New records and description of two new species of carideans shrimps from Bahia Santa Maria-La Reforma lagoon, Gulf of California, Mexico (Crustacea, Caridea, Alpheidae and Processidae).

ABSTRACT: Two new species of the family Alpheidae: Alpheus margaritaesp. n. and Leptalpheus melendezensissp. n. are described from Santa María-La Reforma, coastal lagoon, SE Gulf of California. Alpheus margaritaesp. n. is closely related to A. antepaenultimus and A. mazatlanicus from the Eastern Pacific and to A. chacei from the Western Atlantic, but can be differentiated from these by a combination of characters, especially the morphology of the scaphocerite and the first pereopods. Leptalpheus melendezensissp. n. resembles L. mexicanus but can be easily differentiated because L. melendezensissp. n. has the anterior margin of the carapace broadly rounded and has only one spine on the mesial margin of i

SUBMITTER: Salgado-Barragan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5523213 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature