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Karplus
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, fig. 2C (black-and-white photograph);
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, fig. 2C;
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(part.), 1 colour photograph (shrimp from
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See discussion for other records of
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, leg.
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, P.
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. Moore,
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[fcn BDJRS- 2827]
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.
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE1677B24CE0389FEE231CB" bold="true" box="[199,337,1173,1199]" pageId="2" pageNumber="423">Description</emphasis>
. Carapace glabrous, without setae, sparsely pitted (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE1677B2791038AFBA031D4" box="[920,1043,1174,1200]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1824,1848]" captionTargetBox="[161,1422,284,1790]" captionTargetId="figure-63@3.[151,1436,273,1801]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37016); A—frontal region, dorsal; B—same, lateral; C—telson, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); D—tooth on ventromesial carina of first article of antennular peduncle, lateral; E—third maxilliped, lateral; F—second pleopod, detail of appendix masculina and appendix interna, anterior (lateral); G—uropod, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); H—same, detail of spiniform setae on distal margin of endopod (plumose setae omitted)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332831" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332831/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="423">Fig. 1A, B</figureCitation>
). Rostrum well developed, moderately slender, about 1.82.2 times as long as wide at base, straight, subacute distally, almost reaching distal margin of first article of antennular peduncle; rostral carina well developed, rounded dorsally, gently sloping into shallow adrostral furrows, continuing well beyond base of orbital hoods, gradually widening and fading, not reaching midlength of carapace (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE1677B2570023AFE453024" box="[377,502,1318,1344]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1824,1848]" captionTargetBox="[161,1422,284,1790]" captionTargetId="figure-63@3.[151,1436,273,1801]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37016); A—frontal region, dorsal; B—same, lateral; C—telson, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); D—tooth on ventromesial carina of first article of antennular peduncle, lateral; E—third maxilliped, lateral; F—second pleopod, detail of appendix masculina and appendix interna, anterior (lateral); G—uropod, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); H—same, detail of spiniform setae on distal margin of endopod (plumose setae omitted)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332831" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332831/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="423">Fig. 1A, B</figureCitation>
). Orbital hoods swollen, somewhat projecting anteriorly in lateral view, unarmed; frontal margin between rostrum and orbital hood shallowly concave (
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). Pterygostomial angle rounded (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE1677B24A90272FF4530EC" box="[160,246,1390,1416]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1824,1848]" captionTargetBox="[161,1422,284,1790]" captionTargetId="figure-63@3.[151,1436,273,1801]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37016); A—frontal region, dorsal; B—same, lateral; C—telson, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); D—tooth on ventromesial carina of first article of antennular peduncle, lateral; E—third maxilliped, lateral; F—second pleopod, detail of appendix masculina and appendix interna, anterior (lateral); G—uropod, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); H—same, detail of spiniform setae on distal margin of endopod (plumose setae omitted)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332831" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332831/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="423">Fig. 1B</figureCitation>
); cardiac notch deep.
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<paragraph id="177F5141FFE1677B24CE028EFCB63304" blockId="2.[151,1437,921,2028]" pageId="2" pageNumber="423">
Telson broad, subrectangular, gently tapering distally, about 1.7 times as long as maximal width, with lateral margins slightly convex at about 0.7 of its length, more noticeably tapering in posterior third; dorsal surface with two pairs of stout short cuspidate setae both inserted at some distance from lateral margin, first pair near telson mid-length, second pair between 0.7 and 0.8 telson length; posterior margin broadly rounded, with row of slender spiniform setae above plumose setae; posterolateral angles each with one pair of spiniform setae, mesial ones stouter and almost three times as long as lateral ones (
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).
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<paragraph id="177F5141FFE1677B24CE0176FAEA32E4" blockId="2.[151,1437,921,2028]" pageId="2" pageNumber="423">
Eyes with large, well-pigmented silvery cornea (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE1677B26E20176FCC233E0" box="[747,881,1642,1668]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1824,1848]" captionTargetBox="[161,1422,284,1790]" captionTargetId="figure-63@3.[151,1436,273,1801]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37016); A—frontal region, dorsal; B—same, lateral; C—telson, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); D—tooth on ventromesial carina of first article of antennular peduncle, lateral; E—third maxilliped, lateral; F—second pleopod, detail of appendix masculina and appendix interna, anterior (lateral); G—uropod, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); H—same, detail of spiniform setae on distal margin of endopod (plumose setae omitted)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332831" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332831/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="423">Figs. 1A, B</figureCitation>
;
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;
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE1677B27DB0176FBAA33E0" box="[978,1049,1642,1668]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1791,1815]" captionTargetBox="[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetId="figure-25@8.[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 4. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimps in life:A, B—holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37011, left side of the carapace damaged during collection), general dorsal view (A) and detail of frontal region (B); C—paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from the same locality (FLMNH UF 37016), major (right) cheliped, mesial view; D—male from Eilat, Israel (not deposited), dorso-frontal view of cephalothorax with chelipeds and other appendages; E, F, G—shrimps associated with Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960, photographed in situ in Nuweiba (E), Naama Bay near Sharm-el-Sheikh (F) and Safaga (G), Egypt (not collected). Photographs by the author [AC], Dr. Ilan Karplus [D], Sonja Ooms [E], Andrey Ryanskiy [F] and Indra Günther [G]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332837" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332837/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="423">4B, D</figureCitation>
). Antennular peduncle moderately long and stout; stylocerite slightly swollen laterally, ending in sharp point, latter reaching but not significantly overreaching distal margin of first article; ventromesial carina with anteriorly directed, shark-fin shaped tooth; second article about 2.7 times as long as wide; lateral antennular flagellum with secondary ramus fused to main ramus over most of its length, with numerous groups of aesthetascs distally, starting from about 13th subdivision (
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). Antenna with basicerite moderately stout, armed with sharp tooth on distoventral margin; scaphocerite with lateral margin shallowly and broadly concave; blade moderately broad, not reaching beyond stout, subacute distolateral tooth; scaphocerite overreaching both end of antennular peduncle and end of carpocerite (
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).
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Mouthparts not dissected, typical for genus in external observation. Third maxilliped relatively slender, elongate, distally setose; coxa with bluntly projecting lateral plate; antepenultimate article flattened ventrolaterally, with distinct ridge running parallel to dorsal margin on lateral surface and almost smooth mesial margin, almost six times as long as high; penultimate article cup-shaped, not bulging ventrally, distally widening, its distoventral margin with tuft of moderately long setae, latter not reaching half-length of ultimate article; ultimate article densely furnished with rows of elongate stiff setae, dorsal and apical setae longest; arthrobranch well developed (
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE0677A249E003CFEBD325D" bold="true" box="[151,270,1824,1849]" pageId="3" pageNumber="424">FIGURE 1</emphasis>
.
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: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37016); A—frontal region, dorsal; B—same, lateral; C—telson, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); D—tooth on ventromesial carina of first article of antennular peduncle, lateral; E—third maxilliped, lateral; F—second pleopod, detail of appendix masculina and appendix interna, anterior (lateral); G—uropod, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); H—same, detail of spiniform setae on distal margin of endopod (plumose setae omitted).
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<paragraph id="177F5141FFE7677D24CE078BFB7134B5" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">
Major cheliped moderately robust; ischium stout, smooth; merus moderately stout, trigonal in cross-section, about three times as long as maximal width, distodorsal margin ending bluntly, ventromesial margin slightly rugose, with blunt distal tooth, armed with three spiniform setae; carpus short, wide, cup-shaped; chela not particularly elongate, with long setae along dorsal and ventral margins; palm strongly compressed, subrectangular in cross-section, length / maximal height ratio about 1.92.1; surfaces relatively smooth, not granulated; dorsal margin with well-marked transverse groove subdistally, without pronounced longitudinal ridges; ventral margin feebly convex; fingers somewhat unequal in length with dactylus slightly longer than pollex, both about half-length of palm, not twisted or significantly deviating from chela axis; dactylus distally rounded, with plunger greatly reduced, poorly demarcated from anterior cutting edge, latter feebly bulging; adhesive disks small (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D203306ABFB0634B5" box="[1082,1205,439,465]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1837,1861]" captionTargetBox="[153,1426,323,1802]" captionTargetId="figure-75@5.[151,1436,308,1813]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 2. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) (FLMNH UF 37016) [AC, FK] and holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) (FLMNH UF 37011) [D, E], both from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia; A—major (right) cheliped, lateral; B—same, chela, mesial; C—same, ischium, merus and carpus, mesial; D—minor (right) cheliped, chela and carpus, lateral; E, same, ischium, merus and carpus, lateral; F—second pereiopod, lateral; G—third pereiopod, lateral; H—same, propodus and dactylus, lateral; I—same, dactylus, ventral (setae omitted); J—fifth pereiopod, lateral; K—same, propodus and dactylus, mesial." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332833" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332833/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Fig. 2AC</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE7677D24CE06C7FEA93671" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">
Minor cheliped relatively slender, not sexually dimorphic; ischium short, smooth; merus slightly slenderer than that of major cheliped, trigonal in cross-section, about 3.5 times as long as maximal width, distodorsal angle blunt, ventromesial margin slightly rugose, with small blunt distal protuberance, armed with four small spiniform setae; carpus longer than that of major chela, distally widening, vase-shaped; chela not particularly elongate or swollen, slender, fringed with long setae along dorsal and ventral margins; palm compressed, oval in cross-section, length / maximal height ratio about 2.2; surfaces smooth, not granulated; dorsal margin without groove; ventral margin straight; fingers subequal in length, approximately as long as palm, straight, slightly gaping when closed, not balaeniceps; cutting edges of each finger with broadly triangular protuberance proximally; adhesive disks reduced (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D216D05CBFF683671" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1837,1861]" captionTargetBox="[153,1426,323,1802]" captionTargetId="figure-75@5.[151,1436,308,1813]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 2. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) (FLMNH UF 37016) [AC, FK] and holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) (FLMNH UF 37011) [D, E], both from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia; A—major (right) cheliped, lateral; B—same, chela, mesial; C—same, ischium, merus and carpus, mesial; D—minor (right) cheliped, chela and carpus, lateral; E, same, ischium, merus and carpus, lateral; F—second pereiopod, lateral; G—third pereiopod, lateral; H—same, propodus and dactylus, lateral; I—same, dactylus, ventral (setae omitted); J—fifth pereiopod, lateral; K—same, propodus and dactylus, mesial." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332833" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332833/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Figs. 2D, E</figureCitation>
;
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D24EE05E7FEBE3671" box="[231,269,763,789]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1650,1674]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1626]" captionTargetId="figure-25@6.[151,1435,181,1626]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 3. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimp in life:A, B—paratype female (cl 7.4 mm) from Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37070), general dorsal (A) and lateral (B) views. Photographs by the author." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332835" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332835/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">3A</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE7677D24CE0403FD6C3069" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">
Second pereiopod slender; ischium and merus subequal in length; carpus with five subarticles, first much longer than second, ratio of carpal subdivisions approximately equal to 2.3: 2.2: 1.0: 0.9: 1.5; chela longer than distalmost carpal subdivision (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D25BB047BFDBB36E5" box="[434,520,871,897]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1837,1861]" captionTargetBox="[153,1426,323,1802]" captionTargetId="figure-75@5.[151,1436,308,1813]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 2. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) (FLMNH UF 37016) [AC, FK] and holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) (FLMNH UF 37011) [D, E], both from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia; A—major (right) cheliped, lateral; B—same, chela, mesial; C—same, ischium, merus and carpus, mesial; D—minor (right) cheliped, chela and carpus, lateral; E, same, ischium, merus and carpus, lateral; F—second pereiopod, lateral; G—third pereiopod, lateral; H—same, propodus and dactylus, lateral; I—same, dactylus, ventral (setae omitted); J—fifth pereiopod, lateral; K—same, propodus and dactylus, mesial." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332833" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332833/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Fig. 2F</figureCitation>
