Leptalpheus axianassae Dworschak & Coelho, 1999

Paulo P. G. Pachelle, Arthur Anker, Cecili B. Mendes & Luis E. A. Bezerra, 2016, Decapod crustaceans from the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil: an updated checklist of marine and estuarine species, with 23 new records, Zootaxa 4131 (1), pp. 1-63 : 10

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( Figure 6 A, B)

Leptalpheus axianassae Dworschak & Coelho 1999: 477 , figs. 1–30.

Material examined. Brazil, Ceará: 1 male, MZUSP 33457, Paracuru, Rio Curu estuary, mud flat, in burrow, suction pump, coll. P.P.G. Pachelle & H. Matthews-Cascon, 29.iv. 2014 [fcn PP 14 -044].

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (Florida) and Brazil (Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia , São Paulo) ( Felder et al. 2003; Almeida et al. 2012; present study).

Remarks. Leptalpheus axianassae lives in burrows of the axianassid mud-shrimp, Axianassa australis Rodrigues & Shimizu, 1992 (see below). Our single specimen of L. axianassae was collected without the host; however, several specimens of A. australis were extracted from surrounding burrows in the collecting area. The pale reddish colouration of L. axianassae ( Fig. 6 A, B) is typical for members of the genus Leptalpheus Williams 1965 .

References

Dworschak, P. C. & Coelho, V. R. (1999) On two alpheids from Araca (Sao Paulo, Brazil) with a description of a new species of Leptalpheus (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museum in Wien, 101 B, 475 - 488.

Felder, D. L., Nates, S. F. & Robles, R. R. (2003) Hurricane Mitch: impacts of bioturbating crustaceans in shrimp ponds and adjacent estuaries of coastal Nicaragua. Open File Report 03 - 179, 1 - 70.

Rodrigues, S. A. & Shimizu, R. M. (1992) Description of a new Axianassa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea) from Brazil, and its first larval stage. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 105, 317 - 323.

Williams, A. B. (1965) Marine decapod crustaceans of the Carolinas. Fisheries Bulletin, 65, 1 - 298.