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
3041
1
38
journal article
46283
10.5281/zenodo.278802
275e1f6f-69ff-4f2e-a9a9-0d1cb7d286d8
1175-5326
278802
Leptalpheus
sp. 4
Material examined.
1 specimen
of unkown sex (pleopods damaged, cl
3.5 mm
),
USNM
221794,
Aruba
, west end of Commandeurs Bay,
0.5 m
, leg. R. Lemaitre, 0 1.1987 [det. R. Lemaitre as
Salmoneus arubae
(Schmitt)
].
Remarks.
This specimen from
Aruba
is missing its major cheliped and therefore cannot be positively identified. The frontal margin is somewhat produced anteriorly, similar to
L. pierrenoeli
(cf.
Anker 2008
) or
Leptalpheus
sp. 2. (
Fig. 18
F). The second article of the antennular peduncle is distinctly longer than wide, longer that the first or the third. The ventromesial carina of the first article of the antennular article is terminated anteriorly by a simple, non-bifid, similar to that of
L. marginalis
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 1
E) and
L. forceps
. The third pereiopod is slender as in
Leptalpheus
sp. 1, but has a small spiniform seta on the ischium. The cutting edges of the minor chela fingers are serrated with small triangular teeth. The diaeresis of the uropodal exopod has no tooth or sharp angle lateral to the mesial incision; this angle is rather rounded as in
Leptalpheus
sp. 1 (
Fig. 18
E). Complete specimens from Commandeurs Bay in
Aruba
are needed to elucidate the identity of this presumably undescribed species. Noteworthy, this is the first record of
Leptalpheus
for
Aruba
and the former
Netherlands Antilles
.