On some interesting marine decapod crustaceans (Alpheidae, Laomediidae, Strahlaxiidae) from Lombok, Indonesia
Author
Anker, Arthur
Author
Pratama, Idham Sumarto
Author
Firdaus, Muhammad
Author
Rahayu, Dwi Listyo
text
Zootaxa
2015
3911
3
301
342
journal article
42341
10.11646/zootaxa.3911.3.1
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Athanas shawnsmithi
Anker, 2011
(
Figs. 9
,
10
)
Athanas shawnsmithi
Anker 2011a
: 2
, figs. 1, 2, 8A–D.
Material examined
.
Indonesia
.
1 male
(
MZB
Cru 4041), western Lombok, Teluk Medana, seagrass flat with sand, mud, some rubble-gravel, burrow, suction pump,
0.2–0.7 m
,
12 May 2014
[LB-St3-30];
4 females
,
1 juvenile
(
MZB
Cru 4042), same collection data [LB-St3-24]; 1 ov. female (
RMNH
.
CRUS
.D.56738), same collection data [LB-St3-29]; 1 ov. female (
RMNH
D 56739), same collection data [LB-St3-26]; 1 ov. female (
MZB
Cru 4043), western Lombok, Sira, seagrass flat with some muddy areas, burrow, suction pump,
0.2–0.5 m
, leg. D.L. Rahayu
et al.
,
13 May 2014
[LB-St4-30];
1 male
, 1 ov. female,
2 females
(
OUMNH
.ZC.
2014-10-06
), same collection data [LB-St4-28];
1 male
(
OUMNH
.ZC.
2014-10-07
), same collection data [LB-St4-24];
1 male
(
OUMNH
.ZC.
2014- 10-08
), same collection data [LB-St4-35];
1 female
(
OUMNH
.ZC.
2014-10-09
), southern Lombok, Teluk Sekotong, seagrass flat, burrow, suction pump,
0.2–0.5 m
, leg. D.L. Rahayu
et al.
,
14 May 2014
[LB-St6-31]; 1 ov. female (
RMNH
.
CRUS
.D.56740), same collection data [LB-St6-21B].
Taxonomic account
. See
Anker (2011a)
.
Habitat
. Near-shore sand flats and seagrass flats with silted or muddy areas; “commensally” in burrows of unknown infaunal hosts (see below). Depth range: around
0.2–
1 m
.
Distribution
. Indo-West Pacific:
Australia
and
Indonesia
(new record) (
Anker 2011a; present study
).
Remarks
. This recently described species was hitherto known only from the
type
locality, Lizard
Island
, Great Barrier Reef off Queensland,
Australia
(Anker 2011). The material from Lombok agrees very well with the
type
specimens, including the diagnostic colour pattern (
Figs. 9
,
10
; see also
Anker 2011a
: 8A–D). One difference in the colour pattern that may need further investigation is the colour of eggs in ovigerous females, which are greenish in the Australian specimens and yellow-orange in the Indonesian ones.
Athanas shawnsmithi
appears to be one of the commoner symbiotic infaunal alpheids in Lombok, with specimens collected at three different stations (Teluk Medana, Sira, Teluk Sekotong). However, none of the 16 Lombok specimens of
A. shawnsmithi
was collected together with its burrowing host, which thus remains elusive (see also Anker 2011). The most likely “host candidates”, present at all three sites, are large callianassid ghost shrimps (
Glypturus
,
Neocallichirus
) and burrowing snapping shrimps (
Alpheus
).