Richalpheus palmeri Anker & Jeng, 2006

Anker, Arthur, Pratama, Idham Sumarto, Firdaus, Muhammad & Rahayu, Dwi Listyo, 2015, On some interesting marine decapod crustaceans (Alpheidae, Laomediidae, Strahlaxiidae) from Lombok, Indonesia, Zootaxa 3911 (3), pp. 301-342 : 322-323

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3911.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:071C75F3-4865-4CCE-AACA-21C82739E626

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5073377

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AD437D0C-F161-AD69-94CE-164FF4BA1AAC

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Plazi

scientific name

Richalpheus palmeri Anker & Jeng, 2006
status

 

Richalpheus palmeri Anker & Jeng, 2006 View in CoL

(Fig. 15)

Richalpheus palmeri Anker & Jeng 2006: 381 View in CoL , figs. 1–6; Anker 2011b: 66 View Cited Treatment , figs. 5, 6. Not Richalpheus View in CoL palmeri— Anker 2010: 34 View Cited Treatment , figs. 7, 8 (= R. alpheoides Anker, 2011 View in CoL ).

Material examined. Indonesia. 2 females ( MZB Cru 4050), western Lombok, Teluk Medana, seagrass flat with sand, mud, some rubble-gravel, burrow, suction pump, 0.2–0.7 m, 12 May 2014 [LB-St3-14, LB-St3-23]; 1 male ( OUMNH.ZC. 2014-10-17), same collection data [LB-St3-15]; 1 ov. female ( RMNH. CRUS.D.56746), same collection data [LB-St3-11]; 1 male, 1 female ( MZB Cru 4051), western Lombok, Sira, seagrass flat with some muddy areas, burrow, suction pump, 0.2–0.5 m, leg. D.L. Rahayu et al., 13 May 2014 [male: LB-St4-25, female: LB-St4-26]; 1 ov. female ( RMNH. CRUS.D.56747), same collection data [LB-St4-22].

Taxonomic account. See Anker & Jeng (2006); see also Anker (2011b) for additional illustrations.

Habitat. Near-shore sand flats, often with seagrass or near seagrass beds; “commensally” in burrows of unknown hosts, possibly callianassid ghost shrimps (see below); depth range: intertidal and shallow subtidal (around 0–5 m).

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Philippines, Indonesia (new record), French Polynesia ( Anker & Jeng 2006; Anker 2011b; present study).

Remarks. Richalpheus palmeri , possibly a widespread infaunal shrimp, is recorded from Lombok and Indonesia for the first time. In Lombok, it appears to co-occur with another infaunal alpheid, Leptalpheus denticulatus (see above). Although the burrowing host (or hosts) of R. palmeri presently remain undetermined, it is suspected that they could be large ghost shrimps in the family Callianassidae , e.g., species of Glypturus Stimpson, 1866 and Neocallichirus Sakai, 1988 ( Anker 2011b) .

MZB

Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Richalpheus

Loc

Richalpheus palmeri Anker & Jeng, 2006

Anker, Arthur, Pratama, Idham Sumarto, Firdaus, Muhammad & Rahayu, Dwi Listyo 2015
2015
Loc

Richalpheus palmeri

Anker 2011: 66
Anker 2010: 34
Anker 2006: 381
2006
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