Alpheus pachychirus Stimpson, 1860

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 : 489

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:94D88B54-FDE2-4E4B-8E29-CE91B0192E0B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255806

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/730587B4-FF87-3C11-FF06-FCC7FF68FBB5

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scientific name

Alpheus pachychirus Stimpson, 1860
status

 

Alpheus pachychirus Stimpson, 1860 View in CoL

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Alpheus pachychirus Stimpson, 1861: 30 View in CoL ; De Man, 1890:116; Ortmann, 1890: 487; Cowles, 1913: 121.

Material examined. PG: 1 male ( ZUTC 6681 ), Abu-Musa I., on dead coral, Coll. A. Dehghani, 10 May 2016 .

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: from Red Sea, PG, and India to the Philippines.

Regional records. PG: Iran (present study).

Habitat. In dead coral heads and live sponges; from lower intertidal to over 3 m.

Remarks. Alpheus pachychirus seems to be either a morphologically variable species or a species complex ( Anker & De Grave, 2016). Therefore, there is a need for special taxonomic treatment using diverse character analyses.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Alpheus

Loc

Alpheus pachychirus Stimpson, 1860

Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza 2019
2019
Loc

Alpheus pachychirus

Ortmann, A. 1890: 116
Ortmann, A. 1890: 487
1890
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