Reinstatement and redescription of Lebbeus armatus (Owen, 1839), long synonymized with L. groenlandicus (Fabricius, 1775), and description of one new species from the southwestern Sea of Okhotsk, Hokkaido, Japan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Thoridae)

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Author: KOMAI, TOMOYUKI
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2015
• Subjects: Lebbeus magnificus n. sp.; Kitami-Yamato Bank; Crustacea; Okhotsk; Pacific; Yamato; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.3905.4.1; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3905.4.1

The caridean shrimp species Lebbeus armatus (Owen, 1839) (Thoridae), originally described from Kamchatka, is reinstated from the synonymy of L. groenlandicus (Fabricius, 1775) and redescribed. It is easily distinguished from L. groenlandicus by having dense covering of short setae on the carapace an...