Leptalpheus aff. forceps Williams, 1965

Almeida, Alexandre O., Boehs, Guisla, Araújo-Silva, Catarina L. & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto A., 2012, Shallow-water caridean shrimps from southern Bahia, Brazil, including the first record of Synalpheus ul (Ríos & Duffy, 2007) (Alpheidae) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 3347, pp. 1-35 : 15

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.214608

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5099465

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scientific name

Leptalpheus aff. forceps Williams, 1965
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Leptalpheus aff. forceps Williams, 1965 View in CoL

( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A–D)

Material examined. 1 m, 07.V.2008, Canavieiras, Patipe River, MZUESC 1240.

Comparative material. L. forceps ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 E–G), 1 m, 1 f, 21.IV.2004, North Bridge, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA, MNHN-Na-15682.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Brazil ( Bahia ) (present study).

Ecological notes. The single specimen was collected from a burrow of unknown host in mud, at a salinity of 3 psu.

Previous records. None.

Remarks. The specimen collected (CL= 2.7 mm) was compared with L. forceps from Florida. The Bahian specimen differed from the Florida specimens in the dentition of the major chela (cf. Figs. 5 View FIGURE 5 D, G) and in the proportions of the articles of the antennular peduncle (cf. Figs. 5 View FIGURE 5 A, E). More material of this possibly undescribed species is needed to confirm its identity.

MZUESC

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Leptalpheus

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