Synalpheus sanctithomae Coutiere 1909
Description
Synalpheus sanctithomae Coutière, 1909
Synalpheus sanctithomae Coutière 1909: 61, fig. 35; Christoffersen, 1979: 352, figs. 29, 30; Gore 1981: 152; Dardeau 1984: 104; Christoffersen 1998: 363; Abele & Kim 1986: 202, 220, 221, figs. d, e; Rodríguez 1986: 208, fig. 49; Coelho Filho 2006: 9; Alves et al. 2008: 50; Souza et al. 2011: 48.
Zuzalpheus sanctithomae— Ríos & Duffy 2007: 62, pl. 5.
Synalpheus laevimanus longicarpus— Rathbun 1901: 110 (partim) (not S. longicarpus Herrick, 1891).
Material examined. Brazil: 1 ovig. female, MZUSP 34144, Trindade Island, Enseada dos Portugueses, off SECON, 20°30’20.9.3”S– 29°18’43.7”W, depth: 10.2 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 22.xi.2014; 1 male, 1 ovig. female, MZUSP 34139, Trindade Island, Enseada do Príncipe, Ilha Sul, 20°31’34.3”S – 29°19’27.9”W, depth: 17.6 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 06.xi.2014; 1 male, 1 ovig. female, MZUSP 34136, Trindade Island, Enseada do Príncipe, Ilha Sul, 20°31’34.3”S – 29°19’27.9”W, depth: 22.2 m, in sponge growing within calcareous algae, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 10.vii.2015; 2 males, 2 ovig. females, MZUSP 34137, same collection data; 2 males, 1 ovig. female, OUMNH.ZC. 2016.02.0 17, same collection data. Size of largest male: cl 3.8 mm (MZUSP 34139); largest female: cl 3.5 mm (MZUSP 34144).
Additional (extra-limital) material examined. Brazil: 1 male, 1 ovig. female, MZUSP 32025, REVIZEE— Comissão Central sta. 7BT(025), Rio de Janeiro, off Macaé, Almirante Saldanha Seamount, 22º23’S – 37º35’W, depth: 105 m, 08.ii.1996.
Description. See Coutière (1909) for original description and illustrations, Christoffersen (1979) for additional figures, and Ríos & Duffy (2007) for a colour photograph.
Distribution. Western Atlantic: Florida; throughout Caribbean Sea; Brazil: Pernambuco to Bahia, Atol das Rocas, Almirante Saldanha Seamount, Trindade Island (Christoffersen 1979; Gore 1981; Rodríguez 1986; Ríos & Duffy 2007; present study).
Ecology. Coral reefs and other hard bottom habitats rich in porous rocks, clumps of calcareous algae, sponges; obligate associate of a variety of sponges (e.g., in the western Caribbean Sea: Hymeniacidon, Agelas, Hyattella, Lissodendoryx) (Ríos & Duffy 2007); typical depth range: 1–20 m, exceptionally to 105 m (present study).
Remarks. Synalpheus sanctithomae is a relatively distinctive species of the S. gambarelloides group, most easily recognisable by a short rostral carina and the presence of a distinct bump on the mesial side of the major chela pollex. The present material extends the previously known southern distribution limit of S. sanctithomae from Bahia southeastwards to Trindade Island off Espírito Santo and further south to Almirante Saldanha Seamount off Rio de Janeiro.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Alpheidae
- Genus
- Synalpheus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Coutiere
- Species
- sanctithomae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Synalpheus sanctithomae Coutiere, 1909 sec. Anker, Tavares & Mendonça, 2016
References
- Coutiere, H. (1909) The American species of snapping shrimps of the genus Synalpheus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 36, 1 - 93. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.36 - 1659.1
- Christoffersen, M. L. (1979) Decapod Crustacea: Alpheoidea. Campagnes de la Calypso au large des cotes Atlantiques de l'Amerique du Sud (1961 - 1962). I. Resultats Scientifiques de la Campagne de la Calypso, 11, 297 - 377.
- Gore, R. H. (1981) Three new shrimps, and some interesting new records of decapod Crustacea from a deep-water coral reef in the Florida Keys. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 94, 135 - 162.
- Dardeau, M. (1984) Synalpheus shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae). I. The gambarelloides group, with a description of a new species. Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises, 7, 1 - 125.
- Christoffersen, M. L. (1998) Malacostraca. Eucarida. Caridea. Crangonoidea and Alpheoidea (Except Glyphocrangonidae and Crangonidae). In: Young, P. S. (Ed.), Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Serie Livros 6, pp. 351 - 372.
- Abele, L. G. & Kim, W. (1986) An illustrated guide to the marine decapod crustaceans of Florida. Technical Series, Department of Environmental Regulations, 8 (parts 1 + 2), 760 pp.
- Rodriguez, B. (1986) Los camarones (Crustacea; Decapoda; Natantia) del Parque Nacional Archipielago de los Roques. Trabajo especial de grado para optar al titulo de Licenciado en Biologia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, 350 pp.
- Coelho Filho, P. A. (2006) Checklist of the decapods (Crustacea) from the outer continental shelf and seamounts from Northeast of Brazil - REVIZEE Program (NE III). Zootaxa, 1184, 1 - 27.
- Alves, M. L., Ramos-Porto, M. & Viana, G. F. S. (2008) Checklist of the decapods (Crustacea) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil. Zootaxa, 1881, 43 - 68.
- Souza, J. A. F., Schwamborn, R., Barreto, A. V., Farias, I. D., Fernandes, L. M. G. & Coelho, P. A. (2011) Marine and estuarine shrimps (Dendrobranchiata, Stenopodidea, and Caridea), of Pernambuco state (Brazil) and northeastern Brazilian oceanic islands. Atlantica, 33, 33 - 63. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5088 / atl. 2011.33.1.33
- Rios, R. & Duffy, J. E. (2007) A review of the sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp from Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, with description of Zuzalpheus, new genus, and six new species. Zootaxa, 1602, 1 - 89.
- Rathbun, M. J. (1901) The Brachyura and Macrura of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 20, 1 - 127.