Leptalpheus axianassae, Dworschak & Coelho, 1999

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 : 688

Leptalpheus axianassae species group

This species group includes the remaining species, L. axianassae (= L. petronii , see below) from the western Atlantic (Florida to Brazil), and possibly three further Leptalpheus spp. from the Pacific coast of Nicaragua ( Felder et al. 2003; L. spp. 8-10 in Table 1).

DEFINITION (BASED ON FEATURES

OF L. AXIANASSAE )