Synalpheus townsendi Coutière, 1909

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 : 38-39

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5099526

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scientific name

Synalpheus townsendi Coutière, 1909
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Synalpheus townsendi Coutière, 1909 View in CoL

( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 )

Synalpheus townsendi Coutière 1909: 32 View in CoL (partim), fig. 14; Christoffersen 1979: 352; Abele & Kim 1986: 203, 226, 227, figs. f– h; Bezerra & Coelho 2006: 701; Alves et al. 2008: 50; Souza et al. 2011: 48; Anker et al. 2012: 70, figs. 45, 46; Soledade et al. 2015: 63.

[for more complete synonymy prior to 2012 see Anker et al. (2012)]

Material examined. Brazil: 1 male, MZUSP 30351, Trindade Island, Praia do Lixo, 20°31’29.8”S – 29°19’43.9”W, depth: 25 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 02.vii.2012; 1 male, MZUSP 33259, Trindade Island, Enseada Orelhas, 20°29’40.2”S – 29°20’32.9”W, depth: 12 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 01.xi.2014; 1 female, MZUSP 30300, Trindade Island, Praia dos Portugueses, Rampa Nova, 20°30’17.7”S – 29°18’56.7”W, depth: 11 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 11.vii.2012; 2 males, MZUSP 30261, Trindade Island, Enseada da Cachoeira, Praia do M, 20°30’26.5”S – 29°20’48.0”W, depth: 12 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 12.vii.2012; 1 female, MZUSP 30313, Trindade Island, Enseada da Cachoeira, Farrilhões, 20°31’22.4”S – 29°19’52.0”W, depth: 13.8 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 09.vii.2012; 1 female, MZUSP 33381, Trindade Island, Ponta Norte, 20°29’40.2”S – 29°20’32.9”W, depth: 11.5 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 01.iv.2014; 1 ovig. female, MZUSP 33269, Trindade Island, between Ponta da Crista do Galo and Ponta Norte, 20°29’14.8”S – 29°20’13.9”W, depth: 15 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 21.v.2014; 2 males, 4 (2 ovig.) females, MZUSP 30352, Trindade Island, Ilha da Racha, 20°30’26.5”S – 29°20’48.0”W, depth: 27.1 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 22.vi.2012; 1 female, MZUSP 30283, Trindade Island, large underwater boulder near Ponta Noroeste, 20°29’46.4”S – 29°20’35.4”W, depth: 11.6 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 04.vii.2012; 1 male, MZUSP 33311, Trindade Island, Enseada do Príncipe, Ilha Sul, 20°31’34.3”S – 29°19’27.9”W, depth: 17.6 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 06.xi.2014; 1 male, MZUSP 33268, same collection data; 1 ovig. female, MZUSP 33247, same collection data; 1 male, MZUSP 33268, Trindade Island, Enseada do Príncipe, Ilha Sul, 20°31’34.3”S – 29°19’27.9”W, depth: 17.6 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 06.xi.2014; 1 ovig. female, MZUSP 33247, Trindade Island, Enseada do Príncipe, Ilha Sul, 20°31’34.3”S – 29°19’27.9”W, depth: 17.6 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 06.xi.2014; 5 males, 3 ovig. females, 1 juvenile, MZUSP 34134, Martin Vaz Island, 20°28’28.4”S – 28°51’24.5”W, depth: 21.4 m, coll. J.B. Mendonça, 21.vi.2015. Size of largest male: cl 3.0 mm ( MZUSP 30351); largest female: cl 3.3 mm ( MZUSP 30352). Numerous additional specimens (not listed above) are deposited in MZUSP.

Description. See Coutière (1909) for original description and illustrations, and Anker et al. (2012) for additional figures and colour photographs (see also Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 ).

Distribution. Western Atlantic: North Carolina to Florida; Gulf of Mexico; throughout Caribbean Sea; Bermuda; Brazil: Ceará to Rio de Janeiro, Atol das Rocas , Abrolhos Islands, Trindade & Martin Vaz Archipelago (Anker et al. 2012 and references therein; Soledade et al. 2015; present study).

Ecology. Rocky shores and coral reefs with abundance of sponges, coral rubble and coralline algae; in rock crevices and sponges; intertidal to below 100 m.

Remarks. Synalpheus townsendi is a common and wide-ranging western Atlantic species, which is known from several Brazilian localities, including Atol das Rocas (Anker et al. 2012) and the Abrolhos Archipelago (Soledade et al. 2015). The species is reported for the first time from the Trindade & Martin Vaz Archipelago, representing the eastern-most record of the species.

MZUSP

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Synalpheus

Loc

Synalpheus townsendi Coutière, 1909

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

Synalpheus townsendi Coutière 1909 : 32

Souza 2011: 48
Alves 2008: 50
Abele 1986: 203
Christoffersen 1979: 352
Coutiere 1909: 32
1909
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