Synalpheus quinquedens Tattersall, 1921

Al-Kandari, Manal, Anker, Arthur, Hussain, Sumaiah, Al-Yassen, Sharifa, Sattari, Zainab & Grave, Sammy De, 2020, New records of decapod crustaceans from Kuwait (Malacostraca: Decapoda), Zootaxa 4803 (2), pp. 251-280 : 259

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255842

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scientific name

Synalpheus quinquedens Tattersall, 1921
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Synalpheus quinquedens Tattersall, 1921 View in CoL

Synalpheus quinquedens Tattersall 1921: 376 View in CoL , pl. 28, figs. 1–5; Ramadan 1936: 19; Banner & Banner 1981: 74, 92; Banner & Banner 1983: 105; Jones 1986: 153, pl. 43; De Grave & Ashelby 2011: 3; Naderloo & Türkay 2012: 5; George 2012: 285.

Material examined. Kuwait: 1 female, OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.022, Failaka Island , eastern side, rocky substrate, leg. M. Al-Kandari et al., 24.xii.2014 .

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific, with records from the Red Sea (e.g. Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, Ghardaqa, Khor Dongonab, Suakin), Arabian Gulf ( Iran, Qatar, Kuwait), East Africa ( Kenya), Madagascar and Indonesia (e.g., Tattersall 1921; Ramadan 1936; Banner & Banner 1981, 1983; Jones 1986; George 2012; Naderloo & Türkay 2012).

Ecology. Lower intertidal to 64 m ( Banner & Banner 1983); possibly associated with encrusting sponges.

Remarks. The species was previously known from the Arabian Gulf based on unspecified material from an unknown locality collected by the “Danish Persian Gulf Expedition” ( Banner & Banner 1981). Since this expedition was conducted mainly along the Iranian coast, Naderloo & Türkay (2012) included S. quinquedens in the list of the Iranian decapod fauna.

Synalpheus quinquedens was also included in the popular field-guide to the intertidal macrofauna of Kuwait ( Jones 1986), with a short text accompanied by a highly diagrammatic, inaccurate illustration. Importantly, the diagnostic characters (presence of five strong rounded or subacute teeth on the posterior margin of the sixth pleonite) of S. quinquedens cannot be seen in the figure of the general habitus provided by Jones (1986). Therefore, the present specimen represents the first formal record of S. quinquedens from Kuwait, confirming the previous, rather vague records of the species from the Arabian Gulf ( Banner & Banner 1981; Jones 1986).

Banner, D. M. & Banner, A. H. (1981) Annotated checklist of the alpheid shrimp of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 190, 1 - 99.

Banner, A. H. & Banner, D. M. (1983) An annotated checklist of the alpheid shrimp from the Western Indian Ocean. Travaux et Documents de l'ORSTOM, 158, 1 - 164.

De Grave, S. & Ashelby, C. W. (2011) Notes on some shrimp species (Decapoda: Caridea) from Qatar, with an annotated checklist of marine caridean species known from the Persian Gulf. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4 (e 20), 1 - 7. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267211000224

George, J. D. (2012) Reef-associated macroinvertebrates of the SE Gulf. In: Riegl, B. M & Purkis, S. J. (Eds.), Co ral reefs of the Gulf: Adaptation to climatic extremes. Coral Reefs of the World, 3, pp. 253 - 308. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 94 - 007 - 3008 - 3 _ 13

Jones, D. A. (1986) A field guide to the sea shores of Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf. Blandford Press, University of Kuwait, Kuwait City, 192 pp.

Naderloo, R. & Turkay, M. (2012) Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: faunistics, biodiversity and zoogeography. Zootaxa, 3374 (1), 1 - 67. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3374.1.1

Ramadan, M. M. (1936) Report on a collection of Stomatopoda and Decapoda from Ghardaga, Red Sea. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, The Egyptian University, 6, 1 - 43.

Tattersall, W. M. (1921) Report on the Stomatopoda and macrurous Decapoda collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland in the Sudanese Red Sea. The Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 34, 345 - 398. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1921. tb 01838. x

ZC

Zoological Collection, University of Vienna

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Synalpheus