“…In the Eastern Tropical Pacific (
ETP) this group is very well studied and it is the most diversified group of shrimps with a total of 204 species recorded in 2003 (Wicksten and Hendrickx 2003). Since then, at least 26 new species have been described in this region belonging to the genera
Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (
Anker et al 2007a;
2007b; 2009;
Anker and Pachelle 2013; 2015;
Bracken-Grissom and Felder 2014),
Bathystylodactylus Hanamura & Takeda, 1996 (Wicksten and Martin 2004),
Glyphocrangon A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (Hendrickx 2010),
Leptalpheus Williams, 1965 (
Anker 2011;
Salgado-Barragán et al 2014;
Anker and Lazarus 2015a),
Leslibetaeus Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann, 2006 (
Anker et al 2006),
Lysmata Risso, 1816 (Anker et al 2009),
Ogyrides Stebbing, 1914 (
Ayón-Parente and Salgado-Barragán 2013),
Pontonia Latreille, 1829 (Marin and Anker 2008),
Prionocrangon Wood-Mason,1891 in Wood-Mason and Alcock 1891 (
Hendrickx and Ayón-Parente 2012),
Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 (
Anker and Lazarus 2015b),
Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888 (
Hermoso and Alvarez 2005; Hermoso-Salazar and Hendrickx 2006),
Triacanthoneus Anker, 2010 (
Anker 2010) and
Typton Costa, 1844 (
Ayón-Parente et al 2015). Despite the knowledge of caridean species recorded in the
ETP, there remains a lack of knowledge about the biogeography, distribution and ecology of the group (Hendrickx and Wicksten 2011), particularly regarding infaunal and lagoon species.…”