Cancer hassoni Curtiss, 1944

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, Zootaxa 3099, pp. 43-56 : 53

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).