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Issue: Vol. 3534 No. 1: 1 Nov. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-11-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3534.1.4
Page range: 53–60
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 2

Description of Alcyonohippolyte brachycarpus sp. nov., a further new hippolytid shrimp (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae) associated with soft coral from Taiwan, with the key to the species of the genus Alcyonohippolyte Marin, Okuno & Chan, 2011

A. N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Institute of Marine Biology and Center of Excellence for Marine Bioenvironment and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan R.O.C
Crustacea Decapoda Caridea Hippolytidae Alcyonohippolyte new species soft coral Taiwan

Abstract

A new species of soft coral associated hippolytid shrimp of the hippolytid shrimp genus Alcyonohippolyte Marin, Okuno& Chan, 2011 is described from northern Taiwan. The new species, Alcyonohippolyte brachycarpus sp. nov., inhabits softcoral “Sinularia sp.”, the same host as for A. maculata Marin, Okuno & Chan, 2011. At the same time, the new speciescan be easily separated from A. maculata by different coloration as well as having shorter carpal segments of pereiopodsII in females. Though occurring simpatrically, these two species have not yet been found inhabiting the same host together.The key for all known species of the genus Alcyonohippolyte is given based on morphology of females as no males have yet been known for the type species of the genus Alcyonohippolyte, A. dossena Marin, Okuno & Chan, 2010.

References

  1. Marin I., Okuno J., Chan, T-Y. (2011) On the “Hippolyte commensalis Kemp, 1925” species complex (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae), with the designation of a new genus and description of two new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa, 2768, 32–54.

    Marin, I. (2011) Two new species of the genus Alcyonohippolyte Marin, Okuno & Chan, 2010 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippolytidae) from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Zootaxa, 3123, 49–59.