"On two alpheids from Araçá (São Paulo, Brazil) with description of a new species of Leptalpheus (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae)" by Vânia R. Coelho

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On two alpheids from Araçá (São Paulo, Brazil) with description of a new species of Leptalpheus (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae)

Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (1999)

Vânia R. Coelho, Departamento de Zoologia, Institute de Biociências, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Peter C. Dworschak, Dritte Zoologische Abteilung, Naturhistorisches Museum, Austria

Abstract

Sampling for infaunal decapods from a tidal flat at Praia do Araçá (São Sebastião, São Paulo) has yielded two members of the family Alpheidae, one representing a new species of the genus Leptalpheus WILLIAMS, 1965. Leptalpheus axianassae sp.n. is described from sixteen specimens taken from burrows of the thalassinid Axianassa australis RODRIGUES & SHIMIZU 1992 with which it is associated. The second species, Automate evermanni RATHBUN, 1901 was also collected with a yabby pump at this tidal flat, but never together with the thalassinid.

Keywords

Leptalpheus,
new species,
Automate evermanni,
Axianassa australis,
Brazil,
tidal flat,
association

Disciplines

Marine Biology

Publication Date

1999

Citation Information

Vânia R. Coelho and Peter C. Dworschak. "On two alpheids from Araçá (São Paulo, Brazil) with description of a new species of Leptalpheus (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae)" Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Vol. 101 B (1999) p. 475 - 488
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