Alpheus alcyone De Man, 1902

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 : 481

Alpheus alcyone De Man, 1902

Alpheus alcyone De Man, 1902: 870 ; Nobili, 1906: 32; Banner, 1966b: 107; Banner & Banner, 1982:110.

Alpheus aculeipes Coutière, 1905: 892 .

Alpheus crinitus Bate, 1888: 548 .

Material examined. PG: 1 male ( ZUTC 6728 ), Hormuz I., on dead corals, Coll. A. Dehghani and H. Ashrafi, 10 May 2016 ; GO: 2 males, 2 ovig. females ( ZUTC 6728 ), Chabahar Bay , Tis, on dead corals, Coll. A. Sari, 2 Oct. 2016 .

Regional records. PG: UAE ( Nobili 1906), Iran (present study); GO: Iran (present study).

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: from the PG to Japan, Marshall, Caroline, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa Islands.

Habitat. Associated with living corals and in passageways of dead sponge; from lower intertidal to over 3 m deep.

Remarks. Alpheus alcyone was recorded from the PG ( UAE) by Nobili (1906). Our PG material agrees with Banner & Banner’s (1982) descriptions. The only difference was observed in the second legs. Banner & Banner (1982) noted that the second carpal segment of the second leg varies from 2 to 3 times as the length of the first segment, while in our freshly collected material this value is 1.5 with no variations.