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Issue: Vol. 4750 No. 2: 11 Mar. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-03-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.2.11
Page range: 277–285
Abstract views: 79
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Alpheus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) from the Arabian Sea, Kerala, India

Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, U. K.
Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram 695581, Kerala, India
School of Industrial Fisheries, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Fine Arts Avenue, Cochin 682 016, India
Crustacea Decapoda Alpheidae Alpheus new species India

Abstract

A new species of Alpheus, A. samudra nov. sp., is described from the bycatch of trawlers operating between 275–375 m depth on the Quilon Bank (Kerala, India). The new species belongs to the brevirostris group, but can be easily distinguished from all but one species, by the extremely laterally compressed major cheliped. Alpheus samudra nov. sp. is very similar to A. leptocheles Banner & Banner, 1975 in the form of the major cheliped, but the proportions of the fingers to the palm and the shape of the fingers easily separate both species.

 

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