Alpheus paracrinitus Miers 1881

• Main Authors: Almeida, Alexandre O., Boehs, Guisla, Araújo-Silva, Catarina L., Bezerra, Luis Ernesto A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Alpheidae; Alpheus; Alpheus paracrinitus; Christoffersen; Miers; Pacific; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5099455; https://zenodo.org/record/5099455

Alpheus cf. paracrinitus Miers, 1881 (Fig. 2 D) Alpheus paracrinitus Miers, 1881: 365, pl. 16, fig. 6. Material examined. 1 f, 02.VIII. 2008, Cairú, Moreré Beach, Boipeba Island, MZUESC 1296. Distribution. Western Atlantic—Bermuda, West Indies, Panama and Brazil (Paraíba and Espírito Santo). Central Atlantic—Ascension Island. Eastern Atlantic—Cape Verde to Gulf of Guinea and Angola. Eastern Pacific and Indo-West Pacific (Crosnier & Forest 1966; Chace 1972, 1988; Banner & Banner 1982; Kim & Abele 1988; Manning & Chace 1990; Christoffersen 1998). Ecological notes. The single specimen was collected in the intertidal zone in crevices of coral rubble, at a salinity of 39 psu. Previous records. None. Remarks. The variation in the color patterns as well as preliminary molecular data indicate that A. paracrinitus , previously considered to be a pantropical species (Crosnier & Forest 1966; Chace 1972, 1988; Banner & Banner 1982; Kim & Abele 1988), is in fact a species complex (Knowlton & Mills 1992; Anker 2001; Williams et al. 2001; A. Anker, in study). The single specimen from southern Bahia has narrow reddish transverse bands on the carapace and abdomen and red-brownish-white mottled major chela (Fig. 2 D). Its taxonomic identity cannot be established until the entire A. paracrinitus complex is revised (A. Anker, pers. comm.) : Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre O., Boehs, Guisla, Araújo-Silva, Catarina L. & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto A., 2012, Shallow-water caridean shrimps from southern Bahia, Brazil, including the first record of Synalpheus ul (Ríos & Duffy, 2007) (Alpheidae) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-35 in Zootaxa 3347 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214608 : {"references": ["Miers, E. J. (1881) On a collection of Crustacea made by Baron Hermann-Maltzan at Goree island, Senegambia. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (5) 8, 204 - 220, 259 - 281, 364 - 377.", "Crosnier, A. & Forest, J. (1966) Crustaces Decapodes: Alpheidae. In: Campagne de La Calypso dans de Golfe de Guinee et aux Iles Principe, Sao Tome et Annobon (1956), et campagne aus Iles du Cap Vert (1959) (suite). Parte 19, Resultats Scientifiques des Campagnes de la Calypso, 7 (27). Annales de l'Institute Oceanographique, Monaco, 44, 199 - 314.", "Banner, D. M. & Banner, A. H. (1982) The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III. The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum, 34 (1), 1 - 357.", "Kim, W. & Abele, L. G. (1988) The Snapping Shrimp Genus Alpheus from the Eastern Pacific (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 454, 1 - 119.", "Manning, R. B. & Chace, Jr., F. A. (1990) Decapod and Stomatopod Crustacea from Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 503, 1 - 91.", "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, p. 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.", "Anker, A. (2001) Two new species of snapping shrimps from the Indo-Pacific, with remarks on colour patterns and sibling species in Alpheidae (Crustacea: Caridea). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 49 (1), 57 - 72.", "Williams, S. T., Knowlton, N., Weigt, L. A. & Jara, J. A. (2001) Evidence for Three Major Clades within the Snapping Shrimp Genus Alpheus Inferred from Nuclear and Mitochondrial Gene Sequence Data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 20 (3), 375 - 389."]}