Latreutes mucronatus
Creators
- 1. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus Samambaia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas-ICB- 5. Av. Esperança, s / n., 74690 - 900, Goiâ-
- 2. Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX 1 3 PW, United Kingdom https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2437 - 2445
Description
Latreutes mucronatus (Stimpson, 1860)
(Fig. 6)
Latreutes mucronatus Stimpson, 1860: 27; Hayashi & Miyake 1968: 16, figs. 3a–b, 4; Ledoyer 1969: 365, pl. 6, figs. 1A–11A; Ghani & Tirmizi 1991: 320, figs. 1–5; De Grave 2007: 147.
Material examined. Kuwait: 4 ov. females, OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.025, Failaka Island, 29°23.409’N 48°23.927’E, intertidal, under rocks and amongst seaweeds, leg. S. De Grave & Z. Sattari, 03.x.2019 [fcn KUW-055].
General distribution. Indo-West Pacific, from the western and northern Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Arabian Gulf, Pakistan, etc.) to Japan; within the Arabian Gulf previously recorded only from the UAE (De Grave 2007) and now Kuwait (present study).
Ecology. Intertidal to shallow subtidal; typically in seaweed and seagrass beds, but also reported as an associate of jellyfishes (Scyphozoa) (Hayashi & Miyake 1968).
Remarks. All Kuwaiti specimens harbour three post-orbital teeth, which is in accordance with material from Madagascar (Ledoyer 1969) and Pakistan (Ghani & Tirmizi 1991), contrasting to specimens from elsewhere in the species’ geographical range. This fact, together with disparity in ecological data (seaweed or seagrass vs. jellyfish symbiosis), may imply that L. mucronatus could be a species complex. The colour pattern of this species appears to be extremely variable, apparently due to camouflage / background matching (Fig. 6).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- OUMNH, ZC
- Event date
- 2019-10-03
- Family
- Hippolytidae
- Genus
- Latreutes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Stimpson
- Species
- mucronatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2019-10-03
- Taxonomic concept label
- Latreutes mucronatus (Stimpson, 1860) sec. Al-Kandari, Anker, Hussain, Al-Yassen, Sattari & Grave, 2020
References
- Stimpson, W. (1860) Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione as Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republic Federata missa, Cadwaladore Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars VIII, Crustacea Macrura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1860, 22 - 47.
- Hayashi, K. I. & Miyake, S. (1968) Three caridean shrimps associated with a medusa from Tanabe Bay, Japan. Publications from the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 16, 11 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 175493
- Ledoyer, M. (1969) Les Caridea de la frondaison des herbiers de phanerogames de la region de Tulear (Republique Malgache). Etude systematique et Ecologique. Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume, 6, 299 - 349.
- Ghani, N. & Tirmizi, N. M. (1991) Range extension of a hippolytid shrimp (Decapoda, Caridea) Latreutes mucronatus in Pakistani waters, northern Arabian Sea. Crustaceana, 61, 320 - 322. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 156854091 X 00227
- De Grave, S. (2007) Notes on some shrimp species (Decapoda: Caridea) from the Persian Gulf. Annalen Des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 108 B, 145 - 152.