). Third pereiopod relatively slender; ischium with stout spiniform seta on ventrolateral surface; merus almost five times as long as maximal width, ventromesial margin unarmed distally; carpus about half-length of merus, much slenderer than merus, unarmed; propodus slightly longer than carpus, moderately setose, with about six spiniform setae along ventral margin and one distal pair of spiniform setae on distoventral angle near base of dactylus; dactylus about 0.4 length of propodus, gradually curving distally, subspatulate, moderately broadened, flattened ventrally, with longitudinal keel fringed by several tufts of setae (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D20C00307FA8E3151" box="[1225,1341,1051,1077]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1837,1861]" captionTargetBox="[153,1426,323,1802]" captionTargetId="figure-75@5.[151,1436,308,1813]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 2. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) (FLMNH UF 37016) [AC, FK] and holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) (FLMNH UF 37011) [D, E], both from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia; A—major (right) cheliped, lateral; B—same, chela, mesial; C—same, ischium, merus and carpus, mesial; D—minor (right) cheliped, chela and carpus, lateral; E, same, ischium, merus and carpus, lateral; F—second pereiopod, lateral; G—third pereiopod, lateral; H—same, propodus and dactylus, lateral; I—same, dactylus, ventral (setae omitted); J—fifth pereiopod, lateral; K—same, propodus and dactylus, mesial." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332833" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332833/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Fig. 2GI</figureCitation>
). Fourth pereiopod generally similar to third pereiopod, somewhat slenderer. Fifth pereiopod slenderer than third and fourth pereiopods; ischium with small spiniform seta on ventrolateral surface; merus about eight times as long as wide; carpus slenderer than merus, about 0.9 length of merus; propodus subequal to carpus, with rows of serrulate setae forming cleaning brush on distal third of ventrolateral surface, and eight or so spiniform setae along ventromesial margin, in addition to distal spiniform seta on mesial side of ventrodistal angle adjacent to base of dactylus; dactylus almost conical, only slightly broadened (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D265603EFFD603069" box="[607,723,1267,1293]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1837,1861]" captionTargetBox="[153,1426,323,1802]" captionTargetId="figure-75@5.[151,1436,308,1813]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 2. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) (FLMNH UF 37016) [AC, FK] and holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) (FLMNH UF 37011) [D, E], both from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia; A—major (right) cheliped, lateral; B—same, chela, mesial; C—same, ischium, merus and carpus, mesial; D—minor (right) cheliped, chela and carpus, lateral; E, same, ischium, merus and carpus, lateral; F—second pereiopod, lateral; G—third pereiopod, lateral; H—same, propodus and dactylus, lateral; I—same, dactylus, ventral (setae omitted); J—fifth pereiopod, lateral; K—same, propodus and dactylus, mesial." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332833" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332833/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Fig. 2J, K</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE7677D24CE020BFF023081" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">
Second pleopod with appendix masculina about 0.8 length of appendix interna, with long stiff setae, mainly along outer margin and on apex (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D26190227FDD63031" box="[528,613,1339,1365]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1824,1848]" captionTargetBox="[161,1422,284,1790]" captionTargetId="figure-63@3.[151,1436,273,1801]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37016); A—frontal region, dorsal; B—same, lateral; C—telson, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); D—tooth on ventromesial carina of first article of antennular peduncle, lateral; E—third maxilliped, lateral; F—second pleopod, detail of appendix masculina and appendix interna, anterior (lateral); G—uropod, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); H—same, detail of spiniform setae on distal margin of endopod (plumose setae omitted)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332831" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332831/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Fig. 1F</figureCitation>
). Uropod with mesial and lateral lobes of protopod each ending in sharp distal tooth; exopod broad, somewhat truncate distally, with blunt triangular distolateral tooth; diaeresis straight for most part, except for blunt lobe adjacent to stout spiniform seta, latter not reaching level of distal margin of exopod; endopod narrower than exopod, with row of small spiniform setae above plumose setae on distal margin (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D213702BBFF113081" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1824,1848]" captionTargetBox="[161,1422,284,1790]" captionTargetId="figure-63@3.[151,1436,273,1801]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov.: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37016); A—frontal region, dorsal; B—same, lateral; C—telson, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); D—tooth on ventromesial carina of first article of antennular peduncle, lateral; E—third maxilliped, lateral; F—second pleopod, detail of appendix masculina and appendix interna, anterior (lateral); G—uropod, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); H—same, detail of spiniform setae on distal margin of endopod (plumose setae omitted)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332831" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332831/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Fig. 1H, I</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE7677D24CE02F2FA943385" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE7677D24CE02F2FECC336D" bold="true" box="[199,383,1518,1545]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Colour pattern</emphasis>
. General background semi-opaque pale buff, sometimes with yellowish or greenish tinge; carapace and pleon with larger or smaller, irregularly shaped (some rounded) and sized spots, blotches and short transverse bands of rusty-brown to orange-brown colour, some more or less organised in longitudinal lines, others without particular organisation; spots more numerous on pleon, tail fan and chelipeds, being somewhat larger on pleon flanks and chelae; second pereiopods and walking legs also with rusty-brown spots or transverse bands; posterior region of carapace and first pleonite with more or less conspicuous white saddle; antennular flagella yellowish; fingertips of major chela pinkish; ovaries in females (visible by translucence) olive greenish (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D20A701DBFB4F3385" box="[1198,1276,1735,1761]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1650,1674]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1626]" captionTargetId="figure-25@6.[151,1435,181,1626]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 3. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimp in life:A, B—paratype female (cl 7.4 mm) from Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37070), general dorsal (A) and lateral (B) views. Photographs by the author." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332835" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332835/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Figs. 3</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D210001DBFAA93385" box="[1289,1306,1735,1761]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1791,1815]" captionTargetBox="[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetId="figure-25@8.[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 4. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimps in life:A, B—holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37011, left side of the carapace damaged during collection), general dorsal view (A) and detail of frontal region (B); C—paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from the same locality (FLMNH UF 37016), major (right) cheliped, mesial view; D—male from Eilat, Israel (not deposited), dorso-frontal view of cephalothorax with chelipeds and other appendages; E, F, G—shrimps associated with Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960, photographed in situ in Nuweiba (E), Naama Bay near Sharm-el-Sheikh (F) and Safaga (G), Egypt (not collected). Photographs by the author [AC], Dr. Ilan Karplus [D], Sonja Ooms [E], Andrey Ryanskiy [F] and Indra Günther [G]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332837" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332837/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">4</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="5FDA02CAFFE7677D24CE01F7FCAC322A" pageId="4" pageNumber="425" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE7677D24CE01F7FCAC322A" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE7677D24CE01F7FEFB3261" bold="true" box="[199,328,1771,1797]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Etymology</emphasis>
. This remarkable new species of
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE7677D26B001F7FCA03261" box="[697,787,1771,1797]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Alpheus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is named after Dr. Ilan Karplus for his important contribution to the knowledge of the biology and ecology of goby-shrimp symbioses (
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Karplus
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE7677D207B0013FB17324D" box="[1138,1188,1807,1833]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">et al</emphasis>
. 1981
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE7677D20F50013FA2B324D" author="Karplus, I." box="[1276,1432,1807,1833]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425" pagination="507 - 562" refId="ref10383" refString="Karplus, I. (1987) The association between gobiid fishes and burrowing alpheid shrimps. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review, 25, 507 - 562." type="journal article" year="1987">Karplus 1987</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE7677D249E002FFF613229" author="Karplus, I." box="[151,210,1843,1869]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425" pagination="275 - 291" refId="ref10413" refString="Karplus, I. (1992) Obligatory and facultative goby-shrimp partnerships in the western tropical Atlantic. Symbiosis, 12, 275 - 291." type="journal article" year="1992">1992</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE7677D24D7002FFDA33229" author="Karplus, I. &amp; Thompson, A. R." box="[222,528,1843,1869]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425" pagination="559 - 608" refId="ref10504" refString="Karplus, I. &amp; Thompson, A. R. (2011) The partnership between gobiid fishes and burrowing alpheid shrimps. In: Patzner, R. A., Van Tassell, J. L., Kovacic, M. &amp; Kapoor, B. G. (Eds.), The biology of gobies. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire, pp. 559 - 608." type="book chapter" year="2011">Karplus &amp; Thompson 2011</bibRefCitation>
and references therein).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="5FDA02CAFFE7677D24CE004AFE5032DD" pageId="4" pageNumber="425" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE7677D24CE004AFE5032DD" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE7677D24CE004AFEEA3214" bold="true" box="[199,345,1878,1904]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Distribution</emphasis>
. North-Western Indian Ocean: presently known only from the Red Sea, including
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE7677D2100004BFA2F3215" box="[1289,1436,1879,1905]" name="Saudi Arabia" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Saudi Arabia</collectingCountry>
(Farasan Islands and Thuwal,
<typeStatus id="C87BEFE3FFE7677D25E00067FDAA32F1" box="[489,537,1915,1941]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">type</typeStatus>
material),
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE7677D269C0067FD6B32F1" box="[661,728,1915,1941]" name="Egypt" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Egypt</collectingCountry>
(El Quseir, Safaga, Nuweiba;
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D20390067FB1532F1" box="[1072,1190,1915,1941]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1791,1815]" captionTargetBox="[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetId="figure-25@8.[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 4. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimps in life:A, B—holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37011, left side of the carapace damaged during collection), general dorsal view (A) and detail of frontal region (B); C—paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from the same locality (FLMNH UF 37016), major (right) cheliped, mesial view; D—male from Eilat, Israel (not deposited), dorso-frontal view of cephalothorax with chelipeds and other appendages; E, F, G—shrimps associated with Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960, photographed in situ in Nuweiba (E), Naama Bay near Sharm-el-Sheikh (F) and Safaga (G), Egypt (not collected). Photographs by the author [AC], Dr. Ilan Karplus [D], Sonja Ooms [E], Andrey Ryanskiy [F] and Indra Günther [G]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332837" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332837/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Fig. 4EG</figureCitation>
) and
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE7677D20EF0067FA9732F1" box="[1254,1316,1915,1941]" name="Israel" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Israel</collectingCountry>
(Eilat, see
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE7677D249E0083FEC232DD" author="Karplus, I. &amp; Szlep, R. &amp; Tsurnamal, M." box="[151,369,1951,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="425" pagination="1 - 19" refId="ref10439" refString="Karplus, I., Szlep, R. &amp; Tsurnamal, M. (1981) Goby-shrimp partner specificity. I. Distribution in the northern Red Sea and partner specificity. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 51, 1 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / 0022 - 0981 (81) 90151 - 9" type="journal article" year="1981">
Karplus
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE7677D24FE0083FE9C32DD" box="[247,303,1951,1977]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">et al.</emphasis>
1981
</bibRefCitation>
;
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE7677D25740083FE6432DD" box="[381,471,1951,1977]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1791,1815]" captionTargetBox="[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetId="figure-25@8.[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 4. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimps in life:A, B—holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37011, left side of the carapace damaged during collection), general dorsal view (A) and detail of frontal region (B); C—paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from the same locality (FLMNH UF 37016), major (right) cheliped, mesial view; D—male from Eilat, Israel (not deposited), dorso-frontal view of cephalothorax with chelipeds and other appendages; E, F, G—shrimps associated with Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960, photographed in situ in Nuweiba (E), Naama Bay near Sharm-el-Sheikh (F) and Safaga (G), Egypt (not collected). Photographs by the author [AC], Dr. Ilan Karplus [D], Sonja Ooms [E], Andrey Ryanskiy [F] and Indra Günther [G]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332837" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332837/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="425">Fig. 4D</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="5FDA02CAFFE6677C24CE078AFD2B3478" pageId="5" pageNumber="426" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE6677C24CE078AFD2B3478" blockId="5.[151,1437,150,285]" pageId="5" pageNumber="426">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE6677C24CE078AFE9535D4" bold="true" box="[199,294,150,176]" pageId="5" pageNumber="426">Ecology</emphasis>
