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The article examines the crustacean periclimenes platalea, a type of shrimp, and discusses the first recorded discovery of the creature in the Western Atlantic. The author describes the activities of carcinologist Lipke Holthuis who found the periclimenes platalea in the region of the Cape Verde Islands and off the coast Guinea. The article explains the similarities between the periclimenes platalea discovered by Holthuis and those found by one of the authors during researches in the waters of Tobago in the Caribbean.