- 著者
- Hossein Ashrafi Sammy De Grave
- 出版者
- Carcinological Society of Japan
- 雑誌
- Crustacean Research (ISSN:02873478)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.52, pp.79-89, 2023-09-09 (Released:2023-09-09)
- 参考文献数
- 20
During 2019, two specimens belonging to a new species of the alpheid shrimp genus Automate De Man, 1888 were collected from two islands in the northern part of the Persian Gulf. The new species is a member of the A. hayashii group which hitherto only comprised two species. However, the new species A. arturi can be separated from them by several morphological features: a shorter rostrum with rounded tip, a shorter stylocerite barely extending beyond the first antennular article, the scaphocerite not reaching to the end of the second antennular article, the third maxilliped coxa with a subtriangular-shaped lateral plate, the ischia of the first pereiopods (chelipeds) dorsally armed with spiniform setae and ventrally with a small tubercle, and the ischia of the walking pereiopods armed with a single ventrolateral spiniform seta.
- 著者
- Sancia E. T. van der Meij Magnus L. Johnson Sammy De Grave
- 出版者
- Carcinological Society of Japan
- 雑誌
- Crustacean Research (ISSN:02873478)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.47, pp.89-99, 2018-10-24 (Released:2018-10-24)
- 参考文献数
- 40
- 被引用文献数
- 2
Tropical shallow-water crinoids offer shelter to a diversity of marine life, including various symbiotic palaemonid shrimp species. In this study, the reproductive features of the shrimps Cristimenes commensalis and Pontoniopsis comanthi inhabiting comatulid crinoids are studied and compared. Ovigerous females were collected from the crinoids Anneissia bennetti and Comaster nobilis from Iriomote-jima, Japan. All specimens were examined for the following traits: carapace length, fecundity, embryo volume, brood mass volume and dry weight of the females and the eggs. Cristimenes commensalis produced 15–117 eggs with a volume of 0.04 mm3±0.00, whereas the smaller-sized species P. comanthi produced 12–57 eggs with a volume of 0.02 mm3±0.01. The reproductive output (RO) of C. commensalis was 0.16±0.03, considerably lower than that of P. comanthi at 0.31±0.05. Data is beginning to emerge on the fecundity and reproductive output of symbiotic palaemonid shrimps, although comparisons remain hampered by the general lack of knowledge on their biology in general. Pontoniopsis comanthi has the highest recorded reproductive output so far, despite being the smallest species studied. Our results confirm that inhabiting a sheltered habitat allows symbiotic shrimps to allocate more energy to embryo production than free-living species. Different reproductive strategies are, however, apparent for these species inhabiting the same host species, implying the existence of differential selective forces.
- 著者
- Magdalini Christodoulou Thomas M. Iliffe Sammy De Grave
- 出版者
- Carcinological Society of Japan
- 雑誌
- Crustacean Research (ISSN:02873478)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.48, pp.11-21, 2019-03-16 (Released:2019-03-16)
- 参考文献数
- 16
A new species of the alpheid shrimp genus Potamalpheops Powell, 1979 is described from an anchialine cave on Nggela Pile Island, Solomon Islands. Potamalpheops nazgul sp. nov. belongs to the P. monodi (Sollaud, 1932) species group, defined by the presence of two pairs of cuspidate setae on the distal margin of the telson and feebly or non-enlarged chelipeds. The new species is morphologically closer to P. pininsulae Bruce & Iliffe, 1992 and it is characterised among others by the presence of a well-developed antero-mesial tubercle on the eyestalk, a short rostrum with a dentate ventral carina, a toothed distal margin of first antennular segment and a non-strongly inflated carapace. The description of this new species raises the number of known species of Potamalpheops to fifteen.
- 著者
- Christopher W. Ashelby Sammy De Grave Nguyên Van Xuân
- 出版者
- Carcinological Society of Japan
- 雑誌
- Crustacean Research (ISSN:02873478)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.47, pp.17-27, 2018-02-14 (Released:2018-02-14)
- 参考文献数
- 12
- 被引用文献数
- 3
A new species of Palaemon is described from Cần Giớ District, Vietnam. This species has previously been reported from Vietnam as a colour morph of Palaemon sewelli (Kemp, 1925), to which it is clearly morphologically very closely related. However, the new species can be separated from P. sewelli through the position of the branchiostegal tooth relative to the branchiostegal groove, the shape of the suborbital lobe, a hirsute carapace and abdomen and the colour pattern of living individuals. The description of this new species brings the number of species of Palaemon known from Vietnam to eleven species.