Alpheus estuariensis Christoffersen, 1984

Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, Zootaxa 1553, pp. 1-45 : 12

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.178168

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249149

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scientific name

Alpheus estuariensis Christoffersen, 1984
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Alpheus estuariensis Christoffersen, 1984 View in CoL

Material examined (N=1). 1f, 07/VIII/2005, St. 0 5 ( MZUESC #655).

Distribution. Florida, Mississippi to Texas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Curaçao, and Brazil (from Ceará to Paraná). Eastern Pacific – Concepción Bay (Gulf of California), Costa Rica, Panama, Málaga Bay ( Colombia) ( Christoffersen 1984; Martínez-Iglesias et al. 1996).

Ecological notes. Estuarine species inhabiting sandy and muddy bottoms, in burrows, sometimes found among rocks, oysters, and mangrove roots. Intertidal to 22 m ( Christoffersen 1984).

Previous records in Bahia. Almeida et al. (2006).

Almeida, A. O., Coelho, P. A., Santos, J. T. A. & Ferraz, N. R. (2006) Crustaceos decapodos estuarinos de Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil. Biota Neotropica, 6 (2), (http: // www. biotaneotropica. org. br / v 6 n 2 / pt / abstract? inventory + bn 03406022006)

Christoffersen, M. L. (1984) The western Atlantic snapping shrimps related to Alpheus heterochaelis Say (Crustacea, Caridea), with the description of a new species. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 35 (19), 189 - 208.

Martinez-Iglesias, J. C., Rios, R. & Carvacho, A. (1996) Las especies del genero Alpheus (Decapoda: Alpheidae) de Cuba. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44 (3), 401 - 429.

MZUESC

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Alpheus