The alpheid shrimp genus Leslibetaeus Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann, 2006 in the Western Atlantic, with description of a new species from Tobago (Crustacea, Decapoda)
Author
Anker, Arthur
text
Zootaxa
2011
2734
63
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.276572
af72ae2d-b43b-450f-b74f-3bdef5676353
1175-5326
276572
Leslibetaeus coibita
Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann, 2006
(
Fig. 3
)
Leslibetaeus coibita
Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann 2006
: 30
, figs. 1–5.
Material examined.
1 ovigerous female (CL
3.35 mm
),
OUMNH
.ZC. 2010-01-004,
Panama
, Pacific coast, Taboga Island, intertidal, under rocks, coll. A. Anker, field collection number 07-038,
19 February 2007
.
Description.
See
Anker
et al.
(2006)
.
Colour pattern.
Semitransparent with clusters of red chromatophores on antennal and antennular peduncles and abdominal somites; ovaries and eggs yellow (
Fig. 3
A, B); generally very similar to the colour pattern illustrated for the
type
specimen (
Anker
et al.
2006
: fig. 5).
Habitat.
The Taboga specimen was found in the rocky intertidal close to coral heads (
Pocillopora
), under a large rock in sticky sand. It was extracted from a relatively narrow tunnel with lined walls, possibly a burrow of a polychaete or another burrowing invertebrate.
Type
locality.
Coibita
, Coiba Archipelago, Pacific coast of
Panama
.
FIGURE 3.
Leslibetaeus coibita
Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann, 2006
, ovigerous female (CL 3.35 mm) from Taboga Island, Pacific coast of Panama (OUMNH.ZC. 2010-01-004): A, B, general view and colour pattern, dorsal and lateral; C, third pereiopod, lateral; D, same, detail of small spiniform seta on ischium.
Distribution.
Presently known only from two localities, the islands of
Coibita
and Taboga, both on the Pacific coast of
Panama
. The present record extends the range of
L. coibita
by about
400 km
southwards.
Remarks.
The Taboga specimen agrees with the
type
specimens of
L. coibita
from Coiba in all aspects, except for the presence of a small spiniform seta on the ischium of the third pereiopod (compare
Fig. 3
C, D and
Anker
et al.
2006
: fig. 3o). This spiniform seta may have been overlooked by
Anker
et al.
(2006)
or alternatively, its presence may be variable in
L. coibita
. In either case, the presence of this structure in the specimen of
L. coibita
from Taboga and in the
holotype
of
L. caribbaeus
n. sp.
requires a slight emendation of the original generic diagnosis (see below). The previously unknown fifth pereiopod of
L. coibita
(missing on both sides in the
holotype
and
paratype
) is very similar to that of
L. caribbaeus
n. sp.
(see text above and
Fig. 2
D, E).
Emendation of the generic diagnosis of
Leslibetaeus
.
The original statement “Third pereiopod with ischium lacking spine; merus unarmed; carpus with distoventral spine; propodus with slender spines on ventral margin; dactylus simple” (
Anker
et al.
2006
: 29) should be replaced by the following sentence: Third pereiopod with ischium usually bearing small spiniform seta on ventrolateral surface; merus unarmed; carpus with distoventral spiniform seta; propodus with slender spiniform setae on ventral margin; dactylus conical, simple.
Note that in
Anker
et al
. (2006)
, the term “spine” was used for the same structure here referred to as spiniform seta.