Cancer hassoni Curtiss 1944
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Cancer hassoni Curtiss, 1944 [kouá]
Alpheus parvirostris Dana, 1852b: 22.
Cancer hassoni Curtiss, 1944: 29 –30, n. syn.
Curtiss (1944: 630) noted that “The Tahiti zebra shrimp … lives in the sea, among the coral … The first pair of legs are provided with pincers; the left one is larger than the right, and is shaped not much unlike that of the lobster of the North Atlantic … the body is transparent, the thorax having three black rings around it, and a broader one at the rear; the abdomen is also transparent with black rings around it. These black rings or bands cross the body, that is, they are vertical, and not lengthwise …. was seven-sixteenths of an inch in length” (Curtiss 1944: 29–30). The description of the chelipeds strongly suggests that Cancer hassoni is a species of snapping shrimp (Alpheidae). One very common and relatively small alpheid living in coral and coral rubble is known from Tahiti, Alpheus parvirostris Dana, 1852, and its colour pattern agrees extremely well with Curtiss’s description (A. Anker, personal communication).
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Biodiversity
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- Cancridae
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- Cancer
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- Animalia
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- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Curtiss
- Species
- hassoni
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cancer hassoni Curtiss, 1944 sec. Ng, Eldredge & Evenhuis, 2011
References
- Curtiss, A. (1944) Further notes on the zoology of Tahiti. Privately printed, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 30 pp.
- Dana, J. D. (1852 b) Crustacea, Part I. United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., vol. 13 (2), i - viii, 1 - 685; Atlas (1855), 1 - 27, pls. 1 - 96, C. Sherman, Philadelphia. Davie, P. J. F. (2002) Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In: Wells, A. & Houston, W. W. K. (Eds.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia, vol. 19.3 A. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 551 pp.
- Dana, J. D. (1852 a) On the Classification of the Crustacea Corystoidea; Scientific Intelligence, III. Zoology. American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2, 13 (37), 119 - 121. [also published as: Conspectus Crustaceorum, etc. Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes, U. S. N., including the Crustacea Cancroidea Corystoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 6 (3), 73 - 86]