Alima neptuni ( Linnaeus, 1768 )

Ahyong, Shane T., 2002, Stomatopoda (Crustacea) from the Marquesas Islands: results of MUSORSTOM 9, Zoosystema 24 (2), pp. 347-372 : 362

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Alima neptuni ( Linnaeus, 1768)

Cancer neptuni Linnaeus, 1768: 45 . Type locality: Bimini, Bahamas, by neotype designation ( Holthuis 2000).

Alima neptuni – Manning & Lewinsohn 1986: 13.

Alima hyalina Leach in Tuckey, 1817: unnumbered plate in appendix IV to Tuckey ( Cape Verde Islands, 07°37’00”N, 17°34’15”W).

Squilla alba Bigelow, 1893: 103 . Type locality: Bimini, Bahamas.

Alima alba – Poupin 1998: 37.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Ua Huka, stn 24, Haahue Bay, NW coast, Ua Huka, 8°53.60’S, 139°37.00’W, fine sand with some silt, 9-15 m, X.1997, 1 postlarva tl 19 ( MNHN). — Hiva Oa, stn CP1195, 9°02.5’S, 139°58’W, 800 m, 27.VIII.1997, 1 final pelagic larva tl 40 ( MNHN).

MEASUREMENTS. — Male postlarva (n = 1) tl 19 mm, female final pelagic larva (n = 1) tl 40.

DISTRIBUTION. — All tropical oceans except the eastern Pacific. The present record is new for the Marquesas.

REMARKS

The postlarva and pelagic larva agree well with the accounts of Manning (1962) (as Squilla alba ). The postlarva differs from Manning’s (1962) account only in bearing more intermediate denticles on the telson (13-15) and six instead of five movable spines on the outer margin of the proximal segment of the uropodal exopod.

References

BIGELOW R. P. 1893. - Preliminary notes on the Stomatopoda of the Albatross collections and on other specimens in the National Museum. Johns Hopkins University Circulars 12 (106): 100 - 102.

HOLTHUIS L. B. 2000. - Nomenclatural notes on eighteenth century Stomatopoda (Hoplocarida). Journal of Crustacean Biology 20, special number 2: 12 - 19.

LINNAEUS C. 1768. - Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis locis. Stockholm, 12 th ed., 3: 1 - 236.

MANNING R. B. 1962. - Alima hyalina Leach, the pelagic larva of the stomatopod crustacean Squilla alba Bigelow. Bulletin of Marine Science and the Caribbean 13: 308 - 328.

MANNING R. B. & LEWINSOHN C. 1986. - Notes on some Stomatopod Crustacea from the Sinai Peninsula, Red Sea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 433: 1 - 19.

POUPIN J. 1998. - Crustacea Decapoda and Stomatopoda of French Polynesia. Atoll Research Bulletin 451: 1 - 62.