. Coral reefs and adjacent reef flats with abundance of silt-covered rubble, at depths of
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(usually less than
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); associated exclusively with the whitecap shrimp goby
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE6677C27CA07A6FB3B35B0" box="[963,1160,186,212]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="426">Lotilia graciliosa</emphasis>
Klausewitz, 1960
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE6677C216F07A6FF61359C" author="Vine, P." pageId="5" pageNumber="426" refId="ref11355" refString="Vine, P. (1996) Red Sea invertebrates. Sea Challengers, Monterrey, 224 pp." type="book" year="1996">Vine 1996</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE6677C24E907C2FECF359C" author="Karplus, I." box="[224,380,222,248]" pageId="5" pageNumber="426" pagination="507 - 562" refId="ref10383" refString="Karplus, I. (1987) The association between gobiid fishes and burrowing alpheid shrimps. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review, 25, 507 - 562." type="journal article" year="1987">Karplus 1987</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE6677C258307C2FD77359C" author="Karplus, I. &amp; Thompson, A. R." box="[394,708,222,248]" pageId="5" pageNumber="426" pagination="559 - 608" refId="ref10504" refString="Karplus, I. &amp; Thompson, A. R. (2011) The partnership between gobiid fishes and burrowing alpheid shrimps. In: Patzner, R. A., Van Tassell, J. L., Kovacic, M. &amp; Kapoor, B. G. (Eds.), The biology of gobies. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire, pp. 559 - 608." type="book chapter" year="2011">Karplus &amp; Thompson 2011</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE6677C26DB07C2FCCB359C" author="Debelius, H." box="[722,888,222,248]" pageId="5" pageNumber="426" refId="ref10207" refString="Debelius, H. (2011) Red Sea reef guide. IKAN, Frankfurt, 322 pp." type="book" year="2011">Debelius 2011</bibRefCitation>
; for the most recent review of the genus
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE6677C215B07C2FA2E359C" box="[1362,1437,222,248]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="426">Lotilia</emphasis>
Klausewitz, 1960
</taxonomicName>
see
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE6677C2584061EFD3F3478" author="Shibukawa, K. &amp; Suzuki, T. &amp; Senou, H." box="[397,652,258,284]" pageId="5" pageNumber="426" pagination="54 - 64" refId="ref11289" refString="Shibukawa, K., Suzuki, T. &amp; Senou, H. (2012) Review of the shrimp-associated goby genus Lotilia (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae), with description of a new species from the West Pacific. Zootaxa, 3362 (1), 54 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3362.1.3" type="journal article" year="2012">
Shibukawa
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE6677C2619061FFDFA3478" box="[528,585,258,284]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="426">et al.</emphasis>
2012
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE6677C249E0031FEBF3221" bold="true" box="[151,268,1837,1861]" pageId="5" pageNumber="426">FIGURE 2</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE6677C251E0031FE723221" box="[279,449,1837,1861]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="426">Alpheus karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE6677C25CF0031FDA53221" bold="true" box="[454,534,1837,1861]" pageId="5" pageNumber="426">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE6677C25CF0031FDA53221" box="[454,534,1837,1861]" pageId="5" pageNumber="426" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
: paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) (FLMNH UF 37016) [AC, FK] and holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) (FLMNH UF 37011) [D, E], both from Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia; A—major (right) cheliped, lateral; B—same, chela, mesial; C—same, ischium, merus and carpus, mesial; D—minor (right) cheliped, chela and carpus, lateral; E, same, ischium, merus and carpus, lateral; F—second pereiopod, lateral; G—third pereiopod, lateral; H—same, propodus and dactylus, lateral; I—same, dactylus, ventral (setae omitted); J—fifth pereiopod, lateral; K—same, propodus and dactylus, mesial.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F249E016EFEBF33EE" bold="true" box="[151,268,1650,1674]" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">FIGURE 3</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F2511016EFE7133EE" box="[280,450,1650,1674]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">Alpheus karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F25C1016EFDAB33EE" bold="true" box="[456,536,1650,1674]" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">
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</emphasis>
, shrimp in life: A, B—paratype female (cl 7.4 mm) from Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37070), general dorsal (A) and lateral (B) views. Photographs by the author.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F24CE01C0FE873392" bold="true" box="[199,308,1756,1782]" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">Remarks</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F254A01C0FDB13392" box="[323,514,1756,1782]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">Alpheus karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F260301C0FDD63392" bold="true" box="[522,613,1756,1782]" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE5677F260301C0FDD63392" box="[522,613,1756,1782]" pageId="6" pageNumber="427" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
has a striking and unmistakable, and therefore highly diagnostic, colour pattern, which is characterised by the presence of rusty-brown spots on a generally pale buff background (
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,
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE5677F249E0038FF1B325A" box="[151,168,1828,1854]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1791,1815]" captionTargetBox="[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetId="figure-25@8.[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 4. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimps in life:A, B—holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37011, left side of the carapace damaged during collection), general dorsal view (A) and detail of frontal region (B); C—paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from the same locality (FLMNH UF 37016), major (right) cheliped, mesial view; D—male from Eilat, Israel (not deposited), dorso-frontal view of cephalothorax with chelipeds and other appendages; E, F, G—shrimps associated with Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960, photographed in situ in Nuweiba (E), Naama Bay near Sharm-el-Sheikh (F) and Safaga (G), Egypt (not collected). Photographs by the author [AC], Dr. Ilan Karplus [D], Sonja Ooms [E], Andrey Ryanskiy [F] and Indra Günther [G]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332837" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332837/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">4</figureCitation>
). This colour pattern is in sharp contrast to all other known patterns among the goby-associated species of the
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F218D0039FE793206" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">
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</emphasis>
complex, separating
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F26B50055FC8A3206" box="[700,825,1864,1891]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F27480054FC2F3206" bold="true" box="[833,924,1864,1890]" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE5677F27480054FC2F3206" box="[833,924,1864,1890]" pageId="6" pageNumber="427" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
at once from
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F20350055FB503206" box="[1084,1251,1864,1891]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. djiboutensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F20FC0055FA803206" box="[1269,1331,1865,1890]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE5677F21350054FF6132E3" author="Holthuis, L. B." pageId="6" pageNumber="427" refId="ref10278" refString="Holthuis, L. B. (1958) Contributions to the knowledge of the Red Sea. No. 8. Crustacea Decapoda from the northern Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba and Sinai Peninsula). I. Macrura. Bulletin of Sea Fisheries Research Station, Haifa, 17, l - 40." type="book" year="1958">Holthuis 1958</bibRefCitation>
),
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F24EE0071FED332E2" box="[231,352,1900,1927]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. bellulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE5677F25670071FDA132E2" authorityName="Chace" authorityYear="1988" box="[366,530,1900,1927]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="427" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macellarius">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F25670071FDA132E2" box="[366,530,1900,1927]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. macellarius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE5677F26280071FD2332E2" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[545,656,1900,1927]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="427" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fenneri">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F26280071FD2332E2" box="[545,656,1900,1927]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE5677F26960071FCFF32E2" authorityName="Purushothaman, Abhilash, Kumar &amp; Lal" authorityYear="2021" box="[671,844,1901,1927]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="427" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mannarensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F26960071FCFF32E2" box="[671,844,1901,1927]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. mannarensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE5677F27520071FC4332E2" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[859,1008,1900,1927]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="427" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F27520071FC4332E2" box="[859,1008,1900,1927]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. thompsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE5677F27F70071FBD132E2" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[1022,1122,1900,1927]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="427" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sciolii">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F27F70071FBD132E2" box="[1022,1122,1900,1927]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. sciolii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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Anker
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. 2015
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;
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), as well as the species called “
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F257900A9FDD632AA" box="[368,613,1972,1999]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. purpurilenticularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
” [
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F268B00A9FC9332AA" box="[642,800,1972,1998]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">nomen nudum</emphasis>
] by
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE5677F275D00A8FBF032AA" author="Karplus, I. &amp; Szlep, R. &amp; Tsurnamal, M." box="[852,1091,1972,1998]" pageId="6" pageNumber="427" pagination="1 - 19" refId="ref10439" refString="Karplus, I., Szlep, R. &amp; Tsurnamal, M. (1981) Goby-shrimp partner specificity. I. Distribution in the northern Red Sea and partner specificity. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 51, 1 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / 0022 - 0981 (81) 90151 - 9" type="journal article" year="1981">
Karplus
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F27BC00A9FC5E32AA" box="[949,1005,1972,1998]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">et al.</emphasis>
(1981)
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. The colour pattern of
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE5677F214A00A9FF6E3296" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="427">A. djeddensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
currently remains unknown, but the preliminary results of a morphological analysis of the
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material morphologically corresponding best to
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E2650078BFD4235D5" box="[601,753,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djeddensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
show that this species colour pattern is also very different from that of
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E252C07A7FE1235B1" box="[293,417,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25A107A7FDB135B1" bold="true" box="[424,514,187,213]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE4677E25A107A7FDB135B1" box="[424,514,187,213]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(A. Anker, in prep.). It is perhaps noteworthy that two more distantly related species of the
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E250607C3FE1D359D" baseAuthorityName="Olivier" baseAuthorityYear="1811" box="[271,430,223,249]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brevirostris">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E250607C3FE1D359D" box="[271,430,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. brevirostris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group, namely
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E265207C3FC22359D" authority="De Man, 1909" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1909" box="[603,913,223,249]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pubescens">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E265207C3FD5F359D" box="[603,748,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. pubescens</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E26FB07C3FC22359D" author="De Man, J. G." box="[754,913,223,249]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="99 - 125" refId="ref10132" refString="De Man, J. G. (1909) Diagnoses of new species of macrurous decapod Crustacea from the &quot; Siboga-Expedition &quot;. Tijdschrift der Nederlandse Dierkundige Vereeniging, 2, 99 - 125." type="journal article" year="1909">De Man, 1909</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E27CF07C3FB6F359D" authority="Bruce, 1994" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[966,1244,223,249]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="williamsi">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E27CF07C3FBF8359D" box="[966,1099,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. williamsi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E205807C3FB6F359D" author="Bruce, A. J." box="[1105,1244,223,249]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="15 - 28" refId="ref9873" refString="Bruce, A. J. (1994) Alpheus fenneri sp. nov. and A. williamsi sp. nov., two new Indo-West Pacific alpheid shrimps of the brevirostris species group. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 11, 15 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 264023" type="journal article" year="1994">Bruce, 1994</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, also have brown spots and blotches, but not as distinct and well-separated as in the new species (cf.
