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Betaeus truncatus Dana 1852

Description

Betaeus truncatus Dana, 1852

Widely distributed in the southern Atlantic, with records from South Georgia, Argentina and the Falkland Islands, as well as the Eastern Pacific, from southern Peru southwards to the Magellan Straits and Cape Horn (Doflein & Balss 1912; Holthuis 1952; Boschi et al. 1992; Arntz et al. 1999; Thatje & Bacardit 2001; Marin & Anosov 2014); intertidal to 50 m.

Notes

Published as part of D'Acoz, Cédric D'Udekem & Degrave, Sammy, 2018, A new genus and species of large-bodied caridean shrimp from the Crozet Islands, Southern Ocean (Crustacea, Decapoda, Lipkiidae) with a checklist of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic shrimps, pp. 201-240 in Zootaxa 4392 (2) on page 222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1195302

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Alpheidae
Genus
Betaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Dana
Species
truncatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Betaeus truncatus Dana, 1852 sec. D'Acoz & Degrave, 2018

References

  • Holthuis, L. B. (1952) Reports of the Lund University Chile Expedition 1948 - 1949. 5. The Crustacea Decapoda Macrura of Chile. Lunds Universitets Arsskrift, N. F., Avd. 2, 47 (10), 1 - 110.
  • Marin, I. N. & Anosov, S. F. (2014) Betaeus truncatus Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae) from South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean-a new sub-Antarctic record of alpheid shrimps. Arthropoda Selecta, 23 (4), 379 - 381.