Leptalpheus mexicanus, Rios & Carvacho, 1983

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 : 698

aff. mexicanus in Table 1).

LEPTALPHEUS PACIFICUS

This species is presently known only from Oahu, Hawaii (type locality: Pearl Harbor) ( Banner & Banner 1974), and from Toliara (Tuléar), Madagascar ( Banner & Banner 1983). The latter record needs confirmation. The authors stated that the chelipeds of the single female (TL 7 mm) were more slender, with the large cheliped being 6.3 times as long as broad (4.4 times in the types of L. pacificus ) and the small chela 5.6 times as long as broad (5.0 in the types), and suggested that “the small size of the specimen probably account for the different proportions”. Unfortunately, this specimen ( L. cf. pacificus A in Table 1) was not located in the collections of the MNHN, where it was originally deposited ( Banner & Banner 1983).

LEPTALPHEUS AXIANASSAE AND L. PETRONII