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Alpheus splendidus Coutiere 1897

Description

Alpheus splendidus Coutière, 1897

(Fig. 6F)

Alpheus splendidus Coutière, 1897a: 235; De Man, 1924: 41; 1929: 23; Crosnier & Forest, 1966: 361; Banner & Banner, 1982: 56; Chace, 1988: 54; Anker & De Grave, 2016: 368.

Material examined. PG: 1 male, 1 female (ZUTC 6672) Hormuz I., under large boulder, Coll. A. Sharifi, 4 Dec. 2015; 3 males (ZUTC 6670), Abu-Musa I., under large boulder, Coll. A. Dehghani, 10 May 2016; GO: 1 male, 1 female (ZUTC 6671), Chabahar Bay, Tis, under large boulder, Coll. A. Dehghani, 2 Oct. 2016.

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea, PG, GO, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia and Southern China.

Regional records. PG and GO: Iran (present study).

Habitat. This species was collected from sandy-boulder shores and under dead corals and boulders in lower intertidal to 3 m deep.

Remarks. Anker & De Grave (2016) recorded two color patterns for this species in Singapore and mentioned it as a cryptic or pseudo-cryptic species in the Indo-West Pacific. However, the specimens of current study show uniformity in the color pattern and mostly agree with material from Singapore figured by Anker & De Grave (2016: fig. 29c).

Notes

Published as part of Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza, 2019, Annotated checklist of the snapping shrimps of the genus Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran, pp. 479-504 in Zootaxa 4544 (4) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2618475

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZUTC
Material sample ID
ZUTC 6670 , ZUTC 6671 , ZUTC 6672
Event date
2015-12-04 , 2016-05-10 , 2016-10-02
Verbatim event date
2015-12-04 , 2016-05-10 , 2016-10-02
Scientific name authorship
Coutiere
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Alpheidae
Genus
Alpheus
Species
splendidus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Alpheus splendidus Coutiere, 1897 sec. Dehghani, Sari & Naderloo, 2019

References

  • Coutiere, H. (1897 a) Note sur quelques especes du genre Alpheus du Musee de Leyde. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 19, 195 - 207.
  • De Man, J. G. (1924) On a collection of macrurous decapod Crustacea, chiefly Penaeidae and Alpheidae from the Indian Archipelago. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A, 90, 1 - 60.
  • Crosnier, A. & Forest, J. (1966) Resultats Scientifiques des Campagnes de la " Calypso ". Fascicule VII. Campagne de la Calypso dans la Golfe de Guinee et aux Iles Principe, Sao Tome et Annobon (1956), et campagne aux Iles du Cap Vert (1959) (suite). 19. Crustaces decapodes: Alpheidae. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique, Monaco, 44, 199 - 314.
  • Banner, D. M. & Banner, A. H. (1982) The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum, 34, 1 - 357. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.34.1982.434
  • Chace, F. A. Jr. (1988) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910, Part 5: family Alpheidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 466, 1 - 99.
  • Anker, A. & De Grave, S. (2016) An updated and annotated checklist of marine and brackish caridean shrimps of Singapore (Crustacea, Decapoda). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 34, 343 - 454.