Biodiversidad marina de Costa Rica: Crustacea: Decapoda (Penaeoidea, Sergestoidea, Caridea, Astacidea, Thalassinidea, Palinura) del Pacífico

 

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Autors: Vargas Castillo, Rita, Cortés Núñez, Jorge
Format: artículo original
Data de publicació:1999
Descripció:A total of 117 species of shrimp and lobster are known from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. They be­long to the Suborders Dendrobranchiata, Superfarnily Penaeoidea (26 species) and Pleocyemata, Infraorder Ca­ridea (73), Astacidea (one), Thalassinidea (13), and Palinura (four species).Twenty seven species (23%) are re­ported for the first time for Costa Rica. The distribution range of five species is extended, three of which are sig­nificant: Pontonía símplex (Holthuis, 1951) from Tenacatitán Bay. México to Culebra Bay, Guanacaste; Velero­nía serratifrons (Holthuis, 1951) from La Libertad, Ecuador to Sámara, Guanacaste and Axiopsis serratifrons (A. Milne Edwards, 1873) from Gorgona Island, Colombia to Culebra Bay, Guanacaste. Nine species, two of which are endernic, were described based on specimens collected in Costa Rica. Forty three percent of the tro­pical eastem Pacific species of shrimps are found on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
Pais:Kérwá
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Idioma:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/103470
Accés en línia:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr//index.php/rbt/article/view/19265
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/103470
https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v47i4.19265
Paraula clau:Shrimps
lobsters
Crustacea
eastem Pacific
Costa Rica
biodiversity