Carupa tenuipes Dana, 1851

Yokes, Baki & Galil, Bella S., 2006, New records of alien decapods (Crustacea) from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, with a description of a new palaemonid species, Zoosystema 28 (3), pp. 747-755 : 752

Carupa tenuipes Dana, 1851

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MATERIAL EXAMINED (exoskeletons). — Turkey. Kakalak I., Üç Adalar, 7 m depth, rocky bottom, 5.IV.2002, cl 7.4 mm ( TAU). — Panorama Reef, Kalkan, 9 m depth, rocky bottom, 13.VII.2002, cl 13.8 mm ( TAU). — Ince Burun, Kaş, 5 m depth, rocky bottom, 21.VII.2002, cl 8.4 mm ( TAU). — Çoban Burnu, Kaş, 6 m depth, rocky bottom, 24.VII.2002, cl 11.2 mm ( TAU). — Siçak Peninsula, Kekova, 26 m depth, rocky bottom, 12.VIII.2002, cl 6.1 mm ( TAU). — Devecitaşi I., Beş Adalar, 17 m depth, rocky bottom, 24.VIII.2002, cl 10.9 mm ( TAU). — Tatlisu Limani, 3 m depth, 2.IX.2002, cl 9.9 mm ( TAU) — Tekirova, 5-6 m depth,

25.X.2003, 1 juv. cl 6.9 mm ( TAU).

REMARKS

The specimen photographed off the Kaş Peninsula is similar to the single specimen collected off the Mediterranean coast of Israel ( Galil 2004). The carapace and pereiopods of the specimen are of nearly uniform pale orange colour. The fingers were dark brown distally and along their inner margins, the dactyl bearing a pale round spot medially on upper margin. The species, of nocturnal habits, was collected on biogenic rubble and rocky bottoms in the Mediterranean though it is known to inhabit coral reef and coral rubble bottoms in the Indo-West Pacific. A new record for Turkey, where it has been established as far back as 1996 (pers. obs.), and the number of the shed exoskeletons collected point to its apparent abundance between Kalkan and Tekirova.

Figures

FIG. 2. — A, B, Urocaridella pulchella n. sp.; A, Güvercin Ada, Kaş, 12 m depth, rocky bottom, night dive, VIII.2003; B, Kaş, 10-15 m depth,rocky bottom,night dive,XI.2003;C, Melicertus hathor (Burkenroad,1959), Tatlisu Limani, 4 m depth, sand, night dive,IX.2002; D, Metapenaeopsis aegyptia Galil, 1990, Fakdere, Kaş, 4 m depth, Posidonia meadow, night dive, IX.2002; E, Carupa tenuipes Dana, 1851, Dalyan, Muğla, 8 m depth,in a cave, night dive, 30.X.1996; F, Charybdis (Charybdis) hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867), Tekirova, 7 m depth, rocky bottom, night dive, VIII.2001.