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Issue: Vol. 2734 No. 1: 7 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2734.1.5
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 50
PDF downloaded: 1

The alpheid shrimp genus Leslibetaeus Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann, 2006 in the Western Atlantic, with description of a new species from Tobago (Crustacea, Decapoda)

Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA
Crustacea Decapoda Caridea Alpheidae shrimp new species Leslibetaeus. Caribbean Atlantic Ocean

Abstract

A miniature alpheid shrimp, Leslibetaeus caribbaeus n. sp., is described on the basis of a single female specimen collected in Sandy Bay, Tobago, in 1992. The new species is closely related to L. coibita Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann, 2006 from the Pacific coast of Panama, the type species and the only other known species of Leslibetaeus Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann, 2006, differing from it in several morphological characters. With the discovery of L. caribbaeus n. sp., Leslibetaeus becomes a genus with transisthmian (= amphi-American) distribution. In addition, L. coibita is reported for the first time since original description and its range is extended by 400 km southwards. The generic diagnosis of Leslibetaeus is slightly emended.

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