Alpheus cf. formosus Gibbes, 1850

Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, Zootaxa 1553, pp. 1-45 : 13

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).