Cancer hassoni Curtiss 1944
Cancer hassoni Curtiss, 1944 [ kouá ] Alpheus parvirostris Dana, 1852b: 22. Cancer hassoni Curtiss, 1944: 29 –30, n. syn . Curtiss (1944: 630) noted that “The Tahiti zebra shrimp … lives in the sea, among the coral … The first pair of legs are provided with pincers; the left one is larger than the r...
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| Summary: | Cancer hassoni Curtiss, 1944 [ kouá ] Alpheus parvirostris Dana, 1852b: 22. Cancer hassoni Curtiss, 1944: 29 –30, n. syn . Curtiss (1944: 630) noted that “The Tahiti zebra shrimp … lives in the sea, among the coral … The first pair of legs are provided with pincers; the left one is larger than the right, and is shaped not much unlike that of the lobster of the North Atlantic … the body is transparent, the thorax having three black rings around it, and a broader one at the rear; the abdomen is also transparent with black rings around it. These black rings or bands cross the body, that is, they are vertical, and not lengthwise …. was seven-sixteenths of an inch in length” (Curtiss 1944: 29–30). The description of the chelipeds strongly suggests that Cancer hassoni is a species of snapping shrimp (Alpheidae). One very common and relatively small alpheid living in coral and coral rubble is known from Tahiti, Alpheus parvirostris Dana, 1852, and its colour pattern agrees extremely well with Curtiss’s description (A. Anker, personal communication). Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L., Eldredge, Lucius G. & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtiss in 1938 and 1944, pp. 43-56 in Zootaxa 3099 on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206896 |
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