Alpheus malleator

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Alpheus malleator
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Alpheidae
Genus: Alpheus
Species:
A. malleator
Binomial name
Alpheus malleator
Dana, 1852

Alpheus malleator, the hammerclaw snapping shrimp or bumpy-clawed snapping shrimp, is a species of marine snapping shrimp. [1] [2] [3] It is considered the most distinctive species in the genus Alpheus due to intricate morphological features. [3]

Distribution

Alpheus malleator is found along the western Central American coast, including Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, and in the east and the west of the Atlantic Ocean. [1] The type locality is believed to be in Rio de Janeiro. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Alpheus malleator". Charles Darwin Foundation. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  2. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Alpheus malleator Dana, 1852". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-07-08.
  3. 1 2 3 Anker, Arthur; Pachelle, Paulo P.G. (2013). "Re-examination of the eastern Pacific and Atlantic material of Alpheus malleator Dana, 1852, with the description of Alpheus wonkimi sp. nov. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)" . Zootaxa. 3637 (4): 412–431. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3637.4.2. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   26046208. S2CID   24185592.


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