Alpheus rapax Fabricius, 1798

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:94D88B54-FDE2-4E4B-8E29-CE91B0192E0B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255825
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scientific name	Alpheus rapax Fabricius, 1798
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Alpheus rapax Fabricius, 1798 View in CoL

Alpheus rapax Fabricius, 1798: 405 View in CoL ; De Man, 1909b: 147; De Man, 1911: 385; Johnson, 1962: 52; Banner & Banner, 1966a: 121; Johnson, 1979: 40; Banner & Banner, 1978: 228; 1982: 174; 1985: 31. Alpheus brevicristatus View in CoL — Tan & Yeo, 2004: 137.

Material examined. PG: 2 males, 1 female ( ZUTC 6690 ), Hormuz I., in muddy bottoms, Coll. A. Sari and A. Dehghani, 10 Oct. 2017 ; GO: 2 males, 1 female ( ZUTC 6691 ), Chabahar Bay , Tis, muddy bottoms, Coll. A. Dehghani, 2 Oct. 2016 .

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: from Red Sea, PG, GO to Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Micronesia and Hawaii.

Regional records. PG: Iran ( Banner & Banner 1981, present study); GO: Iran (present study).

Habitat. Sandy-muddy or sandy-rubble bottoms, near coral reefs, sea grasses beds or mangroves, occasionally associated with gobies; intertidal to at least 5 m deep.

Remarks. Alpheus rapax can be distinguished from related species by having a broader scaphocerite and shorter fingers of the minor chela (see Bruce, 1994).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Alpheidae
Genus	Alpheus