Six new species and three new records of infaunal alpheid shrimps from the genera Leptalpheus Williams, 1965 and Fenneralpheus Felder & Manning, 1986 (Crustacea, Decapoda)
Author
Anker, Arthur
text
Zootaxa
2011
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1
38
journal article
46283
10.5281/zenodo.278802
275e1f6f-69ff-4f2e-a9a9-0d1cb7d286d8
1175-5326
278802
Leptalpheus
sp. 1
Figs. 18A
–E, 19A, B
Material examined.
1 female
(cl
4.9 mm
), MNHN-IU-2011-5244,
Panama
, Caribbean coast, Bocas del Toro,
Isla
Carenero, sandflat with seagrass, yabby pump,
0.5–1 m
, leg. A. Anker, J.A. Vera Caripe, J.A. Baeza,
18.11.2006
[fcn 06-600];
1 male
(cl
8.3 mm
), MNHN-IU-2011-5245,
Panama
, Caribbean coast, Bocas del Toro,
Isla
Colón,
STRI
Bay, off
STRI
station dock, seagrass flat, yabby pump,
0.5–1 m
, leg. A. Anker, B. Martínez-Guerrero,
14.08.2008
[fcn 08-241].
Remarks.
These two incomplete specimens, both missing their major chelipeds, appear to belong to a further undescribed species of
Leptalpheus
. This species may be closely related to
L. pierrenoeli
, a species described and currently known only from
Isla
Grande on the Caribbean coast of
Panama
(
Anker 2008
). The main differences observed between
Leptalpheus
sp. 1 and
L. pierrenoeli
are the more slender minor chela, with a slightly different armature on the fingers (cf.
Fig. 18
C and
Anker 2008
, fig. 2F, G); and the antennular peduncles with a distinctly longer, more slender second article, and with a shorter stylocerite, not reaching distal margin of the first article (cf.
Fig. 18A
and
Anker 2008
, fig. 1A). The colour pattern of
Leptalpheus
sp. 1 is similar to that of most other species of
Leptalpheus
, viz. semitransparent speckled with reddish chromatophores forming diffuse bands on the abdomen (
Fig. 19A
, B). Complete specimens, with the diagnostic major cheliped, are needed to conclude about the identity of this species.