Abstract
A new snapping shrimp species of the Alpheus macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835) group is described based on a single adult male specimen collected on an exposed forereef near Magoodhoo Island, Faafu Atoll, Maldives. Alpheus dingabadi sp. nov. is one of several species of the A. macrocheles group characterised by the presence of a stout distoventral tooth on the merus of the third pereiopod, but can be separated from all of them by several morphological features, including the unusually long appendix masculina on the second pleopod, as well as by its conspicuous and highly diagnostic colour pattern.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 155-162 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | ZOOTAXA |
| Volume | 5271 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 24 2023 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2023-07-04Acknowledgements: The holotype of the above-described new species was collected and photographed alive by Dr. Jenna Moore (Museum of Nature Hamburg—Zoology) in 2014. The author is also grateful to Dr. Gustav Paulay (FLMNH) for allowing him to use the laboratory equipment (stereomicroscope equipped with a camera lucida) under his supervision, Dr. Justin Scioli (University of Lafayette, Lafayette) for various discussions of the taxonomy of the A. macrocheles group, and Dr. Francesca Benzoni (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) for generously sponsoring this and several other taxonomic studies on decapod crustaceans in 2022. Two anonymous reviewers quickly and efficiently refereed the originally submitted manuscript.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.