Synalpheus herricki Coutière, 1909

Hultgren, Kristin M., Iii, Kenneth S Macdonald & Duffy, Emmett, 2011, Sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps (Alpheidae: Synalpheus) of Barbados, West Indies, with a description of a new eusocial species, Zootaxa 2834, pp. 1-16 : 6

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Material examined. Barbados: 2 ovigerous females, 4 non-ovigerous individuals ( VIMS 08BR8101–5), Cluff Reef, from Aiolochroia crassa . 2 ovigerous females, 4 non-ovigerous individuals ( VIMS 08BR1501–2, 1601, 2101–2), Spawnee Reef, from A. crassa . 1 ovigerous female, 5 non-ovigerous individuals ( VIMS 08BR8901–3), Thunder Bay, from A. crassa . Largest ovigerous female, CL 6.46 mm, largest non-ovigerous individual, CL 5.33 mm.

Color. In Barbados S. herricki had a drab, non-descript body color; ovigerous females had grass-green to brownish-green developing ovaries and embryos.

Hosts and ecology. In Barbados, S. herricki only occurred in the common sponge Aiolochroia crassa .

Distribution. Florida ( Coutière 1909); Gulf of Mexico ( Coutière 1909; Dardeau 1984); Belize ( Ríos & Duffy 2007), Curaçao (Hultgren et al. 2010); possibly Brazil ( Christoffersen 1998).

Remarks. Many of the S. herricki collected in Barbados were juveniles. Some individuals had abdominal bopyrid parasites.