Alpheus splendidus Coutière, 1897

Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza, 2019, Annotated checklist of the snapping shrimps of the genus Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran, Zootaxa 4544 (4), pp. 479-504 : 491

Alpheus splendidus Coutière, 1897

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Alpheus splendidus Coutière, 1897a: 235 ; De Man, 1924: 41; 1929: 23; Crosnier & Forest, 1966: 361; Banner & Banner, 1982: 56; Chace, 1988: 54; Anker & De Grave, 2016: 368.

Material examined. PG: 1 male, 1 female ( ZUTC 6672 ) Hormuz I., under large boulder, Coll. A. Sharifi, 4 Dec. 2015 ; 3 males ( ZUTC 6670 ), Abu-Musa I., under large boulder, Coll. A. Dehghani, 10 May 2016 ; GO: 1 male, 1 female ( ZUTC 6671 ), Chabahar Bay , Tis, under large boulder, Coll. A. Dehghani, 2 Oct. 2016 .

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea, PG, GO, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia and Southern China.

Regional records. PG and GO: Iran (present study).

Habitat. This species was collected from sandy-boulder shores and under dead corals and boulders in lower intertidal to 3 m deep.

Remarks. Anker & De Grave (2016) recorded two color patterns for this species in Singapore and mentioned it as a cryptic or pseudo-cryptic species in the Indo-West Pacific. However, the specimens of current study show uniformity in the color pattern and mostly agree with material from Singapore figured by Anker & De Grave (2016: fig. 29c).

Figures

FIGURE 6. Alpheus pacificus Dana, 1852. A. Male with elongated minor chela (CL. 7.6 mm); B. Pale colored male (CL. 8 mm); C. Brown male (CL. 7.9 mm), Tis, Chabahar Bay. Alpheus parvirostris Dana, 1852. D. Female (CL. 7.1 mm), Abu-Musa Island. Alpheus aff. paracrinitus Miers, 1881. E. Male (CL. 6 mm), Tis, Chabahar Bay. Alpheus splendidus Coutière, 1897, F. Male (CL. 8.9 mm), Hormuz Island.