Biography

Alejandro Villalobos Figueroa, Mexican carcinologist (Pochutla, Oaxaca State 31 March 1918 – Veracruz State 23 October 1982)

His Doctoral thesis, Los cambarinos de la fauna mexicana (Crustacea Decapoda) (1955) was the first monograph about the Cambaridae family in the world being translated into English by Horton Hobbs Jr. in 1983

DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA

Genus

Archaeatya 1960

Species

Ankylocythere barbouri 1974 with Hobbs Jr.

Archaeatya chacei 1960

Atya ortmannioides 1956

Bogidiella tabascensis 1961

Cambarellus alvarezi 1951

Cambarellus lermensis 1943

Cambarellus patzcuarensis 1943

Cambarellus prolixus 1981 with Hobbs Jr.

Cambarelus zampoalensis 1943

Macrobrachium acanthochirus 1966

Palaemon lindsayi 1974 with Hobbs Jr.

Paracambarus ortmanni 1949

Paracambarus tlapacoyanensis 1947

Procambarus acanthophorus 1949

Procambarus caballeroi 1944

Procambarus erichsoni 1950

Procambarus gonopodocristatus 1958

Procambarus hoffmanni 1944

Procambarus hortonhobbsi 1950

Procambarus llamasi 1954

Procambarus mirandai 1954

Procambarus niveus 1964 with Hobbs Jr.

Procambarus regiomontanus 1954

Procambarus riojai 1944

Procambarus roberti 1974 with Hobbs Jr.

Procambarus teziutlanensis 1947

Procambarus vasquezae 1954

Procambarus veracruzanus 1954

Procambarus zapoanensis 1954

Procambarus zihuateutlensis 1950

Spelaeomysis quinterensis 1951

Troglomexicanus perezfarfantae 1971

Subspecies

Cambarellus montezumae lermensis 1943

Cambarellus montezumae zempoalensis 1943

Procambarellus ruthveni zapoapensis 1954

HONORS

Subgenus Villalobosus Holthuis 1972 (Crustacea)