Alpheus gracilis Heller, 1861

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 : 485-486

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.5255786

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/730587B4-FF8B-3C1C-FF06-FA47FDCBFD09

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Alpheus gracilis Heller, 1861
status

 

Alpheus gracilis Heller, 1861 View in CoL

( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 C–D)

Alpheus gracilis Heller, 1861: 271 View in CoL ; De Man, 1897: 733; Tiwari, 1963: 283.

Alpheus gracilis alluaudi View in CoL — Coutiere, 1905a: 882.

Alpheus gracilis luciparensis View in CoL — De Man, 1911: 337.

Alpheus gracilis gracilis —Banner & Banner, 1968: 280.

Crangon gracilis simplex View in CoL — Banner, 1953: 75.

Alpheus gracilis simplex — Banner & Banner, 1966b: 97.

Material examined. PG: 3 males, 3 ovig. females ( ZUTC 6674 ), Abu-Musa I., sandy/boulder shores, Coll. A. Dehghani & H. Ashrafi, 10 Oct. 2017 ; 1 male, 1 female ( SMF 51380), Abu-Musa I., sandy/boulder shores, Coll. A. Dehghani & H. Ashrafi, 10 Oct. 2017 ; GO: 2 males, 2 ovig. females ( ZUTC 6673 ), Chabahar Bay , Tis, in large rocks and coral rubble, Coll. A. Dehghani, 2 Oct. 2016 .

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Red Sea, Australia, central Pacific to Hawaii, and Society Islands.

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

Habitat. All specimens were collected from crevices in dead coral heads and mostly found in water from 3–6 m deep. This species is syntopic with Alpheus parvirostris .

Remark: Heller (1861) described Alpheus gracilis from the Red Sea. Coutière (1905) described a subspecies Alpheus gracilis alluaudi based on material collected in the Maldives. According to Coutière (1905), the subspecies shows no secondary unguis on the dactylus of the third pereiopod. De Man (1911) described a variety of the species from the Lucipara Island as A. gracilis luciparensis . Banner & Banner (1983) studied various collections from Red Sea, Thailand, southern Philippines and Christmas Island, Maui and other Hawaiian Islands and listed three morphological variations for the species. These variations are categorized as: 1) Presence of deep or shallow orbito-rostral grooves, 2) Presence or absence of a projection on dactylar articulation of small chela, 3) Simple or bi-ungulate dactylus of third pereiopod. Based on these features, Banner & Banner (1983) concluded that this species shows a tendency to develop morphologically separated geographic lineages. All of our examined specimens show shallow orbito-rostral grooves, a projection on the dactylar articulation of small chela, and a biungulate dactylus of the third pereiopod.

SMF

Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Alpheus

Loc

Alpheus gracilis Heller, 1861

Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza 2019
2019
Loc

Alpheus gracilis simplex

Banner, A. H. & Banner, D. M. 1966: 97
1966
Loc

Crangon gracilis simplex

Banner, A. H. 1953: 75
1953
Loc

Alpheus gracilis luciparensis

De Man, J. G. 1911: 337
1911
Loc

Alpheus gracilis alluaudi

Coutiere, H. 1905: 882
1905
Loc

Alpheus gracilis

Tiwari, K. K. 1963: 283
De Man, J. G. 1897: 733
Heller, C. 1861: 271
1861
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF