Alpheus cf. formosus Gibbes, 1850

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 : 13

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249153

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scientific name

Alpheus cf. formosus Gibbes, 1850
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Material examined (N=2). 1f, 29/VIII/2004, St. 0 5 ( MZUESC #706).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, and from North Carolina through Caribbean to Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, and from Ceará to São Paulo) ( Christoffersen 1998).

Ecological notes. Sand flats with Porites and other corals, seagrass flats with abundant coral rubble, rockstudded beaches, seawalls, wrecks, exposed and submerged reefs, Phragmatopoma reefs; rarely in sponges or bryozoan ( Schizoporella ) colonies, in crevices of corals or coral rubble, under rocks. Intertidal to 42 m ( Chace 1972; Christoffersen 1979, 1980; A. Anker, pers. comm.).

Previous records in Bahia. Gomes Corrêa (1972), Christoffersen (1979).

Remarks. Species complex, with at least two species in the western Atlantic ( Knowlton & Mills 1992).

Gomes Correa, M. M. (1972) Contribuicao ao conhecimento da fauna do Arquipelago de Abrolhos, Bahia, Brasil. 2 - Lista preliminar de crustaceos decapodos. Boletim do Museu de Historia Natural, Zoologia, Belo Horizonte, 15, 1 - 19.

Chace Jr., F. A. (1972) The shrimps of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions with a summary of the West Indian shallow-water species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 98, 1 - 179.

Christoffersen, M. L. (1979) Decapod Crustacea: Alpheoida. Campagne de la Calypso au large des cotes atlantiques de l'Amerique du Sud (1961 - 1962). I. 36, Annales de l'Institute Oceanographique, Monaco, (Suppl.), 55, 297 - 377.

Christoffersen, M. L. (1980) Taxonomia e distribuicao dos Alpheoida (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia) do Brasil, Uruguai e norte da Argentina, incluindo consideracoes sobre a divisao do sul do continente em provincias biogeograficas marinhas. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 467 pp.

Christoffersen, M. L. (1998) Malacostraca. Eucarida. Caridea. Crangonoidea and Alpheoidea (Except Glyphocrangonidae and Crangonidae). In: Young, P. S. (Ed.), Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 351 - 372.

Knowlton, N. & Mills, D. K. (1992) The systematic importance of color and color pattern: evidence for complexes of sibling species of snapping shrimp (Caridea: Alpheidae: Alpheus) from the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Panama. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 18, 1 - 5.

MZUESC

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Alpheus