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E2031061FFB0F3479" author="Bruce, A. J." box="[1080,1212,259,285]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="15 - 28" refId="ref9873" refString="Bruce, A. J. (1994) Alpheus fenneri sp. nov. and A. williamsi sp. nov., two new Indo-West Pacific alpheid shrimps of the brevirostris species group. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 11, 15 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 264023" type="journal article" year="1994">Bruce 1994</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E20CE061FFF673426" author="Anker, A. &amp; De Grave, S." pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="343 - 454" refId="ref9723" refString="Anker, A. &amp; De Grave, S. (2016) An updated and annotated checklist of marine and brackish caridean shrimps of Singapore (Crustacea, Decapoda). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 34, 343 - 454." type="journal article" year="2016">Anker &amp; De Grave 2016</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE4677E24CE0657FEC13175" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,2014]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
Based on morphological grounds alone,
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E26820657FCB43401" box="[651,775,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E27040657FCD43401" bold="true" box="[781,871,331,357]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE4677E27040657FCD43401" box="[781,871,331,357]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
can be easily separated from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E20BA0657FAFB3401" authorityName="Coutiere" authorityYear="1897" box="[1203,1352,331,357]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djeddensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20BA0657FAFB3401" box="[1203,1352,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djeddensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E215F0657FE3634ED" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E215F0657FEB034ED" baseAuthorityName="Anker &amp; De Grave" baseAuthorityYear="2016" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djiboutensis">A. djiboutensis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E25070673FE3634ED" authorityName="Miya &amp; Miyake" authorityYear="1969" box="[270,389,367,393]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bellulus">A. bellulus</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E259B0673FDB334ED" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[402,512,367,393]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fenneri">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E259B0673FDB334ED" box="[402,512,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E263F0673FD2B34ED" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[566,664,367,393]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sciolii">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E263F0673FD2B34ED" box="[566,664,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. sciolii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the minor chela being much slenderer and lacking balaeniceps setae; these are present at least in males (or possibly in both sexes) in all the other species (cf.
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E209C068FFA8434C9" author="Coutiere, H." box="[1173,1335,403,429]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="91 - 560" refId="ref10031" refString="Coutiere, H. (1899) Les &quot; Alpheidae &quot;, morphologie externe et interne, formes larvaires, bionomie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, 8, 91 - 560. Masson, Paris. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 13143" type="journal article" year="1899">Coutière 1899</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E214B068FFF6134B5" author="De Man, J. G." pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="99 - 125" refId="ref10132" refString="De Man, J. G. (1909) Diagnoses of new species of macrurous decapod Crustacea from the &quot; Siboga-Expedition &quot;. Tijdschrift der Nederlandse Dierkundige Vereeniging, 2, 99 - 125." type="journal article" year="1909">De Man 1909</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E24D406ABFE6334B5" author="Miya, Y. &amp; Miyake, S." box="[221,464,439,465]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="307 - 314" refId="ref10639" refString="Miya, Y. &amp; Miyake, S. (1969) Description of Alpheus bellulus sp. nov. associated with gobies from Japan (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 16, 307 - 314. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 175556" type="journal article" year="1969">Miya &amp; Miyake 1969</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E25D206ABFDED34B5" author="Bruce, A. J." box="[475,606,439,465]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="15 - 28" refId="ref9873" refString="Bruce, A. J. (1994) Alpheus fenneri sp. nov. and A. williamsi sp. nov., two new Indo-West Pacific alpheid shrimps of the brevirostris species group. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 11, 15 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 264023" type="journal article" year="1994">Bruce 1994</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E266E06ABFD4334B5" author="Anker, A." box="[615,752,439,465]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="273 - 290" refId="ref9604" refString="Anker, A. (2022) Description of two new species of goby-associated snapping shrimps from the tropical western Pacific (Decapoda: Alpheidae: Alpheus). Zootaxa, 5092 (3), 273 - 290. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5092.3.2" type="journal article" year="2022">Anker 2022</bibRefCitation>
). In addition,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E278E06ABFBB234B5" authority="Anker, 2022" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[903,1025,439,465]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karplusi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E278E06ABFBB234B5" box="[903,1025,439,465]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E200E06ABFBEC34B5" bold="true" box="[1031,1119,439,465]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE4677E200E06ABFBEC34B5" box="[1031,1119,439,465]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
differs from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E20F906ABFA2634B5" baseAuthorityName="Anker &amp; De Grave" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[1264,1429,439,465]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djiboutensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20F906ABFA2634B5" box="[1264,1429,439,465]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djiboutensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E249E06C7FEA33491" authorityName="Miya &amp; Miyake" authorityYear="1969" box="[151,272,475,501]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bellulus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E249E06C7FEA33491" box="[151,272,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. bellulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E254006C7FE1E3491" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[329,429,475,501]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sciolii">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E254006C7FE1E3491" box="[329,429,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. sciolii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the noticeably slenderer cheliped meri, especially that of the minor cheliped; from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E218D06C7FEBE377D" authorityName="Coutiere" authorityYear="1897" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djeddensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E218D06C7FEBE377D" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djeddensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E254A06E3FE02377D" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[323,433,511,537]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fenneri">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E254A06E3FE02377D" box="[323,433,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the strongly concave lateral margin of the antennal scaphocerite (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20BC06E3FB7F377C" box="[1205,1228,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. almost straight in the other two species); from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E25DE053FFDCE3759" baseAuthorityName="Anker &amp; De Grave" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[471,637,547,573]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djiboutensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25DE053FFDCE3759" box="[471,637,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djiboutensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E26BA053FFCFB3759" authorityName="Coutiere" authorityYear="1897" box="[691,840,547,573]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djeddensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E26BA053FFCFB3759" box="[691,840,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djeddensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the glabrous carapace and pleon (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20EE053FFAB53758" box="[1255,1286,547,572]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs.</emphasis>
with more or less developed pubescence in the other two species); from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E2722055BFC623705" baseAuthorityName="Anker &amp; De Grave" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[811,977,583,609]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djiboutensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E2722055BFC623705" box="[811,977,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djiboutensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E2001055BFBDF3705" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[1032,1132,583,609]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sciolii">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E2001055BFBDF3705" box="[1032,1132,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. sciolii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the distolateral tooth of the antennal scaphocerite only slightly overreaching the blade (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E276E0577FCCD37E0" box="[871,894,619,644]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. reaching far beyond the blade in the other two species); from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E25370593FE5637CD" baseAuthorityName="Anker &amp; De Grave" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[318,485,655,681]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djiboutensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25370593FE5637CD" box="[318,485,655,681]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djiboutensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E26140593FD2637CD" authorityName="Miya &amp; Miyake" authorityYear="1969" box="[541,661,655,681]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bellulus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E26140593FD2637CD" box="[541,661,655,681]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. bellulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the noticeably slenderer major chela, with the palm twice as long as high (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E24F005AFFEA337A8" box="[249,272,691,716]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. at most 1.5 times in the other two species); from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E274205AFFC7737A9" authorityName="Miya &amp; Miyake" authorityYear="1969" box="[843,964,691,717]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bellulus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E274205AFFC7737A9" box="[843,964,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. bellulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E27F505AFFBD837A9" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[1020,1131,691,717]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fenneri">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E27F505AFFBD837A9" box="[1020,1131,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the less protruding rostro-orbital area and the second pereiopod with the first carpal subarticle clearly longer than the second (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E212A05CBFA893794" box="[1315,1338,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. the two being subequal in length in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E25C605E7FDF43671" authorityName="Miya &amp; Miyake" authorityYear="1969" box="[463,583,763,789]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bellulus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25C605E7FDF43671" box="[463,583,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. bellulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E267705E7FD5F3671" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[638,748,763,789]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fenneri">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E267705E7FD5F3671" box="[638,748,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E274A05E7FC083671" authorityName="Miya &amp; Miyake" authorityYear="1969" box="[835,955,763,789]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bellulus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E274A05E7FC083671" box="[835,955,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. bellulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the broader rostral carina and slenderer third pereiopod (noticeable in the width-length proportions of the merus); from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E201A0403FB32365D" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[1043,1153,799,825]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fenneri">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E201A0403FB32365D" box="[1043,1153,799,825]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, a much larger species at cl 19.523.0 mm, by the smooth major chela palm (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E26D7045FFD463638" box="[734,757,835,860]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. strongly granulated in
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E2008045FFBDC3639" box="[1025,1135,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), the ventral margin of the male minor chela almost straight (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E261D047BFD9836E4" box="[532,555,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. conspicuously convex in
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E275B047BFC7336E5" box="[850,960,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and the distoventral margin of the penultimate article of the third maxilliped furnished with a tuft of relatively few, moderately long setae (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20E20497FAB136C0" box="[1259,1282,907,932]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. with a dense field of numerous, elongate setae in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E263804B3FD2C36AD" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[561,671,943,969]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fenneri">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E263804B3FD2C36AD" box="[561,671,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, see also below); and from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E27D004B3FB8F36AD" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[985,1084,943,969]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sciolii">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E27D004B3FB8F36AD" box="[985,1084,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. sciolii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the significantly longer and slenderer penultimate and ultimate articles of the third maxilliped (cf.
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E27A504CFFBF93689" author="De Man, J. G." box="[940,1098,979,1005]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="99 - 125" refId="ref10132" refString="De Man, J. G. (1909) Diagnoses of new species of macrurous decapod Crustacea from the &quot; Siboga-Expedition &quot;. Tijdschrift der Nederlandse Dierkundige Vereeniging, 2, 99 - 125." type="journal article" year="1909">De Man 1909</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E205F04CFFAFE3689" author="Miya, Y. &amp; Miyake, S." box="[1110,1357,979,1005]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="307 - 314" refId="ref10639" refString="Miya, Y. &amp; Miyake, S. (1969) Description of Alpheus bellulus sp. nov. associated with gobies from Japan (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 16, 307 - 314. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 175556" type="journal article" year="1969">Miya &amp; Miyake 1969</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E215004CFFF613175" author="Bruce, A. J." pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="15 - 28" refId="ref9873" refString="Bruce, A. J. (1994) Alpheus fenneri sp. nov. and A. williamsi sp. nov., two new Indo-West Pacific alpheid shrimps of the brevirostris species group. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 11, 15 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 264023" type="journal article" year="1994">Bruce 1994</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E24D504EBFED53175" author="Anker, A." box="[220,358,1015,1041]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="273 - 290" refId="ref9604" refString="Anker, A. (2022) Description of two new species of goby-associated snapping shrimps from the tropical western Pacific (Decapoda: Alpheidae: Alpheus). Zootaxa, 5092 (3), 273 - 290. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5092.3.2" type="journal article" year="2022">Anker 2022</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE4677E24CE0307FB6A336D" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,2014]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
The remaining three described species of the
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E26C50307FB953151" box="[716,1062,1051,1077]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E26C50307FCD03151" authorityName="Coutiere" authorityYear="1897" box="[716,867,1051,1077]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djeddensis">A. djeddensis</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E27760307FB953151" baseAuthorityName="Anker &amp; De Grave" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[895,1062,1051,1077]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djiboutensis">A. djiboutensis</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
complex, viz.
