First Atlantic record of the rare infaunal shrimp Salmoneus erasimorum Dworschak, Abed-Navandi & Anker, 2000 (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Alpheidae)

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Authors: D’ACOZ, CÉDRIC D’UDEKEM, GULLY, FLORENCE, COCHU, MARC, ANKER, ARTHUR
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2022
• Subjects: Crustacea; Caridea; Axiidea; Salmoneus; new record; infauna; symbiosis; La Manche; France; Brittany; North-East Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5091.2.10

The rare symbiotic alpheid shrimp Salmoneus erasimorum Dworschak, Abed-Navandi & Anker, 2000 was previously known from a single specimen collected with a suction pump on the Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea, together with its host, the ghost shrimp, Gilvossius tyrrhenus (Petagna, 1792). A second record of S. erasimorum is presented here, with a diagnosis and the first colour photographs, based on a single specimen collected in northern Brittany, France, also with a suction pump, but without its host. This is also the first record of the species on the European coast of the Atlantic Ocean. An annotated list and a key to the species of Salmoneus currently known from the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea are provided.