Composition and abundance of decapod crustaceans in mixed seagrass meadows in the Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela Author Mariño, Joany Author Mendoza, María Daniela Author López-Sánchez, Beatriz text Iheringia, Série Zoologia 2018 e 2018004 2018-03-26 108 1 10 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1678-4766e2018004 journal article 10.1590/1678-4766e2018004 1678-4766 10979355 Alpheus aff. floridanus Kingsley, 1878 Diagnosis. Rostrum dorsally subcarinate. Ocular hoods not spined and messially delimited by adrostral depressions. Antennal scale without prominent tooth of lateral margin. Major first chela with dorsal and ventral margins entire, not notched. Proximal article of carpus of the second periopod shorter than second; merus of third and fourth periopods with distal end of flexor margin rectangular, not produced into prominent tooth; dactyls of the third and fourth periopods subspatulate (CHACE, 1972). Material examined. CCDGR.– ♀ ; ♂ . Measurements. CL: ♀ 9.90 mm ; ♂ 11.99 mm . Habitat. Mud or sandy muddy bottoms up to 37 m depth, in conch shells Lobatus gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) , and on seagrass beds (RODRÍGUEZ, 1980). General distribution. Tropical Atlantic.From the Gulf of Mexico to Bahia , Brazil , in the Western Atlantic; and from Guinea to Congo, in the Eastern Atlantic (RODRÍGUEZ, 1980). Distribution in Venezuela . Los Roques National Park (B. LÓpez-Sánchez, unpubl. data). Now in Paraguaná Peninsula, FalcÓn state .