressed laterally. Pleon narrower than cepha- lothorax (width 26.7 mm and 31.3 mm respectively). Ros- trum (Fig. 3A) broad in shape, reaching the end of ultimate antennular peduncle and about three times as long than wide (width 5.9 mm at base, length 17.5 mm). Margins slightly elevated continuing tn rostral carinae on carapace, A frontal view; D. Allotype female (MZB Cru 5361). 413 almost straight in basal part, distally tapering towards apex. Lateral rostral margin bearing three prominent teeth in distal half, pointing upwards at angle of approximately 45°. A few short hairs present between the distal teeth and the acumen. Acumen with anteriorly orientated spine. Rostral carinae extending as slight elevation poste- riorly on carapace terminating at ending of postorbital ridges. Postorbital ridges well-developed, terminating in spiniform tubercle anteriorly, fading at three-fourth of occipital carapace length, posteriorly. Postorbital ridges about 1/4 of CL. Cervical and branchiocardiac grooves distinct, non-setose, three prominent and well- developed spines present behind cervical groove on lateral sides of carapace. Carapace surface smooth, ventrolateral margins rounded, slightly elevated. Areola length 20.9 mm, narrowest width 11.1 mm. Length of areola 34.7% of total length of carapace (66.3 mm). Sparsely pitted. Scaphocerite (Fig. 3D), broadest at posterior third, convex in distal part, becoming narrower in basal part; thickened lateral margin terminating in corneous spine, slightly overreaching ultimate segment of antennular peduncle. Right scaphocerite 17.5 mm long and 6.4 mm wide. Rounded inner margin strongly covered by setae. Antennulae and antennae typical for genus. Antennae slightly longer than body. Antennular peduncle slight- ly overreaching acumen, antennal peduncle slightly overreaching tip of apex of scaphocerite. Antennal pro- topodite smooth, no spine, row of hairs on inner margin; basicerite with one lateral and one ventral spine. zse.pensoft.net 414 Lukhaup, C. & Eprilurahman, R.: A new species of crayfish of the genus Cherax Figure 2. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. holotype male (MZB Cru 5359). Scale bar: 10 mm. Mouthparts typical for the genus. Epistome with sub- cordiform cephalic lobe anteriorly bearing lanceolate cephalomedian projection constricted at base. Lateral margins of lobe not thickened; each lateral margin with two groups of 10-12 tubercles separated by the smooth central part. Central part smooth, not pitted, excavate. First pereopod equal in form, chela gaping. Right chela 63.7 mm long, 11.9 mm deep, 24.5 mm wide. Left chelae (Fig. 3B, C) 65.6 mm long and 11.8 mm high, 24.4 mm wide, strongly compressed. Fingers shorter than palm (right dactylus 24.4 mm long). Dactylus broad at base (9.6 mm), tapering slightly towards tip. Tip of dactylus with sharp, corneous, hooked tooth pointing outwards at an angle slightly larger than a right an- gle to the dacty. Cutting edge of dactyl with continuous row of small granular teeth posteriorly and one prominent larger tooth at middle of cutting edge. Ventral and dorsal surface of movable finger smooth with scattered punctuation. Ven- tral posterior half of cutting edge with scattered short setae reaching from base to prominent larger tooth. Fixed finger smooth, scattered punctuation, triangular, merging gradu- ally into palm, ending in sharp, corneous. Tips of fingers slightly crossing when fingers clasp. Upper surface of palm practically smooth, slightly pitted, more densely pitted at margins. Fixed finger slightly broader as dactyl at base (11.4 mm). Dense, short setae present in posterior ventral part of fixed finger, reaching from base to about one third of dactyl and fixed finger. Cutting edge of fixed finger with row of 5 rather small granular teeth at posterior half and one prominent larger one at mid-length. Outer lateral mar- gin of chelae with swollen soft and uncalcified patch (21.7 mm on the right chelae and 21.7 on the left chelae) which extends from about middle of palm slightly overreaching zse.pensoft.net base of dactylus. Row of 12-13 mesial granules at dorso- lateral margin. Dorsolateral margins elevated. Dorsal surface of carpus (18.4 mm) smooth, with slight excavation in middle part and with a well-developed me- sial carpal spine. Ventral carpal surface distal margins slightly elevated, non-setose and with fovea; proxilateral margin with well-developed ventral carpal spine and a prominent ventromesial carpal spine oriented at an angle of approximately 