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E20D90307FAC63151" authorityName="Chace" authorityYear="1988" box="[1232,1397,1051,1077]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macellarius">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20D90307FAC63151" box="[1232,1397,1051,1077]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. macellarius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E218D0307FE96313C" authorityName="Purushothaman, Abhilash, Kumar &amp; Lal" authorityYear="2021" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mannarensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E218D0307FE96313C" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. mannarensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E253D0323FE7B313D" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[308,456,1087,1113]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E253D0323FE7B313D" box="[308,456,1087,1113]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. thompsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, have similarly slender major and minor chelipeds, without balaeniceps setae or with a reduced balaeniceps condition. Nevertheless,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E269B037FFCBF3119" authority="Anker, 2022" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[658,780,1123,1149]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karplusi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E269B037FFCBF3119" box="[658,780,1123,1149]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E271B037FFCD83119" bold="true" box="[786,875,1123,1149]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE4677E271B037FFCD83119" box="[786,875,1123,1149]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
may be morphologically separated from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E213B037FFF6B31C5" authorityName="Chace" authorityYear="1988" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macellarius">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E213B037FFF6B31C5" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. macellarius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the ventromesial margin of the chelipeds distally unarmed (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E279F039BFC1E31C4" box="[918,941,1159,1184]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. armed with a sharp tooth in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E20F9039BFA2031C5" authorityName="Chace" authorityYear="1988" box="[1264,1427,1159,1185]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macellarius">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20F9039BFA2031C5" box="[1264,1427,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. macellarius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and the shorter carpocerite, the latter not reaching the distal margin of the scaphocerite blade (vs. overreaching it in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E218D03B7FEA8318D" authorityName="Chace" authorityYear="1988" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macellarius">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E218D03B7FEA8318D" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. macellarius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) (cf.
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E255E03D3FE6C318D" author="Chace, F. A. Jr." box="[343,479,1231,1257]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="1 - 99" refId="ref9942" refString="Chace, F. A. Jr. (1988) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910, Part 5: Family Alpheidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 466, 1 - 99. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 19436696.391.1" type="journal article" year="1988">Chace 1988</bibRefCitation>
). The new species can be easily separated from both
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E202103D3FB67318C" authorityName="Purushothaman, Abhilash, Kumar &amp; Lal" authorityYear="2021" box="[1064,1236,1231,1257]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mannarensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E202103D3FB67318C" box="[1064,1236,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. mannarensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E210003D3FA2E318D" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[1289,1437,1231,1257]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E210003D3FA2E318D" box="[1289,1437,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. thompsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the second pereiopod carpus with the first subarticle clearly longer than the second (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E205103EFFBDC3068" box="[1112,1135,1267,1292]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. with the second subarticle distinctly longer than the first in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E2609020BFD1F3054" authorityName="Purushothaman, Abhilash, Kumar &amp; Lal" authorityYear="2021" box="[512,684,1303,1329]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mannarensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E2609020BFD1F3054" box="[512,684,1303,1329]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. mannarensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or with the first and second subequal in length in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E20DB020BFAD63055" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[1234,1381,1303,1329]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20DB020BFAD63055" box="[1234,1381,1303,1329]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. thompsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and the penultimate article of the third maxilliped furnished with a tuft of relatively few, moderately long setae on its distoventral margin (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25890243FE24301C" box="[384,407,1375,1400]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. with a field of more numerous and much longer setae in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E201E0243FB70301C" authorityName="Purushothaman, Abhilash, Kumar &amp; Lal" authorityYear="2021" box="[1047,1219,1375,1401]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mannarensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E201E0243FB70301C" box="[1047,1219,1375,1401]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. mannarensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E20F10243FA38301D" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[1272,1419,1375,1401]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20F10243FA38301D" box="[1272,1419,1375,1401]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. thompsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); individually from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E2568029FFDBE30F8" authorityName="Purushothaman, Abhilash, Kumar &amp; Lal" authorityYear="2021" box="[353,525,1411,1437]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mannarensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E2568029FFDBE30F8" box="[353,525,1411,1437]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. mannarensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the mesial surface of the major and minor chelae not conspicuously granulated (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E24A802BBFF0B30A4" box="[161,184,1447,1472]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. faintly granulated in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E25A602BBFDEF30A4" authorityName="Purushothaman, Abhilash, Kumar &amp; Lal" authorityYear="2021" box="[431,604,1447,1473]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mannarensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25A602BBFDEF30A4" box="[431,604,1447,1473]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. mannarensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, although probably not as strongly as in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E202B02BBFB2330A5" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[1058,1168,1447,1473]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fenneri">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E202B02BBFB2330A5" box="[1058,1168,1447,1473]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); and individually from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E249E02D7FE983081" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[151,299,1483,1509]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E249E02D7FE983081" box="[151,299,1483,1509]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. thompsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the presence of at least three spiniform setae on the cheliped meri (
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E203602D7FBE53080" box="[1087,1110,1483,1508]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">vs</emphasis>
. their absence or presence of only one spiniform seta in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E25CA02F3FDE4336D" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[451,599,1519,1545]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25CA02F3FDE4336D" box="[451,599,1519,1545]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. thompsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) (cf.
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Purushothaman
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E274002F3FCC9336D" box="[841,890,1519,1545]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">et al</emphasis>
. 2021
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E27C402F3FBE5336D" author="Anker, A." box="[973,1110,1519,1545]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="273 - 290" refId="ref9604" refString="Anker, A. (2022) Description of two new species of goby-associated snapping shrimps from the tropical western Pacific (Decapoda: Alpheidae: Alpheus). Zootaxa, 5092 (3), 273 - 290. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5092.3.2" type="journal article" year="2022">Anker 2022</bibRefCitation>
;
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE4677E206802F3FB1C336D" box="[1121,1199,1519,1545]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="11.[151,250,1779,1803]" captionTargetBox="[178,1401,646,1730]" captionTargetId="figure-219@11.[176,1412,632,1755]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="FIGURE 6. Alpheus thompsoni Anker, 2022: male (cl 10.0 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37002): A—frontal region, dorsal; B—same, lateral; C—telson, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); D—tooth on ventromesial carina of first article of antennular peduncle, lateral; E—third maxilliped, lateral; F—second pleopod, detail of appendix masculina and appendix interna; G—uropod, dorsal (plumose setae omitted); H—same, detail of spiniform setae on distal margin of endopod (plumose setae omitted)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332841" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332841/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">Figs. 6</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE4677E20B202F3FB78336D" box="[1211,1227,1519,1545]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="12.[151,250,1707,1731]" captionTargetBox="[164,1418,191,1675]" captionTargetId="figure-25@12.[151,1436,181,1683]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURE 7. Alpheus thompsoni Anker, 2022: male (cl 10.0 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37002): A—major (right) cheliped, mesial; B—same, carpus and chela, lateral; C—same, dactylus, lateral (setae omitted); D—minor (left) cheliped, mesial; E—same, carpus and chela, lateral; F—same, ischium, merus and carpus, lateral (setae omitted); G—second pereiopod, lateral; H—third pereiopod, lateral; I—same, propodus and dactylus, ventrolateral; J—same, dactylus, ventral (setae on propodus omitted); K—fourth pereiopod, propodus and dactylus; L—fifth pereiopod, lateral; M—same, propodus and dactylus, lateral." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332843" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332843/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">7</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE4677E24CE010FFF493215" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,2014]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
The development of setae on the ventral margin of the penultimate article of the third maxilliped was briefly mentioned and illustrated by
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E25EB012BFC923335" author="Banner, D. M. &amp; Banner, A. H." box="[482,801,1591,1617]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" refId="ref9766" refString="Banner, D. M. &amp; Banner, A. H. (1981) Annotated checklist of the alpheid shrimp of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 190, l - 99." type="book" year="1981">Banner &amp; Banner (1981: 21</bibRefCitation>
, fig. 1i, j), who concluded that they represent a variable feature. However, it seems that the development of these setae is in fact species-specific and two groups can be distinguished. They are denser and extremely elongate, reaching almost to the end of the ultimate article, in some specimens identified as
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25AC01BFFDFF33D9" box="[421,588,1699,1725]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djiboutensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
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, and also in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E202B01BFFB2833D9" authorityName="Miya &amp; Miyake" authorityYear="1969" box="[1058,1179,1699,1725]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bellulus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E202B01BFFB2833D9" box="[1058,1179,1699,1725]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. bellulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E20A001BFFAAB33D9" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[1193,1304,1699,1725]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fenneri">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E20A001BFFAAB33D9" box="[1193,1304,1699,1725]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. fenneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E212E01BFFF6A3384" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. mannarensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E251901DBFE163385" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[272,421,1735,1761]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E251901DBFE163385" box="[272,421,1735,1761]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. thompsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E25BD01DBFD1E3385" author="Miya, Y. &amp; Miyake, S." box="[436,685,1735,1761]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="307 - 314" refId="ref10639" refString="Miya, Y. &amp; Miyake, S. (1969) Description of Alpheus bellulus sp. nov. associated with gobies from Japan (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 16, 307 - 314. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 175556" type="journal article" year="1969">Miya &amp; Miyake 1969</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E26B001DBFC8D3385" author="Bruce, A. J." box="[697,830,1735,1761]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="15 - 28" refId="ref9873" refString="Bruce, A. J. (1994) Alpheus fenneri sp. nov. and A. williamsi sp. nov., two new Indo-West Pacific alpheid shrimps of the brevirostris species group. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 11, 15 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 264023" type="journal article" year="1994">Bruce 1994</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E274201DBFBC83385" author="Purushothaman, P. &amp; Abhilash, C. P. &amp; Ajith Kumar, T. T. &amp; Lal, K. K." box="[843,1147,1735,1761]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="127 - 135" refId="ref10977" refString="Purushothaman, P., Abhilash, C. P., Ajith Kumar, T. T. &amp; Lal, K. K. (2021) A new alpheid shrimp, Alpheus mannarensis sp. nov. (Crustacea; Decapoda; Alpheidae) from Gulf of Mannar, southern India. Zootaxa, 5026, 127 - 135. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5026.1.5" type="journal article" year="2021">
Purushothaman
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E200901DBFB8A3385" box="[1024,1081,1735,1761]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">et al.</emphasis>
2021
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E208F01DBFABC3385" author="Anker, A." box="[1158,1295,1735,1761]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="273 - 290" refId="ref9604" refString="Anker, A. (2022) Description of two new species of goby-associated snapping shrimps from the tropical western Pacific (Decapoda: Alpheidae: Alpheus). Zootaxa, 5092 (3), 273 - 290. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5092.3.2" type="journal article" year="2022">Anker 2022</bibRefCitation>
;
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). In contrast, they are less somewhat numerous and only moderately elongate, i.e. barely reaching the distal half of the ultimate article, in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E25640013FCDF324D" authority="sensu Banner &amp; Banner (1982)" authorityName="sensu Banner &amp; Banner" authorityYear="1982" box="[365,876,1807,1833]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="djeddensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25640013FDFA324C" box="[365,585,1807,1833]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djeddensis sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E26590013FCDF324D" author="Banner, D. M. &amp; Banner, A. H." box="[592,876,1807,1833]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="1 - 357" refId="ref9808" refString="Banner, D. M. &amp; Banner, A. H. (1982) The alpheid shrimp of Australia, part III: the remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum, 34, 1 - 357. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.34.1982.434" type="journal article" year="1982">Banner &amp; Banner (1982)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, some specimens of
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E205E0013FAF0324C" box="[1111,1347,1807,1833]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. djiboutensis sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE4677E21420013FEEB3229" author="Banner, D. M. &amp; Banner, A. H." pageId="7" pageNumber="428" pagination="1 - 357" refId="ref9808" refString="Banner, D. M. &amp; Banner, A. H. (1982) The alpheid shrimp of Australia, part III: the remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum, 34, 1 - 357. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.34.1982.434" type="journal article" year="1982">Banner &amp; Banner (1982)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, as well as in
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E25FB002FFD263229" authorityName="Chace" authorityYear="1988" box="[498,661,1843,1869]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macellarius">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25FB002FFD263229" box="[498,661,1843,1869]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. macellarius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E26AA002FFCB53229" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[675,774,1843,1869]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sciolii">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E26AA002FFCB53229" box="[675,774,1843,1869]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. sciolii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E2735002FFC043229" authority="Anker, 2022" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[828,951,1843,1869]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karplusi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E2735002FFC043229" box="[828,951,1843,1869]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E27B4002FFBA53229" bold="true" box="[957,1046,1843,1869]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE4677E27B4002FFBA53229" box="[957,1046,1843,1869]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(
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; A. Anker, pers. obs.;
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).
</paragraph>
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The distribution range of
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E25FB0067FDC232F1" box="[498,625,1915,1941]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E26720067FD6B32F1" bold="true" box="[635,728,1915,1941]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE4677E26720067FD6B32F1" box="[635,728,1915,1941]" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
appears to be restricted to the Red Sea (
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE4677E20BE0067FB4A32F1" box="[1207,1273,1915,1941]" name="Israel" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">Israel</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE4677E21010067FAFD32F1" box="[1288,1358,1915,1941]" name="Egypt" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">Egypt</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE4677E21540067FF5B32DE" name="Saudi Arabia" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">Saudi Arabia</collectingCountry>
). All photographic records of “
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E26420083FCAD32DD" box="[587,798,1951,1977]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubromaculatus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E26420083FCAD32DD" box="[587,798,1951,1977]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A. rubromaculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
” outside of the Red Sea most probably refer to a closely related, undescribed species, hereafter
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE4677E267A00DFFC9332B9" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[627,800,1987,2013]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="7" pageNumber="428" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karplusi">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E267A00DFFD3832B9" box="[627,651,1987,2013]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">A.</emphasis>
aff.
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE4677E26CD00DFFC9332B9" box="[708,800,1987,2013]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="428">karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Anker, pers. obs.). These records include three colour photographs of “
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE967732552078BFE0635D5" box="[347,437,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Alpheus</emphasis>
sp. 8
</taxonomicName>
&amp; 9” from
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and
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE967732724078BFC2935D5" box="[813,922,151,177]" name="Indonesia" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Indonesia</collectingCountry>
in
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE9677327CC078BFA8335D5" author="Kuiter, R. H. &amp; Debelius, H." box="[965,1328,150,177]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" refId="ref10580" refString="Kuiter, R. H. &amp; Debelius, H. (2009) World atlas of marine fauna. IKAN, Frankfurt, 725 pp." type="book" year="2009">Kuiter &amp; Debelius (2009: 153)</bibRefCitation>
; a blackand-white photograph of “
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677325CB07A6FD2735B7" box="[450,660,185,212]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubromaculatus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677325CB07A6FD2735B7" box="[450,660,185,212]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A. rubromaculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
” from
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE9677326EE07A5FCFD35B7" box="[743,846,185,211]" name="Malaysia" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Malaysia</collectingCountry>
(same photograph as in
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE96773206C07A5FAC435B7" author="Kuiter, R. H. &amp; Debelius, H." box="[1125,1399,185,211]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" refId="ref10580" refString="Kuiter, R. H. &amp; Debelius, H. (2009) World atlas of marine fauna. IKAN, Frankfurt, 725 pp." type="book" year="2009">Kuiter &amp; Debelius 2009</bibRefCitation>
) in
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE96773249E07C0FDA73593" author="Karplus, I. &amp; Thompson, A. R." box="[151,532,220,247]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" pagination="559 - 608" refId="ref10504" refString="Karplus, I. &amp; Thompson, A. R. (2011) The partnership between gobiid fishes and burrowing alpheid shrimps. In: Patzner, R. A., Van Tassell, J. L., Kovacic, M. &amp; Kapoor, B. G. (Eds.), The biology of gobies. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire, pp. 559 - 608." type="book chapter" year="2011">Karplus &amp; Thompson (2011: 591</bibRefCitation>
, fig. 4.4.10-C); two colour photographs of “
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773200607C0FB523592" box="[1039,1249,220,246]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubromaculatus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773200607C0FB523592" box="[1039,1249,220,246]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A. rubromaculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
” from
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE96773213F07C0FA2E3592" box="[1334,1437,220,246]" name="Malaysia" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Malaysia</collectingCountry>
(Mabul) and
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE96773252007E3FE25347D" box="[297,406,255,281]" name="Indonesia" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Indonesia</collectingCountry>
(
<collectingRegion id="D5049FA3FFE9677325AC07E3FE65347E" box="[421,470,255,282]" country="Indonesia" name="Bali" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Bali</collectingRegion>
) in
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE96773260B07E3FD47347D" author="Debelius, H." box="[514,756,254,281]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" refId="ref10187" refString="Debelius, H. (2001) Crustacea guide of the world. IKAN, Frankfurt, 321 pp." type="book" year="2001">Debelius (2001: 153)</bibRefCitation>
; a colour photograph of “
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773201A07E3FB19347D" box="[1043,1194,254,281]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undefined-5">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773201A07E3FBDE347D" box="[1043,1133,255,281]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Alpheus</emphasis>
sp. 5
</taxonomicName>
” in
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE9677320D007E3FF7D345F" author="Minemizu, R." pageId="10" pageNumber="431" refId="ref10607" refString="Minemizu, R. (2013) Coral reef shrimps of Indo-West Pacific. Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan, Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 144 pp. [in Japanese]" type="book" year="2013">Minemizu (2013: 103)</bibRefCitation>
; and several previously unpublished colour photographs from the
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE9677327C3063DFBF8345F" box="[970,1099,289,315]" name="Philippines" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Philippines</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE967732050063DFB7A345F" box="[1113,1225,289,315]" name="Indonesia" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Indonesia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE9677320DF063DFA98345F" box="[1238,1323,289,315]" name="Taiwan" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Taiwan</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE967732130063DFF55343A" name="Marshall Islands" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Marshall Islands</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE9677325170658FE38343A" box="[286,395,324,350]" name="Mauritius" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Mauritius</collectingCountry>
(
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). The main differences between the colour patterns of
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677320410658FBD3343A" box="[1096,1120,324,350]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A.</emphasis>
aff.
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773209C0658FB42343A" box="[1173,1265,324,350]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE9677321090658FAF0343B" box="[1280,1347,324,351]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="9.[151,250,1766,1790]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 5. Alpheus aff. karplusi, shrimps with their goby partners photographed in situ: A—shrimp associated with Lotilia klausewitzi Shibukawa, Hirata &amp; Senou, 2012 in Romblon, Philippines; B, C—shrimp associated with L. klausewitzi in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; D—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus albidorsus (Yanagisawa, 1978) in Dongbei Jiao, Taiwan; E—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus malindiensis (Smith, 1959) in Trou aux Biches, Mauritius; F—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther, 1872) in Bali, Indonesia. See text for further details. Photographs by Rickard Zerpe [A], Scott and Jeanette Johnson [B, C], Jimmy Cheng [D], Charlene Stenton-Dozey / Dive Spirit Mauritius [E] and Vincent Chalias [F]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332839" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332839/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
) and
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773218D0658FF4034E5" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677324F3067BFEE734E5" bold="true" box="[250,340,359,385]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE9677324F3067BFEE734E5" box="[250,340,359,385]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(
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,
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE9677325BD067BFE7034E5" box="[436,451,359,385]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1791,1815]" captionTargetBox="[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetId="figure-25@8.[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 4. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimps in life:A, B—holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37011, left side of the carapace damaged during collection), general dorsal view (A) and detail of frontal region (B); C—paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from the same locality (FLMNH UF 37016), major (right) cheliped, mesial view; D—male from Eilat, Israel (not deposited), dorso-frontal view of cephalothorax with chelipeds and other appendages; E, F, G—shrimps associated with Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960, photographed in situ in Nuweiba (E), Naama Bay near Sharm-el-Sheikh (F) and Safaga (G), Egypt (not collected). Photographs by the author [AC], Dr. Ilan Karplus [D], Sonja Ooms [E], Andrey Ryanskiy [F] and Indra Günther [G]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332837" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332837/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">4</figureCitation>
) are the clearly more yellow-green tinge of the body and appendages in the former species, including the more yellow-greenish chelipeds, bright yellow walking legs and conspicuously yellow or orange antennal flagella, as well as the spots on the carapace and pleon being more rounded and more dark red-purple in
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773218D06B0FA2E34A2" box="[1412,1437,428,454]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A.</emphasis>
aff.
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677324CD06D3FE93348D" box="[196,288,463,489]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
instead of rusty-brown, as in
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773267906D3FD58348D" box="[624,747,463,489]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A. karplusi</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677326FB06D3FCFF348D" bold="true" box="[754,844,463,489]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE9677326FB06D3FCFF348D" box="[754,844,463,489]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
In addition,
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677327D506D3FC46348D" box="[988,1013,463,489]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A.</emphasis>
aff.
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773202006D3FB36348D" box="[1065,1157,463,489]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
associates with different species of gobies and is allopatrically isolated from
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677326E506EEFCDA376F" authority="Anker, 2022" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[748,873,497,524]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karplusi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677326E506EEFCDA376F" box="[748,873,497,524]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773277B06EDFC7D376F" bold="true" box="[882,974,497,523]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE96773277B06EDFC7D376F" box="[882,974,497,523]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(see below). This widespread but as yet unnamed species, which is often incorrectly referred to as “
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677327300508FBB8374A" box="[825,1035,532,558]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A. rubromaculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
” (e.g.
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;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE9677321050508FF613735" author="Pinault, M. &amp; Fricke, R. &amp; Wickel, J. &amp; Peneau, C. &amp; Quod, J. P." pageId="10" pageNumber="431" pagination="237 - 239" refId="ref10814" refString="Pinault, M., Fricke, R., Wickel, J., Peneau, C. &amp; Quod, J. P. (2015) First record of the chocolate shrimp-goby (Gobiidae: Cryptocentrus malindiensis) from Reunion Island with a brief description of its natural habitat. Cybium, 39, 237 - 239." type="journal article" year="2015">
Pinault
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773216A0509FA2E374A" box="[1379,1437,532,558]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">et al.</emphasis>
2015
</bibRefCitation>
; marine aquarium trade), will be described when material becomes available for study.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="177F5141FFEB6771249E01E3FDB8328B" blockId="8.[151,1437,1791,2031]" pageId="8" pageNumber="429">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEB6771249E01E3FEBE3273" bold="true" box="[151,269,1791,1815]" pageId="8" pageNumber="429">FIGURE 4</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEB6771251001E3FE703273" box="[281,451,1791,1815]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="429">Alpheus karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFEB677125C001E3FDAA3273" box="[457,537,1791,1815]" pageId="8" pageNumber="429" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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, shrimps in life: A, B—holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37011, left side of the carapace damaged during collection), general dorsal view (A) and detail of frontal region (B); C—paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from the same locality (FLMNH UF 37016), major (right) cheliped, mesial view; D—male from Eilat, Israel (not deposited), dorso-frontal view of cephalothorax with chelipeds and other appendages; E, F, G—shrimps associated with
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEB677125350093FE5D32C3" box="[316,494,1935,1959]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="429">Lotilia graciliosa</emphasis>
Klausewitz, 1960
</taxonomicName>
, photographed
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in Nuweiba (E), Naama Bay near Sharm-el-Sheikh (F) and Safaga (G), Egypt (not collected). Photographs by the author [AC], Dr. Ilan Karplus [D], Sonja Ooms [E], Andrey Ryanskiy [F] and Indra Günther [G].
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph id="177F5141FFEA6770249E01FAFF0E32B1" blockId="9.[151,1437,1766,2005]" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEA6770249E01FAFEBC339A" bold="true" box="[151,271,1766,1790]" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">FIGURE 5</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEA6770251401FAFEDC339A" box="[285,367,1766,1790]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">Alpheus</emphasis>
aff.
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEA677025A901FAFE40339A" box="[416,499,1766,1790]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, shrimps with their goby partners photographed
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEA677027E501FBFB9E339A" box="[1004,1069,1767,1790]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">in situ</emphasis>
: A—shrimp associated with
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEA6770215001FAFEBB3246" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">Lotilia klausewitzi</emphasis>
Shibukawa, Hirata &amp; Senou, 2012
</taxonomicName>
in Romblon, Philippines; B, C—shrimp associated with
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEA677020BF0017FAF13246" box="[1206,1346,1802,1826]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">L. klausewitzi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; D—shrimp associated with
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEA677026B10032FC0F3222" box="[696,956,1838,1862]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">Cryptocentrus albidorsus</emphasis>
(Yanagisawa, 1978)
</taxonomicName>
in Dongbei Jiao, Taiwan; E—shrimp associated with
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEA677025A2004EFD72320E" box="[427,705,1874,1898]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">Cryptocentrus malindiensis</emphasis>
(Smith, 1959)
</taxonomicName>
in Trou aux Biches, Mauritius; F—shrimp associated with
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFEA6770249E006AFE1432EA" box="[151,423,1910,1934]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="430">Cryptocentrus leucostictus</emphasis>
(Günther, 1872)
</taxonomicName>
in Bali, Indonesia. See text for further details. Photographs by Rickard Zerpe [A], Scott and Jeanette Johnson [B, C], Jimmy Cheng [D], Charlene Stenton-Dozey / Dive Spirit Mauritius [E] and Vincent Chalias [F].
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="177F5141FFE9677324CE0545FECB300A" blockId="10.[151,1437,150,1390]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">
Both
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773250D0546FECD3717" box="[260,382,601,628]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773258C0545FE6E3717" bold="true" box="[389,477,601,627]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE96773258C0545FE6E3717" box="[389,477,601,627]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
and
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773261B0546FD983710" box="[530,555,602,628]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A.</emphasis>
aff.
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677326540545FD0A3717" box="[605,697,601,627]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are typically (but not exclusively) encountered in association with the whitecap hovering gobies of the genus
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677326790560FD0837F2" box="[624,699,636,662]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Lotilia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. According to
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Shibukawa
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677327E90561FBA437F2" box="[992,1047,636,662]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">et al.</emphasis>
(2012)
</bibRefCitation>
,
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773207D0560FB0C37F2" box="[1140,1215,636,662]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Lotilia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is composed of two morphologically nearly identical species, which have been confused with each other until recently. The
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species of
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677324BD05DDFF4C37BF" box="[180,255,705,731]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Lotilia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773250505DEFE2837BF" authorityName="Klausewitz" authorityYear="1960" box="[268,411,705,731]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Lotilia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="graciliosa">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773250505DEFE2837BF" box="[268,411,705,731]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">L. graciliosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, is restricted to the “Red Sea and adjacent areas”, whereas
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773202F05DEFE8D379A" authority="Shibukawa, Suzuki &amp; Senou, 2012" authorityName="Shibukawa, Suzuki &amp; Senou" authorityYear="2012" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Lotilia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="klausewitzi">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773202F05DEFB0C37BF" box="[1062,1215,705,731]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">L. klausewitzi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE9677320CC05DDFE8D379A" author="Shibukawa, K. &amp; Suzuki, T. &amp; Senou, H." pageId="10" pageNumber="431" pagination="54 - 64" refId="ref11289" refString="Shibukawa, K., Suzuki, T. &amp; Senou, H. (2012) Review of the shrimp-associated goby genus Lotilia (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae), with description of a new species from the West Pacific. Zootaxa, 3362 (1), 54 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3362.1.3" type="journal article" year="2012">Shibukawa, Suzuki &amp; Senou, 2012</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
occurs in the “West Pacific” (
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE96773268005F8FD7E379A" box="[649,717,740,766]" name="Japan" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Japan</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE9677326DF05F8FCF3379A" box="[726,832,740,766]" name="Australia" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Australia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE96773274305F9FB90379A" box="[842,1059,740,767]" name="Papua New Guinea" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Papua New Guinea</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE96773202405F8FB51379B" box="[1069,1250,740,767]" name="Kiribati" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Phoenix Islands</collectingCountry>
), although based on numerous colour photographs, it is also widely distributed throughout the Coral Triangle (
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE9677320B8041BFA913645" box="[1201,1314,775,801]" name="Indonesia" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Indonesia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE967732126041BFA2B3645" box="[1327,1432,775,801]" name="Malaysia" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Malaysia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6FD711D1FFE96773249E0435FEA93620" box="[151,282,809,836]" name="Philippines" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Philippines</collectingCountry>
). Based on the presently available evidence,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773271E0436FC203627" authority="Anker, 2022" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[791,915,809,836]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karplusi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773271E0436FC203627" box="[791,915,809,836]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A. karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677327920435FC453627" bold="true" box="[923,1014,809,835]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="3E873028FFE9677327920435FC453627" box="[923,1014,809,835]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
may live exclusively with
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677321230436FF0D3602" authorityName="Klausewitz" authorityYear="1960" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Lotilia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="graciliosa">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677321230436FF0D3602" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">L. graciliosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the Red Sea (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE9677325730450FE623602" box="[378,465,844,870]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1791,1815]" captionTargetBox="[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetId="figure-25@8.[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 4. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimps in life:A, B—holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37011, left side of the carapace damaged during collection), general dorsal view (A) and detail of frontal region (B); C—paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from the same locality (FLMNH UF 37016), major (right) cheliped, mesial view; D—male from Eilat, Israel (not deposited), dorso-frontal view of cephalothorax with chelipeds and other appendages; E, F, G—shrimps associated with Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960, photographed in situ in Nuweiba (E), Naama Bay near Sharm-el-Sheikh (F) and Safaga (G), Egypt (not collected). Photographs by the author [AC], Dr. Ilan Karplus [D], Sonja Ooms [E], Andrey Ryanskiy [F] and Indra Günther [G]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332837" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332837/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Fig. 4E</figureCitation>
), although this needs to be confirmed by more
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677327EE0451FB9F3602" box="[999,1068,845,870]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">in situ</emphasis>
observations. In contrast,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773215E0450FF4036ED" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karplusi">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773215E0450FADC3602" box="[1367,1391,844,870]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A.</emphasis>
aff.
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773249E0473FF4036ED" box="[151,243,879,905]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
associates mainly with
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677326090473FD2936ED" authorityName="Shibukawa, Suzuki &amp; Senou" authorityYear="2012" box="[512,666,879,905]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Lotilia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="klausewitzi">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677326090473FD2936ED" box="[512,666,879,905]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">L. klausewitzi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE9677326A20473FC9636ED" box="[683,805,878,905]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="9.[151,250,1766,1790]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 5. Alpheus aff. karplusi, shrimps with their goby partners photographed in situ: A—shrimp associated with Lotilia klausewitzi Shibukawa, Hirata &amp; Senou, 2012 in Romblon, Philippines; B, C—shrimp associated with L. klausewitzi in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; D—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus albidorsus (Yanagisawa, 1978) in Dongbei Jiao, Taiwan; E—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus malindiensis (Smith, 1959) in Trou aux Biches, Mauritius; F—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther, 1872) in Bali, Indonesia. See text for further details. Photographs by Rickard Zerpe [A], Scott and Jeanette Johnson [B, C], Jimmy Cheng [D], Charlene Stenton-Dozey / Dive Spirit Mauritius [E] and Vincent Chalias [F]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332839" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332839/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Fig. 5AC</figureCitation>
), but also with three species of the genus
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677320F50473FEC536CF" authority="Valenciennes, 1837" authorityName="Valenciennes" authorityYear="1837" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Cryptocentrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677320F50473FA2F36ED" box="[1276,1436,879,905]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Cryptocentrus</emphasis>
Valenciennes, 1837
</taxonomicName>
, viz.
