Description of a new deep-water species of Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 from the Gulf of Mexico (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Authors: ANKER, ARTHUR, NIZINSKI, MARTHA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2011
• Subjects: Crustacea; Caridea; Alpheidae; Alpheus; Gulf of Mexico; western Atlantic; deep-water reefs; new species; Pacific; Christoffersen; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2925.1.5; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2925.1.5

A new deep-water species of the snapping shrimp genus Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 is described from two offshore localities in the northern Gulf of Mexico, south of Louisiana. Alpheus lentiginosus n. sp. belongs to the A. macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835) species group and is most closely related to the wes...