Alpheus balaenodigitus Banner & Banner, 1982

Ashrafi, Hossein, Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza, 2020, An updated checklist of caridean shrimps of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Zootaxa 4747 (3), pp. 521-534 : 522

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.3.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DB42E60-B8A4-43F6-A39A-37B7013FA2A4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3703880

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3D7887D9-FFB1-BB4E-788B-D654FB20FD8A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Alpheus balaenodigitus Banner & Banner, 1982
status

 

Alpheus balaenodigitus Banner & Banner, 1982 View in CoL

Material. 1 female & 2 males ( ZUTC 6853 ), Abu-Musa Island, Persian Gulf, 25°53’12”N, 55°02’10”E, 04.05.2016, coll. A. Dehghani & H. Ashrafi. GoogleMaps

Habitat and habit. The specimens were found in a rocky tidal pool and in dead coral branches.

General distribution. Indian Ocean and Australia.

Remark. These three specimens agree with Banner & Banner’s (1982) descriptions except that they noted margin of rostrum bearing six short setae, while no setae is seen in the Persian Gulf’s materials.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Alpheus

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