45°. Merus (29.5 mm) laterally depressed in basal part; sur- face smooth; small dorsal meral spine present. Inner ven- trolateral margin densely covered with small granules, three ventral meral spines present, one at mid-length other in mid- dle of anterior part, third on distal ventrolateral inner margin. Ischium (19.5 mm) smooth with two small spines at ventrolateral inner margin. Second pereopod reaching anteriorly to approximately corneus spine of scaphocerite. Finger (8.5 mm) slightly longer than palm (6.0 mm), of same dept. A few scat- tered short setae present on dactyl and fixed finger. Cut- ting edge of fixed finger and carpus with row of dense, short setae. Carpus (12.3 mm), smooth, slightly pitted, longer than palm. Merus (20.1 mm) 1.6 times longer than carpus. Ischium (9.2 mm) about as half as long as merus. Third pereopod overreaching second by length of fin- ger of second pereopods. Fingers shorter than palm. Fourth pereopod reaching distal margin of scapho- cerite. Dactylus with corneous tip. Short scattered setae present. Propodus more than twice as long as dactylus, nearly 1.5 times as long as carpus; somewhat flattened, with many stiff setae on lower margin. Merus just slightly longer than propodus. Fifth pereopod similar to fourth, slightly shorter. Zoosyst. Evol. 98 (2) 2022, 411-425 415 A Figure 3. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. holotype male (MZB Cru 5359). A. Dorsal view of carapace; B. Dorsal view of left che- lae; C. Ventral view of left chelae; D. Scaphocerite dorsal view. Scale bars: 10 mm (A, B, C, D). zse.pensoft.net 416 Lukhaup, C. & Eprilurahman, R.: A new species of crayfish of the genus Cherax we \ ff f Z > Sey. < a Figure 4. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov., allotype female (MZB Cru 5361). Dorsal surface of pleon smooth, with scattered pits; abdominal segments (3-5) with short setae present on caudal margins of segment. Telson with posterolateral spines, dense short se- tae present in posterior third. Posterior margins setose. Uropodal protopod with two distal spines on mesial lobe. Exopod of uropod with transverse row of poste- riorly directed diminutive spines ending in one more prominent spine, posteriorly directed on outer margin of mesial lobe. Terminal half of exopod with small spines and short hairs, slightly corrugated. Endopod of uropod smooth. Short scattered hairs present on posterior third of dorsal exopod. Posterolateral spine on outer margin present. Second spine on medial dorsal surface present, directed posteriorly. Description of allotype female (Fig. 4). Chela of first pereopods equal, 2.7 times as long as broad (43.9 mm and 15.7 mm respectively). No soft patch in distal lateral margin of the chelae of females observed (n=112). Mesial margin of palm slightly elevated, forming slender serrated ridge with row of 15—16 small granular teeth. Cutting edge of dactylus with 15—16 rather small granular teeth. Cut- ting edge of fixed finger with 10-11 small granules. Small scattered short setae visible along ventral cutting edges of chelae, denser and longer in ventral posterior area. Tips of fingers slightly crossing when fingers clasp, not gaping. Cervical groove distinct, non-setose. Pleon just slightly zse.pensoft.net wider than cephalothorax (widths 25.9 mm and 25.6 mm respectively). Same color pattern as in males. Size. The biggest male examined has a carapace length of 71.5 mm, and a total length of 153 mm, the holotype male has a total length of 143 mm and the other males have a total length between 94 mm and 152 mm; the allotype has a cara- pace length of 56.6 mm and a total length of 127 mm (n=9). Color. The living animals (Fig. 8A—B) are colored as follows. Males from Klasabun River Drainage: Chelae light to dark red with pink or creamy dorsolateral margins and white patch. Anterior part usually dark blue or black, more intense colored. Corneous tooth on tip of fingers orange. Cephalothorax bright red to dark red to black, dorsally more intense, fading ventrally to light red or creamy. Segments of pleon dark red to bright red, lateral pleura lighter becoming creamy red. Walking legs blue or gray blue. Distal margin of tail-fan brownish red to orange. Animals from the village of Klamono (Beraur River Drainage) differ in the coloration of chelae. Chelae dark blue to black, sometimes creamy blue. Dorsolateral margins light creamy. These males have usually also orange or yellow rostral margins. Females: same color as males, sometimes less intense. Molecular phylogenetic results. Cherax wagen- knechtae sp. nov. is sister species to Cherax pulcher (Fig. 10), both are, in turn, sister group to C. warsam- sonicus. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. is well isolated from C. pulcher with a sequence divergence (p-distance) Zoosyst. Evol. 98 (2) 2022, 411-425 Z- a i i he - “ ~ Bese ~¥ > eas" as : gamer holotype male (MZB Cru 5359). of 3.2% (16S, Fig. 11) and 6.8% (COI, Fig. 12), respec- tively, supporting the morphology-based description of C. wagenknechtae as a new species. Deposition of types. The holotype (MZB Cru 5359), allotype (MZB Cru 5361) and paratypes (MZB Cru 5360) are deposited at the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense (= Bidang Zoologi) Reseach Centre for Biosystematics and Evolution (= Pusat Riset Biosistematika dan Evolusi), National Research and Innovation Agency (= BRIN), Jalan Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46 Cibinong 16911, Indonesia. Additional paratypes are deposited at the Museum fiir Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin (ZMB 33781). Systematic position. Munasinghe et al. (2004a, b), Austin (1996); and Austin and Knott (1996) however, identified three lineages with different geographic ranges within Cherax based on molecular genetics and phylogenetic studies. These consist of a southwestern group, an eastern group and a northern group. Support for the latter group, however, was based on only very limited sampling (e.g. single samples of C. quadricarinatus, Figure 5. Rostrum dorsal view. A. Cherax pulcher holotype male (RMNH. CRUS. D. 57217) B. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. 417 C. rhynchotus and C. peknyi in Munasinghe et al. (2003) study. Munasinghe et al. (2004b) indicate that the division of Cherax into two subgenera, as conceived by Holthuis and subsequent authors dealing with New Guinea crayfish has to be reconsidered. Based on Munasinghe et al. (2004a, b), Austin (1996), and Austin and Knott (1996). Cherax wagenknechtae sp.nov. belong to the northern species group lineage now consisting of 26 species: Cherax acherontis Patoka, Blaha & Kouba, 2017, Cherax albertisii (Nobili, 1899), Cherax alyciae Lukhaup, Eprilurahman & von Rintelen, 2017, Cherax boesemani Lukhaup & Pekny, 2008, Cherax boschmai Holthuis, 1949, Cherax buitendijkae Holthuis, 1949, Cherax communis Holthuis, 1949, Cherax gherardii Patoka, Blaha & Kouba, 2015, Cherax holthuisi Lukhaup & Pekny, 2006, Cherax lorentzi aruanus (Roux, 1911), Cherax lorentzi lorentzi (Roux, 1911), Cherax longipes Holthuis, 1949, Cherax misolicus Holthuis, 1949, Cherax murido Holthuis, 1949, Cherax monticola Holthuis, 1950, Cherax mosessalossa Lukhaup, Eprilurahman & von Rintelen, 2017, Cherax minor Holthuis, 1996, zse.pensoft.net 418 Lukhaup, C. & Eprilurahman, R.: A new species of crayfish of the genus Cherax Cherax peknyi Lukhaup & Herbert, 2008, Cherax pallidus Holthuis, 1949, Cherax papuanus Holthuis, 1949, Cherax paniaicus Holthuis, 1949, Cherax pulcher Lukhaup, 2015, Cherax solus Holthuis, 1949, Cherax snowden Lukhaup, Panteleit & Schrimpf, 2015, Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. (this study), and Cherax warsamsonicus Lukhaup, Eprilurahman & von Rintelen, 2017. Systematic remarks In comparison to all species of the northern group the new species, C. wagenknechtae sp. nov. 1s most similar to C. pulcher, a species that is known from the Hoa Creek drainage, close to the City of Teminabuan, Papua New Guinea. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. 1s known to be endemic in the drainage of Beraur and Klasabun River in Western part of the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) peninsula, while C. pulcher is found in Hoa creek and some other nameless creeks in and around Teminabuan, South Sorong in the eastern part of the type location of C. wagenknechtae Sp. nov. separated by a straight distance of approximately 55.73 km measured using Google earth software. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. differs from C. pulcher in the following characters: shape of the chelae (Fig. 9A— D), shape of the rostrum (Fig. 5A, B) and in coloration (Fig. 8A—C). The middle prominent tooth in the cutting edge of the dactyl of C wagenknechtae is larger than C. pulcher. Cherax wagenknechtae has a bright color of the inner lateral ridge of the propodus compare to C. pulcher. The rostrum of Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. is slightly broader and longer compared to C. pulcher. Postorbital ridges of C. wagenknechtae fading at three-fourth of occipital carapace length, posteriorly while C. pulcher fading at two-thirds of occipital carapace length, posteriorly. Morphometric measurements comparison for C. wagenknechtae sp. nov. and C. pulcher is provided in Table 2. