Alpheus malleodigitus ( Bate, 1888 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255798 |
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Alpheus malleodigitus ( Bate, 1888 ) |
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Alpheus malleodigitus ( Bate, 1888) View in CoL
( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A–B)
Betaeus malleodigitus Bate, 1888: 565 View in CoL .
Alpheus malleodigitus View in CoL — De Man, 1902: 866;
Alpheus phyrginus Coutiere, 1905a: 886 , fig. 25.
Alpheus persicus Nobili, 1906: 33 View in CoL .
Alpheus malleodigitus View in CoL — Banner and Banner, 1982: 92.
Material examined. PG: 5 males, 6 ovig. females ( ZUTC 6677 ), Abu-Musa I., on dead coral, Coll. R. Naderloo and A. Dehghani, 10 Oct. 2017 ; 1 male, 1 ovine. female ( SMF 51384), Abu-Musa I., on dead coral, Coll. R. Naderloo & A. Dehghani, 10 Oct. 2017 ; GO: 2 males, 2 ovig. females ( ZUTC 6678 ), Chabahar Bay , Tis, on dead coral, Coll. A. Dehghani, 2 Oct. 2016 .
Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: from South Africa and Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman to Japan, Australia.
Regional records. PG: UAE ( Nobili, 1905b & 1906 as Alpheus persicus ), Iran (present study); GO: Iran (present study).
Habitat. The material from Australia and Singapore are associated to the hard corals Pocillopora and Seriatopora ( Banner & Banner, 1982; Anker & De Grave, 2016).
Remarks. Nobili (1906) described a new species from the PG, namely A. persicus . However, Banner & Banner (1966) re-examined this material and synonymized it with A. malleodigitus . The species is similar in appearance to A. microstylus but can be recognized using two characters: 1) tooth of the scaphocerite reaching the distal margin of second antennular segment while in A. microstylus the tooth reaches near the end of third segment; 2) dactylus of major chela forms a single to double-headed hammer (see Banner & Banner, 1982). In the PG and GO, A. malleodigitus were found on Acropora sp. branches.
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Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg |
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Alpheus malleodigitus ( Bate, 1888 )
Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza 2019 |
Alpheus malleodigitus
Banner, D. M. & Banner, A. H. 1982: 92 |
Alpheus persicus
Nobili, G. 1906: 33 |
Alpheus phyrginus
Coutiere, H. 1905: 886 |
Alpheus malleodigitus
De Man, J. G. 1902: 866 |
Betaeus malleodigitus
Bate, C. S. 1888: 565 |