Salmoneus alvarezi Anker & Lazarus, 2015

Anker, Arthur, 2019, The eastern Pacific species of Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955, with description of a remarkable new species from Las Perlas Archipelago, Panama (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Alpheidae), Zootaxa 4651 (1), pp. 125-140 : 137

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4651.1.8
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scientific name	Salmoneus alvarezi Anker & Lazarus, 2015
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Salmoneus alvarezi Anker & Lazarus, 2015 View in CoL

Salmoneus alvarezi Anker & Lazarus 2015: 521 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , figs. 1–3.

Salmoneus ortmanni — Ríos & Carvacho 1983: 462 View in CoL ; Ríos 1992: 7 [not S. ortmanni ( Rankin, 1898) View in CoL ].

Material examined. 1 ovigerous specimen (cl ~ 2.7 mm), LACM CR1980-183.1, Costa Rica, Playa Tarcoles, intertidal, leg. R.C. Brusca, 22.02.1980.

Description. See Anker & Lazarus (2015).

Colouration. Uniformly orange-yellow with reddish gonads or eggs ( Anker & Lazarus 2015).

Type locality. Bahía Málaga , Pacific coast of Colombia .

Distribution. Eastern Pacific: Colombia (Bahía Málaga) and Costa Rica (Nicoya Gulf).

Ecology. Intertidal and very shallow subtidal; mixed rocky-sandy or rocky-muddy shores close to mudflats and/or mangroves; typically in muddy water under larger rocks.

Remarks. Salmoneus alvarezi was previously known only from its type locality in Bahía Málaga, Colombia, as well as Punta Morales in the northern part of the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica ( Anker & Lazarus 2015). It is now also reported from Playa Tarcoles, near the famous Río Tarcoles estuary, at the entrance to the Gulf of Nicoya. So far, there have been no records of S. alvarezi from the Pacific coast of Panama, where its presence is more than likely, or north of Costa Rica.