Alpheus cf. formosus Gibbes, 1850

Material examined (N=2). 1f, 29/VIII/2004, St. 0 5 (MZUESC #706).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, and from North Carolina through Caribbean to Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, and from Ceará to São Paulo) (Christoffersen 1998).

Ecological notes. Sand flats with Porites and other corals, seagrass flats with abundant coral rubble, rockstudded beaches, seawalls, wrecks, exposed and submerged reefs, Phragmatopoma reefs; rarely in sponges or bryozoan ( Schizoporella) colonies, in crevices of corals or coral rubble, under rocks. Intertidal to 42 m (Chace 1972; Christoffersen 1979, 1980; A. Anker, pers. comm.).

Previous records in Bahia. Gomes Corrêa (1972), Christoffersen (1979).

Remarks. Species complex, with at least two species in the western Atlantic (Knowlton & Mills 1992).