Leptalpheus felderi, Anker & Vera Caripe & Lira, 2006

Anker, Arthur, Vera Caripe, Jonathan A. & Lira, Carlos, 2006, Description of a new species of commensal alpheid shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the southern Caribbean Sea, Zoosystema 28 (3), pp. 683-702 : 687

Leptalpheus forceps species group

This species group corresponds to Leptalpheus s.s. (sensu Williams 1965a) and includes at least 10 species from the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific: L. forceps , L. mexicanus , L. felderi n. sp. and several undescribed species (L. spp. 1-4 aff. forceps , L. spp. 5-6 aff. mexicanus , and L. sp. 11 in Table 1). In the western Atlantic, the L. forceps group is represented by at least six species and ranges from North Carolina (one species) to Florida (three species), Gulf of Mexico (at least three species) and Caribbean (at least four species), extending further south to Brazil (one or more species). In the eastern Pacific, it is represented by at least four species ranging from the central Gulf of California (one species) to Nicaragua (three species) and further south to Colombia (one species).