Synalpheus shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae). I. The Gambarelloides group, with a description of a new species
The genus Synalpheus Bate, 1888, is one of the most diverse and widely distributed generaof caridean shrimps in the world. Often known as snapping shrimps because of the popping soundmade by the major first pereopod when the chela is closed rapidly, members of this genus areimportant components of coral reef and live bottom communities in all tropical and subtropical seas.The Gambarelloides group (a well-defined, homogeneous group within the genus but lackingformal subgeneric status) contains over half the described species of Synalpheus in the Gulf ofMexico and Caribbean. Its many species are distinguished from each other by subtle, and oftenvariable, characters. Accurate inventories of the Gulf fauna have been handicapped by difficulty inseparating these shrimps at the specific level. Distributional data, diagnoses, and references toeach of the 19 species of the group from the Western Atlantic Region are presented in this report.The 11 species known from the Gulf of Mexico are illustrated. Details of specific ecological associations,morphological variation, and life history strategies are also summarized. (Document has 125 pages.)
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Florida Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Marine Research
1984
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| Subjects: | Oceanography, Biology, Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Crustacea:Decapoda, Gambarelloides, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/18647 |
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