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Revision of the Alpheus cristulifrons species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with description of a new species from the tropical eastern Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

Arthur Anker ,
Carla Hurt  and
Nancy Knowlton
Arthur Anker*
Affiliation:
Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales, Apartado 0843–03092, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, República de Panamá/Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Naos Unit 0948, APO AA 34002, USA
Carla Hurt
Affiliation:
Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales, Apartado 0843–03092, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, República de Panamá/Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Naos Unit 0948, APO AA 34002, USA
Nancy Knowlton
Affiliation:
Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales, Apartado 0843–03092, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, República de Panamá/Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Naos Unit 0948, APO AA 34002, USA Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation-0202, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0202, USA
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Correspondence should be addressed to: Arthur AnkerInstituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales Apartado 0843–03092 Balboa, Ancón, Panamá República de Panamá Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteNaos Unit 0948 APO AA 34002, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The taxonomy of the snapping shrimp Alpheus cristulifrons Rathbun, 1900, previously reported from the eastern Pacific and western and eastern Atlantic, is reviewed based on molecular data (COI), morphology and colour patterns. Three species are recognized in the A. cristulifrons species complex. Alpheus cristulifrons sensu stricto is restricted to the western Atlantic, ranging from Florida and the Caribbean Sea to southern Brazil. The eastern Pacific A. cristulifrons sensu Kim & Abele, 1988 corresponds to A. utriensis Ramos & Von Prahl, 1989, ranging from the Gulf of California to Colombia; this species can be separated from A. cristulifrons by the absence of balaeniceps setae on the male minor chela and the presence of bands on the antennular and antennal flagella. The eastern Atlantic A. cristulifronssensu Crosnier & Forest, 1966 is described as A. xanthocarpus sp. nov. based on recently collected material from the island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea; this species differs from A. cristulifrons by the posteriorly more extending rostral carina and the presence of conspicuous yellow spots on the carpus and chela of the second pereiopod. Molecular data suggest that A. utriensis is the eastern Pacific sister clade to the amphi-Atlntic clade that includes A. cristulifrons and A. xanthocarpus sp. nov.

Keywords

Alpheustransisthmian taxaspecies complexeastern PacificAtlanticcryptic speciescolour patternmolecular phylogenybarcodeCOI
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , May 2008 , pp. 543 - 562
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2008

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