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. chelae has usually light to dark red with pink or creamy dorsolateral margins and white patch. Anterior part usually dark blue or black, more intense colored. Corneous tooth on tip of fingers or- ange while C. pulcher chelae has light blue to dark blue, decalcified swollen area in distal part of the lower margin white or cream coloration. Individuals of Cherax wagen- knechtae from the Beraur River drainage usually have a wine red to blackish red chelae with black fingertips, the carapace is red to brownish red as well as the pleon. The elevated dorsolateral margins of the chelae are pinkish to creamy. Individuals from the Klasabun River drainage have a similar body coloration that often changes in the rostrum and scaphocerite to creamy with some slightly bluish or gray. Chelae are creamy with blue becoming blu- ish gray to the outer lateral margin. Fingertips dark blue to black. The elevated dorsolateral margins are creamy. The coloration of Cherax pulcher is as follows. Chelae light blue to dark blue, becoming white on the outer lat- eral margins. The elevated dorsolateral margins are blue. Anterior part of the cephalothorax pinkish to striking pink zse.pensoft.net fading laterally to a greenish-gray. Dorsal pleon dark blue to black becoming pinkish gray and pinkish to the mar- gins. Older individual usually darker blue in coloration. Etymology. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. is named after Sahra Wagenknecht, an outstanding German left- wing politician, economist, author and publicist. She inspired the first author to fight determinedly for a better and fairer future for us all. This is the best way we know to thank her for her much appreciated service and effort to represent the socially disadvantaged, her fight for free- dom, peace and a rare talent to unite morals and politics. Ecology. Endemic to the Beraur and Klasabun Riv- er drainages in the western part of the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) peninsula (Fig. 6). One of the creeks harbor- ing these crayfish is shallow (20-100 cm) with a moder- ate flow and had a pH of approximately 5.5. The tempera- ture is around 25—26 °C. In most parts no water plants are present. The substrate of the creek is silt or sand and soil mostly covered with silt and detritus. (Fig. 7). Crayfish hide in short burrows in the riverbank, under larger rocks or in detritus that is present in all the parts of the creek. Big males have been observed as active during the day. In some villages these crayfish are harvested for food by locals but it seems that even if they are collected for the pet trade and for some villages for human consumption, the population is stable. The creek is surrounded by dense forest. To improve the knowledge of the distribution of the species more field surveys will be necessary. Common name. As a common name for this crayfish we propose Red Brick Crayfish as it is already available under this name in the pet trade. Table 2. Morphometric measurements comparison for C. wagenknechtae sp. nov. and C. pulcher examined in the pres- ent study showing means, standard deviation, minimum and maximum. All measurements are in millimeters (mm). Characters C. wagenknechtae C. pulcher male female male female Chela lenght 53.34+8.5 40.7+7.3 49.7417.9 n/a (43.2-65.7) (28.6-48.1) (24.3-73) Chela broad 21.242.9 15.142.2 20.9+7.7 n/a (17.6-25.1) (11.7-17.9) (10.3-28.6) Chela high 9.4+1.2 7,341.3 10.7+2.1 n/a (8.2-11.2) (5.1-8.2) (7.8-12.8) Ratio Chela 2.6+0.3 2.7+0.2 2.4+0.1 n/a (2.4-3.1) (2.4-2.9) (2.3-2.5) Rostrum lenght 14.245.8 13.741.9 13.3+2.9 n/a (11.6-15.3) (12.3-15.1) (8.7-16.6) Rostrum broad 5.9+0.5 5.3+1.1 4.9+1.3 n/a (5.2-6.5) (3.8-7.1) (2.9-7.1) Ratio rostrum 2.25+0.9 2.6+0.3 2.7+0.4 n/a (1.9-2.6) (2.3-2.9) (2.2-3.3) Areola broad middle 10.64+1.7 11.4+1.9 8.6+2.7 n/a (8-13.2) (8.7-14.3) (5-12.4) Pleon 67.748.3 67.447.3 59.1+7.0 n/a (56-77.5) (57.1-77.8) (51-70) Carapace broad 25.643.7 24.943.7 23.847.2 n/a (20-31.2) (19.1-29.5) (14.8-34) Carapace lenght 59.8+4.7 52.7+6.6 59.1+10.5 n/a (53.1-65.2 (43.5-58.7) (46-71.7) Ratio Carapace / 1.2+0.5 1.2+0.1 1.05+0.1 n/a Pleon (1.15-1.17) (1.16-1.19) § (1-1.1) Zoosyst. Evol. 98 (2) 2022, 411-425 419 a CHERAX WAGENKNECHTAE Figure 6. The Bird’s Head Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia with the drainage of Beraur and Klasabun River drainages, indicated. Red bars = distribution area. “4 i _ ’ id * =" als +o a ‘ Lt =! + pa ids ioe 3 % gnelas fey, | a) iO r nT a f Figure 7. Unnamed Creek in the Beraur River drainage, habitat of the new species. zse.pensoft.net 420 Lukhaup, C. & Eprilurahman, R.: A new species of crayfish of the genus Cherax Figure 8. Coloration comparison Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. with Cherax pulcher. A. