Revision of the Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850 complex, with redescription of A. formosus and description of a new species from the tropical western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1707, 2008, Pages 1-22

  Anker, Arthur ^a,b   Hurt, Carla ^a,d   Knowlton, Nancy ^a,c,e  

^a Institute Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales   (Panama)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpheidae; Alpheus; Barcode; Caribbean; COI; Color pattern; Eastern Pacific; Molecular phylogeny; New species; Snapping shrimp; Transisthmian species; Western Atlantic

Indexed keywords

ALPHEIDAE; ALPHEUS; ALPHEUS FORMOSUS; ALPHEUS PANAMENSIS; BALAENICEPS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 40149091437     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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