Alpheus rapax Fabricius 1798

Alpheus rapax Fabricius, 1798 Alpheus rapax Fabricius, 1798: 405; De Man, 1909b: 147; De Man, 1911: 385; Johnson, 1962: 52; Banner & Banner, 1966a: 121; Johnson, 1979: 40; Banner & Banner, 1978: 228; 1982: 174; 1985: 31. Alpheus brevicristatus ��� Tan & Yeo, 2004: 137. Material examined. PG : 2 males, 1 female (ZUTC 6690), Hormuz I., in muddy bottoms, Coll. A. Sari and A. Dehghani, 10 Oct. 2017; GO: 2 males, 1 female (ZUTC 6691), Chabahar Bay, Tis, muddy bottoms, Coll. A. Dehghani, 2 Oct. 2016. Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: from Red Sea, PG, GO to Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Micronesia and Hawaii. Regional records. PG : Iran (Banner & Banner 1981, present study); GO: Iran (present study). Habitat. Sandy-muddy or sandy-rubble bottoms, near coral reefs, sea grasses beds or mangroves, occasionally associated with gobies; intertidal to at least 5 m deep. Remarks. Alpheus rapax can be distinguished from related species by having a broader scaphocerite and shorter fingers of the minor chela (see Bruce, 1994).
Published as part of 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, pp. 479-504 in Zootaxa 4544 (4) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2618475
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