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Kim &amp; Fujita, 2004
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(
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1 ovigerous female (CL
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near
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, early night dive, depth
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, coll.
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[photographed]
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.
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Additional specimen observed in situ, not collected. 1 ovigerous female,
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off
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,
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124°31'00.43'E, night dive, rubble, depth
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[photographed]
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.
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Kim &amp; Fujita (2004) provided an excellent description of
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, with numerous illustrations of the adult morphology, as well as the first to fourth zoea.
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Carapace and abdomen mostly opaque whitish with some greyish areas; walking legs dark purple; antennular flagella with blackish spot proximally, pale yellow distally (
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).
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FF3F65624438CC26" bold="true" box="[134,272,1057,1081]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Distribution.</emphasis>
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Presently known only from the
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locality in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands (Kim &amp; Fujita 2004) and Balicasag (
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) and Ponson (
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) in the central
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(present study). The present record of
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from the
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extends its distribution range southwards by around
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.
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FF3F644245C8CD06" bold="true" box="[134,224,1281,1305]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Habitat.</emphasis>
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Coral rubble with encrusting algae and sponges (
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), at depths of
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, possibly down to
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(Kim &amp; Fujita 2004; present study).
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FF3F64C245D5CD86" bold="true" box="[134,253,1409,1433]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Biology. </emphasis>
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</emphasis>
uses a rather remarkable camouflage strategy. As in other species of
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FD3964E147FBCDA6" box="[640,723,1442,1465]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Vercoia</emphasis>
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and some other
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, the body of
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FDE9648147CECDC6" box="[592,742,1474,1497]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">V. interrupta</emphasis>
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is compact and heavily sculptured (“bumpy”), being covered with numerous tubercles and several ridges (
<figureCitation id="90E52A22F70E1725FDDA674147FFCE06" box="[611,727,1538,1561]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="1.[110,145,2004,2025]" captionTargetBox="[111,1449,506,1984]" captionTargetId="figure-102@1.[111,1449,506,1984]" captionTargetPageId="1" captionText="Fig. 1. Vercoia interrupta Kim &amp; Fujita, 2004: AD, ovigerous female from Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Philippines; EG, ovigerous female from Ponson Island, Pilar, Cebu, Philippines. A, recently preserved specimen, lateral view; B, same, dorsal view; C, living shrimp in situ, showing microhabitat; D, same, close-up; E, living shrimp (different individual) in situ, lateral view; F, same, dorsolateral view; G, same, anterodorsal view. (CG, photographs by Guido Poppe)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5342419" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5342419/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Fig. 1A, B</figureCitation>
; see also Kim &amp; Fujita 2004), and has a uniform “dirty whitish” colour, the dark purple walking legs being mostly invisible in dorsal view (
<figureCitation id="90E52A22F70E1725FE946721448BCE66" box="[301,419,1634,1657]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="1.[110,145,2004,2025]" captionTargetBox="[111,1449,506,1984]" captionTargetId="figure-102@1.[111,1449,506,1984]" captionTargetPageId="1" captionText="Fig. 1. Vercoia interrupta Kim &amp; Fujita, 2004: AD, ovigerous female from Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Philippines; EG, ovigerous female from Ponson Island, Pilar, Cebu, Philippines. A, recently preserved specimen, lateral view; B, same, dorsal view; C, living shrimp in situ, showing microhabitat; D, same, close-up; E, living shrimp (different individual) in situ, lateral view; F, same, dorsolateral view; G, same, anterodorsal view. (CG, photographs by Guido Poppe)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5342419" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5342419/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Fig. 1B, G</figureCitation>
). Kim &amp; Fujita (2004) noted that
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FF3F67C1443ACE86" box="[134,274,1666,1689]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">V. interrupta</emphasis>
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resembles a “small piece of rubble”, which would make it cryptic on a rubble bottom. However, by stretching the abdomen completely, with its tail fan almost pointing posteriorly (
<figureCitation id="90E52A22F70E1725FEDA67A144FFCEE6" box="[355,471,1762,1785]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="1.[110,145,2004,2025]" captionTargetBox="[111,1449,506,1984]" captionTargetId="figure-102@1.[111,1449,506,1984]" captionTargetPageId="1" captionText="Fig. 1. Vercoia interrupta Kim &amp; Fujita, 2004: AD, ovigerous female from Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Philippines; EG, ovigerous female from Ponson Island, Pilar, Cebu, Philippines. A, recently preserved specimen, lateral view; B, same, dorsal view; C, living shrimp in situ, showing microhabitat; D, same, close-up; E, living shrimp (different individual) in situ, lateral view; F, same, dorsolateral view; G, same, anterodorsal view. (CG, photographs by Guido Poppe)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5342419" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5342419/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Fig. 1DG</figureCitation>
), the shrimp also remarkably resembles a dead and encrusted cerithiid snail shell, more specifically that of
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FEE06661471ECF26" box="[345,566,1826,1849]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Cerithium rostratum</emphasis>
G. B. Sowerby II, 1855
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, which is common in the area (G. Poppe, pers. comm.). Even when moving
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FEE7662144CDCF66" box="[350,485,1890,1913]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">V. interrupta</emphasis>
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resembles a cerithiid shell occupied by a hermit crab more than a shrimp, and would probably be ignored by most visually hunting predators. Night activity (all individuals of
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FE4C66814757CFC6" box="[501,639,1986,2009]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">V. interrupta</emphasis>
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were found at night) may further increase the survival chances of this peculiar shrimp.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="40C4652CF70E1725FCF861FD4051C9AA" pageId="2" pageNumber="29" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="086136A7F70E1725FCF861FD4051C9AA" blockId="2.[833,1472,190,437]" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FCF861FD46EFC8C9" bold="true" box="[833,967,190,214]" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FCF861FD4686C8C9" bold="true" box="[833,942,190,214]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Remarks.</emphasis>
</emphasis>
Behavioural observations and photographs of
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FCDB619C469DC8E9" box="[866,949,223,246]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Vercoia</emphasis>
spp.
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are extremely rare. To the authors best knowledge, the only other published photograph of
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FAD661BC4097C909" box="[1391,1471,255,278]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Vercoia</emphasis>
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is that of
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FC09605C410AC929" box="[944,1058,287,310]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">V. gibbosa</emphasis>
(
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)
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, which also seem to mimic shell fragments. All species of
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FA80607C40A1C949" box="[1337,1417,319,342]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Vercoia</emphasis>
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may be imitators of dead shells or at least shell fragments, based on their morphological similarity with
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<emphasis id="3AAAEAB5F70E1725FB6D603C407FC989" box="[1236,1367,383,406]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">V. interrupta</emphasis>
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, although the latter species seems to do so most convincingly.
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