First finding of the shrimp genus Harperalpheus Felder & Anker, 2007 in the eastern Pacific, with description of a new species from Bahía Málaga, Colombia (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Alpheidae)

Arthur Anker; Juan Felipe Lazarus

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4329.2.7

First finding of the shrimp genus Harperalpheus Felder & Anker, 2007 in the eastern Pacific, with description of a new species from Bahía Málaga, Colombia (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Alpheidae)

Zootaxa. 2017 Oct 3;4329(2):196-200. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.2.7.

Authors

Arthur Anker¹, Juan Felipe Lazarus

Affiliation

¹ Universidade Federal de Goiás, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Avenida Esperança s/n, Campus Samambaia, ICB5, CEP 74690-900, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.. arthuranker7@gmail.com.

PMID: 29242493
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.2.7

Abstract

A new infaunal species of the rare alpheid genus Harperalpheus Felder & Anker, 2007 is described from Bahía Málaga, Pacific coast of Colombia, based on single, incomplete holotype specimen. Harperalpheus leptodactylus sp. nov. may be easily separated from the western Atlantic type species and only other species of the genus, H. pequegnatae Felder & Anker, 2007, by several morphological characters on the first and fifth pereiopod, as well as on the antennular peduncle.

Keywords: Crustacea, Caridea, alpheid shrimp, infauna, mudflat, Pacific Ocean.

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution
Animal Structures
Animals
Brazil
Colombia
Decapoda*