The sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae, Synalpheus) of Discovery Bay, Jamaica, with descriptions of four new species
Author
Iii, Kenneth S Macdonald
Author
Hultgren, Kristin
Author
Duffy, Emmett
text
Zootaxa
2009
2199
1
57
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.189568
c668ee01-6eff-451a-9b96-be6f14b35edc
1175-5326
189568
Synalpheus williamsi
Ríos and Duffy
Material examined.
Jamaica
: non-ovigerous individual (
VIMS
08JAM6601), Dairy Bull Reef, from canals of
Hymeniacidon caerulea
. Non-ovigerous individual, ovigerous female (
VIMS
08JAM6701,02), Dairy Bull Reef, from canals of
Hymeniacidon caerulea
. MaxCL non-ovigerous individual:
2.95 mm
. Color. Golden-brown; distal portion of major chela bright orange-red; ovaries and embryos green.
Hosts and ecology.
Synalpheus williamsi
was only found in the midnight-blue sponge
Hymeniacidon caerulea
in
Jamaica
.
Distribution.
Belize
(Macdonald et al. 2006;
Ríos and Duffy 2007
);
Jamaica
(this study).
Remarks.
As
has been mentioned in accounts of
S. williamsi
from other regions (Ríos and Duffy 1999), individuals often have traces of dark blue in their gut, presumably from the pigment of their host sponge
H. caerulea
.
PLATE 6.
A,
Synalpheus yano
ovigerous female (08JAM4601) from
Hymeniacidon caerulea
, Columbus Park, Discovery Bay
,
Jamaica
. B,
Synalpheus yano
non-ovigerous individual (08JAM4602) from
Hymeniacidon caerulea
, Columbus Park, Discovery Bay
,
Jamaica
.