Alpheus vanderbilti Boone, 1930

Anker, Arthur, Tavares, Marcos & Mendonça, Joel B., 2016, Alpheid shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) of the Trindade & Martin Vaz Archipelago, off Brazil, with new records, description of a new species of Synalpheus and remarks on zoogeographical patterns in the oceanic islands of the tropical southern Atlantic, Zootaxa 4138 (1), pp. 1-58 : 30

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.1.1

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:92CE67CD-BA74-4DE6-8117-13E2F19632DC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5099505

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/515E7E37-E449-FFCB-AAD6-9C8428CBDAF6

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scientific name

Alpheus vanderbilti Boone, 1930
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Alpheus vanderbilti Boone, 1930 View in CoL

Alpheus vanderbilti Boone 1930: 163 View in CoL , fig. 5, pl. 58; Anker et al. 2008a: 60 View Cited Treatment , figs. 2, 3B, C, 4E–H, J, K; Souza et al. 2011: 47. Alpheus cylindricus View in CoL — Zimmer 1913: 394; Crosnier & Forest 1966: 257, fig. 16; Christoffersen 1979: 310 [not A. cylindricus Kingsley, 1878 View in CoL ].

[for more complete synonymy prior to 2008 see Anker et al. (2008a)]

Material examined. Brazil: 1 ovig. female, MZUSP 30294, Trindade Island, Enseada da Cachoeira, Farrilhões, 20°31’22.4”S – 29°19’52.0”W, depth: 17.9 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 04.vii.2012. Size of female: cl 2.5 mm.

Description. See Boone (1930) for original description and illustrations, Crosnier & Forest (1966) for illustrations of the eastern Atlantic material (as A. cylindricus ), and Anker et al. (2008a) for redescription and additional illustrations (including colour photographs).

Distribution. Amphi-Atlantic: São Tomé & Principe; Equatorial Guinea: Annobon Island; Gulf of Mexico; throughout Caribbean Sea; Florida; Bermuda; Brazil: Maranhão to Bahia, Trindade Island ( Crosnier & Forest 1966; Christoffersen 1979; Anker et al. 2008a; Soledade & Almeida 2013 and references therein; present study).

Ecology. Various habitats with rocky and mixed rocky-sandy bottoms; in loggerhead sponges ( Spheciospongia ) or in boring sponges lining cracks and crevices in or between rocks and clumps of calcareous algae; lower intertidal to 45 m (western Atlantic) or 73 m (eastern Atlantic) ( Anker et al. 2008a).

Remarks. Alpheus vanderbilti , although widespread in the tropical Atlantic Ocean ( Anker et al. 2008c), is rarely collected, which is mainly due to its mainly subtidal occurrence and extremely cryptic life style. The species is recorded for the first time from Trindade Island based on a single small (cl 2.5 mm) but already ovigerous female. Alpheus vanderbilti and its eastern Pacific sister species A. cylindricus Kingsley, 1878 can be relatively easily recognised by the unique shape of the major and minor chelipeds, and in life, also by their diagnostic colour patterns ( Anker et al. 2008a).

MZUSP

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Alpheus

Loc

Alpheus vanderbilti Boone, 1930

Anker, Arthur, Tavares, Marcos & Mendonça, Joel B. 2016
2016
Loc

Alpheus vanderbilti

Souza 2011: 47
Anker 2008: 60
Christoffersen 1979: 310
Crosnier 1966: 257
Boone 1930: 163
Zimmer 1913: 394
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