Synalpheus parfaiti Coutière, 1898

Anker, Arthur, Pachelle, Paulo P. G., Grave, Sammy De & Hultgren, Kristin M., 2012, 3598, Zootaxa 3598 (1), pp. 1-96 : 63

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3598.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5462493

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scientific name

Synalpheus parfaiti Coutière, 1898
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Synalpheus parfaiti Coutière, 1898 View in CoL View at ENA

( Fig. 42 View FIGURE 42 )

Synalpheus laevimanus var. Parfaiti Coutière 1898: 191 View in CoL ; Coutière 1899: 145, fig. 138.

Synalpheus parfaiti View in CoL — Coutière 1909: 64, fig. 37; Balss 1914: 101; Balss 1916: 19; Holthuis 1951: 88, fig. 18; Rossignol 1962: 131; Crosnier & Forest 1965: 607; Crosnier & Forest 1966: 287, fig. 27.

Not Synalpheus laevimanus var. parfaiti View in CoL — Rathbun 1901: 110 (partim).

Material examined. São Tomé: 1 male, 1 ov. female, MNHN-IU-2010-4150, Ilha das Cabras , off sandy beach near lighthouse, ~ 2 m, coarse sand and rubble, rock crevices with cryptic sponges, coll. A. Anker, 08.02.2006 [fcn 06- 182*, 06-183*] ; 1 male, OUMNH. ZC.2011-07-065, Ilha Santana , rock crevices, 15–20 m, coll. N. Knowlton, F. Nunes, 09.02.2006 [fcn 06-211*] .

Description. For original description see Coutière (1898); for more detailed description and illustrations see Holthuis (1951) and Crosnier & Forest (1966).

Size range. Males, 3.3, 3.6 mm cl; female, 4.3 mm cl.

Colour in life. Pale yellow, semitransparent, chelae pale orange, darker distally; eggs greenish ( Fig. 42 View FIGURE 42 ).

Type locality. Annobón, Equatorial Guinea .

Distribution. Eastern Atlantic: Senegal; Guinea; Ghana; Cameroon; Gabon; Equatorial Guinea [ Annobón]; São Tomé and Principe ( Holthuis 1951; Crosnier & Forest 1966; present study; see map in Fig. 52 View FIGURE 52 ).

Ecology. Rocky reefs and associated hard bottom habitats; depth range: lower intertidal to at least 75 m ( Crosnier & Forest 1966); specimens are usually extracted from crevices of rocks, corals and coral rubble, and crusts of coralline algae ( Crosnier & Forest 1966); however, they most probably associated with small cryptic sponges lining these crevices (A. Anker, pers. obs.); typically in heterosexual pairs.

Remarks. Synalpheus parfaiti is the only species of the S. gambarelloides species group presently known from the tropical eastern Atlantic ( Senegal to Gulf of Guinea, see map in Fig. 53). The only other species of this group in the eastern Atlantic is S. gambarelloides ( Nardo, 1847) , which is distributed much further to the north, ranging from the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal to the eastern Mediterranean Sea (including Gibraltar, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, France, Italy, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Israel, map in Fig. 53). Thus, there seem to be no geographic overlap between these two species.

Balss, H. (1914) Ostasiatische Decapoden II. Die Natantia und Reptantia. - Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Klasse der Koniglich Baierischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 10, 1 - 101.

Balss, H. (1916) Crustacea II: Decapoda Macrura und Anomura (ausser Fam. Paguridae). In: Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas, 2, 13 - 46.

Coutiere, H. (1898) Sur quelques varietes de Synalpheus laevimanus Heller (Crust). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de

Coutiere, H. (1909) The American species of snapping shrimps of the genus Synalpheus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 36, 1 - 93.

Crosnier, A. & Forest, J. (1965) Note preliminaire sur les Alpheidae recuellis par la Calypso dans l'Atlantique oriental tropical. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 36, 602 - 610.

Crosnier, A. & Forest, J. (1966) Resultats Scientifiques des Campagnes de la Calypso . Fascicule VII. Campagne de la Calypso dans la Golfe de Guinee et aux Iles Principe, Sao Tome et Annobon (1956), et campagne aux Iles du Cap Vert (1959) (suite). 19. Crustaces decapodes: Alpheidae. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique, 44, 199 - 314.

Holthuis, L. B. (1951) The caridean Crustacea of tropical West Africa. Atlantide Report, 2, 1 - 187.

Nardo, G. D. (1847) Prospetto della fauna marina volgare del Veneto estuario con cenni sulle principali specie commestibile dell'Adriatico, ecc. Estratto dall opera: Venezue e le sue lagune, 1 - 44. Venezia.

Rathbun, M. J. (1901) The Brachyura and Macrura of Puerto Rico. United States Fish Commission Bulletin for 1900, 20, 1 - 137, pls. 1, 2.

Rossignol, M. (1962) Catalogue des crustaces decapodes brachyoures, anomoures et macroures littoraux en collection au Centre d'Oceanographie de Pointe-Noire. Cahiers de l'ORSTOM, Oceanographie, 2, 111 - 138.

Gallery Image

FIGURE 42. Synalpheus parfaiti Coutière, 1898: male and ovigerous female from São Tomé (MNHN-IU-2010-4150), on black (a) and white (b) backgrounds. Photographs by A. Anker.

Gallery Image

FIGURE 52. Presently known geographic ranges of Synalpheus hoetjesi Hultgren, Macdonald & Duffy, 2010; S. idios (Ríos & Duffy, 2007); S. kensleyi (Ríos & Duffy, 2007); S. cf. longicarpus (Herrick, 1891); S. obtusifrons Chace, 1972; S. pandionis Coutière, 1909; S. parfaiti Coutière, 1898; S. pectiniger Coutière, 1909; S. rathbunae Coutière, 1909; S. regalis Duffy, 1996; S. sanctithomae Coutière, 1909; S. scaphoceris Coutière, 1910; S. senegambiensis Coutière, 1908; S. townsendi Coutière, 1909; S. ul (Ríos & Duffy, 2007) and S. yano (Ríos & Duffy, 2007).

ZC

Zoological Collection, University of Vienna

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Synalpheus