Alpheus alcyone De Man, 1902

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, Zootaxa 4544 (4), pp. 479-504 : 481

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Alpheus alcyone De Man, 1902: 870 ; Nobili, 1906: 32; Banner, 1966b: 107; Banner & Banner, 1982:110.

Alpheus aculeipes Coutière, 1905: 892 .

Alpheus crinitus Bate, 1888: 548 .

Material examined. PG: 1 male ( ZUTC 6728 ), Hormuz I., on dead corals, Coll. A. Dehghani and H. Ashrafi, 10 May 2016 ; GO: 2 males, 2 ovig. females ( ZUTC 6728 ), Chabahar Bay , Tis, on dead corals, Coll. A. Sari, 2 Oct. 2016 .

Regional records. PG: UAE ( Nobili 1906), Iran (present study); GO: Iran (present study).

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: from the PG to Japan, Marshall, Caroline, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa Islands.

Habitat. Associated with living corals and in passageways of dead sponge; from lower intertidal to over 3 m deep.

Remarks. Alpheus alcyone was recorded from the PG ( UAE) by Nobili (1906). Our PG material agrees with Banner & Banner’s (1982) descriptions. The only difference was observed in the second legs. Banner & Banner (1982) noted that the second carpal segment of the second leg varies from 2 to 3 times as the length of the first segment, while in our freshly collected material this value is 1.5 with no variations.

References

Banner, A. H. & Banner, D. M. (1966 b) Contributions to the knowledge of the alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Part X. Collections from Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. Pacific Science, 20, 145 - 188.

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

Bate, C. S. (1888) Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by the Challenger during the years 1873 - 76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Foyage of H. M. S. ' Challenger' during the years 1873 - 76, 24, i-xc + 1 - 942, pls. 1 - 157.

Coutiere, H. (1905) Marine Crustaceans. Les Alpheidae. XV. (Plates LXX-LXXXVII et Texte-Figures 127 - 139). In: Gardiner, J. S. (Ed.), The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes. 2 (4). University Press, Cambridge and London, pp. 852 - 921.

De Man, J. G. (1902) Die von Herrn Professor Kukenthal im Indiscen Archipel gesammelten Dekapoden und Stomatopoden. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 25, 466 - 929. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10409

Nobili, G. (1906) Diagnoses preliminaires de Crustaces, Decapodes et isopods nouveaux receuillis par M. le Dr G. Seurat aux iles Touamotou. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 12, 256 - 270. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 4097