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. from Beraur River drainage; B. Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. from Klasabun river drainage; C. Cherax pulcher from Hoa Creek in Teminabuan. Figure 9. Chelae comparison Cherax pulcher and Cherax Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. A. Dorsal view of right chelae of Cherax pulcher, B. Dorsal view of left chelae of Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov.; C. Ventral view of right chelae of Cherax pulcher, D. Ven- tral view of left chelae of Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. zse.pensoft.net Zoosyst. Evol. 98 (2) 2022, 411-425 421 Cherax misolicus #1 1 Cherax misolicus #2 99 100 Cherax misolicus #3 Cherax misolicus #4 C. monticola C. alyciae sp. nov. #1 /| 1 FC. alyciae sp. nov. #2 94 ‘ ot C. alyciae sp. nov. #3 it C. peknyi #1 oy fC. peknyi #3 si C. peknyi #2 C. paniaicus 1 C. holthuisi con 98 C. snowden C. gherardiae et 4 1 C. mosessalossa #1 al C. mosessalossa #2 4 a6 C. warsamsonicus #1 99 * C. warsamsonicus #2 - C. warsamsonicus #3 , C. pulcher ONE ‘MD ‘ C. wagenknechtae n.sp. #1 C. wagenknechtae n.p. #2 0.06 1 C. boesemani #1 e7 C. boesemani #2 / / 2 Engaeus Strictifrons Euastacus bispinosus Figure 10. Phylogenetic relationships of Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. within the northern New Guinea Cherax lineage, recon- structed by BI analyses of two mitochondrial gene fragments. Number on branches show, from top, Bayesian posterior probabilities (>0.9) and ML/MP bootstrap values (>70). An asterisk indicates nodes with full support (1/100/100) in all analyses. The scale bar indicates the substitution rate. See Table 1 for information on the sequenced specimens. zse.pensoft.net 422 Lukhaup, C. & Eprilurahman, R.: A new species of crayfish of the genus Cherax C. alyciae sp. nov. #1 0.941 “ C. alyciae sp. nov. #2 C. alyciae sp. nov. #3 98 C. peknyi #1 Ar C. peknyi #3 99 C. peknyi #2 C. communis 99 . . C. paniaicus Cherax misolicus #1 Cherax misolicus #2 100 5 A Cherax misolicus #3 Cherax misolicus #4 0.99 C. monticola C. gherardiae C. mosessalossa #1 C. mosessalossa #2 C. warsamsonicus #1 C. warsamsonicus #2 C. warsamsonicus #3 C. pulcher C. wagenknechtae n.sp. #1 100 C. wagenknechtae n.sp. #2 C. boesemani #1 C. boesemani #2 C. snowden C. holthuisi Euastacus bispinosus MCE ala 100 i ee Engaeus Strictifrons 0.04 Figure 11. Phylogenetic relationships of Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. within the northern New Guinea Cherax lineage, recon- structed by BI analyses of a fragment of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene. Number on branches show, from top, Bayesian posterior probabilities (>0.9) and ML/MP bootstrap values (>70). An asterisk indicates nodes with full support (1/100/100) in all analyses. The scale bar indicates the substitution rate. See Table 1 for information on the sequenced specimens. zse.pensoft.net Zoosyst. Evol. 98 (2) 2022, 411-425 423 Cherax misolicus #5 Cherax misolicus #2 6 Cherax misolicus #3 Cherax misolicus #4 Cherax misolicus #1 C. monticola C. alyciae sp. nov. #1 es C. alyciae sp. nov. #2 100 C. alyciae sp. nov. #3 C. peknyi #1 zs C. peknyi #3 C. peknyi #2 C. paniaicus C. holthuisi — 97 C. snowden C. gherardiae C. mosessalossa #1 | C. mosessalossa #2 C. warsamsonicus #1 1 C. warsamsonicus #2 C. warsamsonicus #3 C. pulcher 97 Cl. wagenknechtae n.sp. * #1 C. wagenknechtae n.sp. #2 C. boesemani #1 98 a4 C. boesemani #2 Euastacus bispinosus Engaeus strictifrons 0.08 Figure 12. Phylogenetic relationships of Cherax wagenknechtae sp. nov. within the northern New Guinea Cherax lineage, re- constructed by BI analyses of a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 gene. Number on branches show, from top, Bayesian posterior probabilities (>0.9) and ML/MP bootstrap values (>70). An asterisk indicates nodes with full support (1/100/100) in all analyses. 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