Alpheus lottini Guérin-Méneville, 1838

Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza, 2019, Annotated checklist of the snapping shrimps of the genus Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran, Zootaxa 4544 (4), pp. 479-504 : 487

Alpheus lottini Guérin-Méneville, 1838

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Alpheus lottini Guérin-Méneville, 1829 : pl. 3, fig. 3.

Alpheus lottini — Tiwari, 1963: 285; Banner & Banner, 1966a: 91; Johnson, 1979: 38; Liu & Lan, 1980: 84; Banner & Banner, 1982: 65; Banner & Banner, 1985: 19; Anker & De Grave, 2016: 359.

Alpheus ventrosus —H. Milne Edwards, 1837: 352; De Man, 1911: 339; Johnson, 1962: 51.

Alpheus laevis Randall, 1840: 141 ; De Man, 1888a: 499; De Man, 1902: 861.

Material examined. PG: 1 male ( ZUTC 6673 ) Hormuz I., on dead corals, Coll. A. Dehghani, 10 May 2016 ; GO: 2 males, 2 females ( ZUTC 6649 ), Chabahar Bay , Tis, on dead corals, Coll. A. Dehghani and H. Ashrafi, 2 Oct. 2016 .

Distribution: Indo-Pacific: South Africa, Red Sea, PG, GO, Japan, Australia, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Rapa Nui, Panama and Galapagos.

Regional records. PG: Iran ( Banner & Banner, 1981; present study); GO: Oman ( Hogarth, 1989), Iran (present study).

Habitat. This species is an obligate associate of the hard corals Pocillopora and Seriatopora ( Anker & De Grave, 2016) . All material was collected from crevices in Pocillopora from lower intertidal to at least 3 m deep.

Remarks. Alpheus lottini is also a problematic species complex and Williams et al. (2001, 2002) showed a genetic separation between the Indo-West Pacific and East Pacific populations. The two male individuals collected here agree well with the description and illustrations provided in Banner & Banner (1982) for Australian material. A literature based comparison of morphological descriptions and color patterns between material collected from the PG and GO with those from Singapore ( Anker & De Grave, 2016) unexpectedly resulted in observation of no general morphological differences.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Alpheus lobidens De Haan, 1849, A. Male (CL. 9.5 mm); B. Green-Brown female (CL. 9.8 mm), Hormuz Island; C. Blue-Brown female (CL. 8.2 mm); D. Yellow-Brown male (CL. 8.7 mm), Abu-Musa Island. Alpheus lottini Guérin- Méneville, 1838. E. Male (CL. 5 mm), Hormuz Island. Alpheus lutosus Anker & De Grave, 2009, F. Male (CL. 9.8 mm), Bandar Mahshar.