dc:title"Revision of the Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850 complex, with redescription of A. formosus and description of a new species from the tropical western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)";
dc:description"FIGURE 7. Color patterns of species of the Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850 complex: Alpheus panamensis Kingsley, 1878 [a, b]; A. formosus Gibbes, 1850 [c – e]; A. paraformosus n. sp. [f – h]: a, male from Río Mar, Panama (USNM 1100693); b, ovigerous female from La Chorrera, Panama (not preserved); c, male from Isla Grande, Panama (USNM 1100700); d, ovigerous female from Cahuita, Costa Rica (USNM 1100698); e, neotype female from Big Pine Key, Florida Keys (USNM 1100697); f, g, paratype ovigerous female from Bocas del Toro, Panama (USNM 1100705); h, holotype male from Bocas del Toro, Panama (USNM 1100703).";
dc:description"FIGURE 1. Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850, male from Atol das Rocas, Brazil (MNRJ 20755): a, frontal region, dorsal; b, same, lateral; c, same, detail of orbital hoods, rostrum and first segment of antennular peduncle; d, second pereiopod, lateral; e, third pereiopod, lateral; f, telson and uropod, dorsal (fringing setae on uropod omitted); g, uropod, distal region of exopod and endopod, dorsal (setae omitted). Scale bars = 1 mm.";
dc:description"FIGURE 5. Alpheus paraformosus n. sp., holotype male from Bocas del Toro, Panama (USNM 1100703) [a – j]; paratype female from Bocas del Toro, Panama (USNM 1100704) [k]: a, frontal region, dorsal; b, same, lateral; c, scaphocerite, dorsal; d, third maxilliped, lateral; e, second pereiopod, lateral; f, third pereiopod, lateral; g, second pleopod, detail of appendix interna and appendix masculina; h, uropod, dorsal (setae omitted); i, distal margin of endopod (setae omitted); j, telson, dorsal; k, rostrum and orbital hoods, dorsal. Scale bars = 1 mm.";
dc:description"FIGURE 2. Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850, male from Atol das Rocas, Brazil (MNRJ 20755): a, major cheliped, lateral; b, same, distal portion of chela, mesial; c, same, detail of ischium, merus and carpus, mesial. Scale bar = 1 mm.";
dc:description"FIGURE 4. Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850, neotype female from Big Pine Key, Florida Keys (USNM 1100697): a, frontal region, dorsal; b, major cheliped, mesial; c, same, detail of distomesial tooth; d, minor chela and carpus, mesial; e, detail of distolateral spine of uropod, dorsal. Scale bars = 1 mm.";
dc:description"FIGURE 3. Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850, male from Atol das Rocas, Brazil (MNRJ 20755): a, minor cheliped, lateral; b, same, chela, mesial; c, distal portion of chela, lateral; d, same, detail of ischium, merus and carpus, mesial. Scale bar = 1 mm.";
