Atyid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) of the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan, with descriptions of two new species
Author
Cai, Y.
text
Journal of Natural History
2006
2006-12-25
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930601084049
journal article
10.1080/00222930601084049
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Atyoida pilipes
(
Newport, 1847
)
Atya pilipes
Newport, 1847
, p 160
[
type
locality: Apia, Upoln, Navigator or Samoan group (see
Chace 1983
)]
Atyoida pilipes
:
Smith and Williams 1982
, p 345
(part);
Chace 1983
, p 10
, figs.3–8; Shokita 2003, p 249, fig. 17D; 2006c, p 61; Cai et al. 2006, p 392, figs. 1–3. (For synonym, see
Chace (1983)
and Cai et al. (2006).
Material examined
Neotype
of
Caridina brevirostris
:
1 male
, cl
6.8 mm
,
NSMT
,
River Aritsu
,
Kume-Jima
Island
,
Ryukyu Islands
, coll.
A. Kawakami
,
8 December 1995
. Others:
2 males
, cl
6.2– 7.1 mm
,
URB
,
Omija River
,
Iriomote Island
,
Ryukyu Islands
, coll.
T
.
Naruse
,
1 August 1999
.
Habitat
Lower reaches of rivers and streams which discharge to the sea.
Remarks
Cai et al. (2006) recently designated
neotypes
for
C. acuminata
Stimpson 1860
from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands and
Caridina brevirostris
Stimpson 1860
from Kume Island, Ryukyus, and synonymized both species with
Atyoida pilipes
.
Atyoida pilipes
has been reported from the
Philippines
and eastern Lesser Sunda Islands at about 120 east longitude eastward through the Pacific high island (
Chace 1983
). In
Japan
, it has been reported from Kume Island, Ishigaki Island (
Shokita 1979
) Iriomote Island of the Ryukyu Islands (
Shokita 1997
).
Distribution
West Pacific.