Shallow-water caridean shrimps from southern Bahia, Brazil, including the first record of Synalpheus ul (Ríos & Duffy, 2007) (Alpheidae) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean
Author
Almeida, Alexandre O.
Author
Boehs, Guisla
Author
Araújo-Silva, Catarina L.
Author
Bezerra, Luis Ernesto A.
text
Zootaxa
2012
3347
1
35
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.214608
10000391-ec0f-495f-8ee4-61b667fa68e1
1175-5326
214608
Synalpheus
cf.
brevicarpus
(
Herrick, 1891
)
Alpheus saulcyi
var.
brevicarpus
Herrick, 1891
: 384
(? part.); pl. 4, figs. 1–3; pl. 21, figs. 1–4, 8, 9; pl. 22, figs. 1, 2, 4–10, 12–16; pl. 23, figs. 1–8; pl. 24, figs. 1, 3.
Material examined.
1 ni,
07.III.2008
, Santa Cruz Cabrália, mouth of João de Tiba River (sandstone reef),
MZUESC
1153.
Distribution.
Western Atlantic—Bermuda, Florida,
Bahamas
, West Indies,
Panama
and
Brazil
(Ceará to Rio Grande do Sul) (
Christoffersen 1979
,
1998
; Bezerra & Coelho 2006). The Eastern Pacific records correspond to
S. digueti
Coutière, 1909
(which also corresponds to multiple species) (A. Anker, pers. comm.).
Ecological notes.
The single Bahian specimen was collected on a sandstone reef, under a rock covered with hydrozoans and algae, at a salinity of 36 psu.
Previous records.
R/V
Calypso
(St. 84 and 89) (
Christoffersen 1979, as
Synalpheus brevicarpus
).
Remarks.
Synalpheus brevicarpus
is a transisthmian species complex, which includes
S. brevicarpus sensu
Herrick, 1891
,
S. brevicarpus guerini
Coutière, 1909
,
S. digueti
Coutière, 1909
, as well as several undescribed species (A. Anker, in study).