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677325BF048EFDFC36CF" box="[438,591,913,940]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">C. albidorsus</emphasis>
(Yanagisawa, 1978)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE967732743048EFB0236CF" authority="(Gunther, 1872)" baseAuthorityName="Gunther" baseAuthorityYear="1872" box="[842,1201,913,940]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Cryptocentrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="leucostictus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE967732743048EFC4236CF" box="[842,1009,913,940]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">C. leucostictus</emphasis>
(Günther, 1872)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677320E5048EFE8636AB" authority="(Smith, 1959)" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1959" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Cryptocentrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="malindiensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677320E5048EFA2E36CF" box="[1260,1437,913,940]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">C. malindiensis</emphasis>
(Smith, 1959)
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE96773254E04A8FE7336AB" box="[327,448,948,975]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="9.[151,250,1766,1790]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 5. Alpheus aff. karplusi, shrimps with their goby partners photographed in situ: A—shrimp associated with Lotilia klausewitzi Shibukawa, Hirata &amp; Senou, 2012 in Romblon, Philippines; B, C—shrimp associated with L. klausewitzi in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; D—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus albidorsus (Yanagisawa, 1978) in Dongbei Jiao, Taiwan; E—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus malindiensis (Smith, 1959) in Trou aux Biches, Mauritius; F—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther, 1872) in Bali, Indonesia. See text for further details. Photographs by Rickard Zerpe [A], Scott and Jeanette Johnson [B, C], Jimmy Cheng [D], Charlene Stenton-Dozey / Dive Spirit Mauritius [E] and Vincent Chalias [F]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332839" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332839/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Fig. 5DF</figureCitation>
; see also
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE96773263804A8FCFA36AA" author="Kuiter, R. H. &amp; Debelius, H." box="[561,841,948,974]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" refId="ref10580" refString="Kuiter, R. H. &amp; Debelius, H. (2009) World atlas of marine fauna. IKAN, Frankfurt, 725 pp." type="book" year="2009">Kuiter &amp; Debelius 2009</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE96773275E04A8FB8336AB" author="Pinault, M. &amp; Fricke, R. &amp; Wickel, J. &amp; Peneau, C. &amp; Quod, J. P." box="[855,1072,948,975]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" pagination="237 - 239" refId="ref10814" refString="Pinault, M., Fricke, R., Wickel, J., Peneau, C. &amp; Quod, J. P. (2015) First record of the chocolate shrimp-goby (Gobiidae: Cryptocentrus malindiensis) from Reunion Island with a brief description of its natural habitat. Cybium, 39, 237 - 239." type="journal article" year="2015">
Pinault
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677327A604A9FC5936AA" box="[943,1002,948,974]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">et al.</emphasis>
2015
</bibRefCitation>
). Remarkably, and certainly not by coincidence, these three species of
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773264604CBFD5C3695" box="[591,751,983,1009]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Cryptocentrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have conspicuously white-banded backs, as in the two species of
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677324E104E5FE803177" box="[232,307,1017,1043]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Lotilia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, suggesting the shrimps preference for a particular colour pattern of their goby partners. Among the shrimp-associated gobies,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677325CD0301FDE53152" authorityName="Klausewitz" authorityYear="1960" box="[452,598,1052,1078]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Lotilia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="graciliosa">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677325CD0301FDE53152" box="[452,598,1052,1078]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">L. graciliosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677326980301FC9F3152" box="[657,812,1052,1078]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">L. klausewitzi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are unusual in that outside of the burrow they always hover above the burrow funnel (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE9677325F40323FDED313D" box="[509,606,1087,1113]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1791,1815]" captionTargetBox="[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetId="figure-25@8.[216,1372,181,1767]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 4. Alpheus karplusi sp. nov., shrimps in life:A, B—holotype male (cl 10.5 mm) from the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (FLMNH UF 37011, left side of the carapace damaged during collection), general dorsal view (A) and detail of frontal region (B); C—paratype male (cl 11.4 mm) from the same locality (FLMNH UF 37016), major (right) cheliped, mesial view; D—male from Eilat, Israel (not deposited), dorso-frontal view of cephalothorax with chelipeds and other appendages; E, F, G—shrimps associated with Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960, photographed in situ in Nuweiba (E), Naama Bay near Sharm-el-Sheikh (F) and Safaga (G), Egypt (not collected). Photographs by the author [AC], Dr. Ilan Karplus [D], Sonja Ooms [E], Andrey Ryanskiy [F] and Indra Günther [G]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332837" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332837/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Figs. 4E</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE9677326600322FD1C313D" box="[617,687,1086,1113]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="9.[151,250,1766,1790]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 5. Alpheus aff. karplusi, shrimps with their goby partners photographed in situ: A—shrimp associated with Lotilia klausewitzi Shibukawa, Hirata &amp; Senou, 2012 in Romblon, Philippines; B, C—shrimp associated with L. klausewitzi in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; D—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus albidorsus (Yanagisawa, 1978) in Dongbei Jiao, Taiwan; E—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus malindiensis (Smith, 1959) in Trou aux Biches, Mauritius; F—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther, 1872) in Bali, Indonesia. See text for further details. Photographs by Rickard Zerpe [A], Scott and Jeanette Johnson [B, C], Jimmy Cheng [D], Charlene Stenton-Dozey / Dive Spirit Mauritius [E] and Vincent Chalias [F]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332839" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332839/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">5AC</figureCitation>
), instead of resting on the sand in front of the burrow entrance or at the edge of the funnel, as do most other shrimp gobies, including
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<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE967732764037EFBA2311F" box="[877,1041,1121,1148]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">C. leucostictus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE967732029037DFBC63118" box="[1056,1141,1121,1148]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="9.[151,250,1766,1790]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 5. Alpheus aff. karplusi, shrimps with their goby partners photographed in situ: A—shrimp associated with Lotilia klausewitzi Shibukawa, Hirata &amp; Senou, 2012 in Romblon, Philippines; B, C—shrimp associated with L. klausewitzi in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; D—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus albidorsus (Yanagisawa, 1978) in Dongbei Jiao, Taiwan; E—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus malindiensis (Smith, 1959) in Trou aux Biches, Mauritius; F—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther, 1872) in Bali, Indonesia. See text for further details. Photographs by Rickard Zerpe [A], Scott and Jeanette Johnson [B, C], Jimmy Cheng [D], Charlene Stenton-Dozey / Dive Spirit Mauritius [E] and Vincent Chalias [F]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332839" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332839/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Fig. 5F</figureCitation>
). Interestingly,
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE967732128037EFF0831FA" baseAuthorityName="Yanagisawa" baseAuthorityYear="1978" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Cryptocentrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="albidorsus">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE967732128037EFF0831FA" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">C. albidorsus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677324FB0398FE1231FA" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1959" box="[242,417,1156,1182]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Cryptocentrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="malindiensis">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677324FB0398FE1231FA" box="[242,417,1156,1182]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">C. malindiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
seem to be somewhat intermediate between “bottom sitters” and hoverers (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE9677320FA0398FADF31FB" box="[1267,1388,1156,1183]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="9.[151,250,1766,1790]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 5. Alpheus aff. karplusi, shrimps with their goby partners photographed in situ: A—shrimp associated with Lotilia klausewitzi Shibukawa, Hirata &amp; Senou, 2012 in Romblon, Philippines; B, C—shrimp associated with L. klausewitzi in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; D—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus albidorsus (Yanagisawa, 1978) in Dongbei Jiao, Taiwan; E—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus malindiensis (Smith, 1959) in Trou aux Biches, Mauritius; F—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther, 1872) in Bali, Indonesia. See text for further details. Photographs by Rickard Zerpe [A], Scott and Jeanette Johnson [B, C], Jimmy Cheng [D], Charlene Stenton-Dozey / Dive Spirit Mauritius [E] and Vincent Chalias [F]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332839" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332839/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Fig. 5D, E</figureCitation>
; see also
<bibRefCitation id="73512CB0FFE9677324C503BBFE2C31A5" author="Pinault, M. &amp; Fricke, R. &amp; Wickel, J. &amp; Peneau, C. &amp; Quod, J. P." box="[204,415,1190,1217]" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" pagination="237 - 239" refId="ref10814" refString="Pinault, M., Fricke, R., Wickel, J., Peneau, C. &amp; Quod, J. P. (2015) First record of the chocolate shrimp-goby (Gobiidae: Cryptocentrus malindiensis) from Reunion Island with a brief description of its natural habitat. Cybium, 39, 237 - 239." type="journal article" year="2015">
Pinault
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773252A03BBFEEF31A5" box="[291,348,1191,1217]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">et al.</emphasis>
2015
</bibRefCitation>
: fig. 1). According to the authors preliminary observations, there are no significant colour pattern differences between
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677325DD03D6FDCF3187" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[468,636,1225,1252]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karplusi">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677325DD03D6FE5F3180" box="[468,492,1226,1252]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A.</emphasis>
aff.
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773262903D5FDCF3187" box="[544,636,1225,1251]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
associated with
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773273F03D6FC7C3187" authorityName="Shibukawa, Suzuki &amp; Senou" authorityYear="2012" box="[822,975,1225,1251]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Lotilia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="klausewitzi">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773273F03D6FC7C3187" box="[822,975,1225,1251]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">L. klausewitzi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and those associated with
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE9677320F503D6FF763063" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Cryptocentrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677320F503D6FA2F3180" box="[1276,1436,1226,1252]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Cryptocentrus</emphasis>
spp.
</taxonomicName>
Nevertheless, it seems that most shrimps associated with
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773275A03F1FC5E3062" authorityName="Shibukawa, Suzuki &amp; Senou" authorityYear="2012" box="[851,1005,1260,1286]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Lotilia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="klausewitzi">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773275A03F1FC5E3062" box="[851,1005,1260,1286]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">L. klausewitzi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are paler and have smaller spots (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE96773216603F0FF6E304D" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="9.[151,250,1766,1790]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 5. Alpheus aff. karplusi, shrimps with their goby partners photographed in situ: A—shrimp associated with Lotilia klausewitzi Shibukawa, Hirata &amp; Senou, 2012 in Romblon, Philippines; B, C—shrimp associated with L. klausewitzi in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; D—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus albidorsus (Yanagisawa, 1978) in Dongbei Jiao, Taiwan; E—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus malindiensis (Smith, 1959) in Trou aux Biches, Mauritius; F—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther, 1872) in Bali, Indonesia. See text for further details. Photographs by Rickard Zerpe [A], Scott and Jeanette Johnson [B, C], Jimmy Cheng [D], Charlene Stenton-Dozey / Dive Spirit Mauritius [E] and Vincent Chalias [F]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332839" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332839/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Fig. 5AC</figureCitation>
), whereas those associated with
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773265B0213FC9A304D" box="[594,809,1295,1321]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Gobiidae" genus="Cryptocentrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773265B0213FD41304D" box="[594,754,1295,1321]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Cryptocentrus</emphasis>
spp.
</taxonomicName>
are brighter yellow and have larger spots (
<figureCitation id="8FFB4DC4FFE96773211F0213FA3C304D" box="[1302,1423,1294,1321]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="9.[151,250,1766,1790]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[151,1435,181,1741]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 5. Alpheus aff. karplusi, shrimps with their goby partners photographed in situ: A—shrimp associated with Lotilia klausewitzi Shibukawa, Hirata &amp; Senou, 2012 in Romblon, Philippines; B, C—shrimp associated with L. klausewitzi in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; D—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus albidorsus (Yanagisawa, 1978) in Dongbei Jiao, Taiwan; E—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus malindiensis (Smith, 1959) in Trou aux Biches, Mauritius; F—shrimp associated with Cryptocentrus leucostictus (Günther, 1872) in Bali, Indonesia. See text for further details. Photographs by Rickard Zerpe [A], Scott and Jeanette Johnson [B, C], Jimmy Cheng [D], Charlene Stenton-Dozey / Dive Spirit Mauritius [E] and Vincent Chalias [F]." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6332839" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6332839/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">Fig. 5DF</figureCitation>
), and also appear to be smaller in size. Whether one or two species are involved under
<taxonomicName id="D0C02AC2FFE96773205C022EFB4D302F" authorityName="Anker" authorityYear="2022" box="[1109,1278,1329,1356]" class="Malacostraca" family="Alpheidae" genus="Alpheus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="10" pageNumber="431" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karplusi">
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE96773205C022EFBD53028" box="[1109,1126,1330,1356]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">A</emphasis>
. aff.
<emphasis id="25B48D53FFE9677320AB022DFB4D302F" box="[1186,1278,1329,1355]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="431">karplusi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
remains to be shown in the future.
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