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Issue: Vol. 5507 No. 4: 16 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5507.4.5
Page range: 579-588
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Alpheus midas sp. nov., a new western Atlantic snapping shrimp from the A. armillatus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 species complex (Decapoda: Alpheidae)

Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC); Departamento de Biologia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemática; Uso e Conservação da Biodiversidade (PPGSis); Campus do Pici; Fortaleza; CE; Brazil; Associação de Pesquisa e Preservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos (Aquasis); Projeto Aves Migratórias; Caucaia; Ceará; Brazil
Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL); Instituto de Biologia (IB); Departamento de Ecologia; Zoologia e Genética (DEZG); Capão do Leão; RS; Brazil
Crustacea Caridea Alpheus alpheid shrimps new taxon West atlantic

Abstract

A new snapping shrimp, Alpheus midas sp. nov., is described based on two male specimens caught at a depth of 15–20 m off the coast of Ceará, north-eastern Brazil. The new species belongs to the A. armillatus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 species complex and is most closely related to the western Atlantic A. amarillo Anker, 2012 and A. punctatus Anker, 2012, and the eastern Pacific A. scopulus Kim & Abele, 1988, but can be distinguished from each of them by a suite of subtle morphological and/or colour pattern characters.

 

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