Decapoda - Caridea - Alpheidae - Alpheus

Alpheus viridari (Armstrong, 1949)



World Distribution
Chace (1972: 73) - Florida Keys to Trinidad, Curaçao, Yucatan. - Anker (2012, Zootaxa: 89) - 0.5-3 m. Florida (Indian River Lagoon, Miami area, Florida Keys, Dry Tortugas); Caribbean Sea: Cuba
(Batabano Gulf), Dominican Republic (Boca Chica), Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands (Guana), Venezuela, Panama (Isla Grande, Bocas del Toro), Belize, Mexico, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Tobago, and several other localities (Armstrong 1949; Chace 1972; Martínez-Iglesias et al. 1996; present study)

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-3 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (Tortola), Lesser Antilles, ICA (St Martin, Barbuda, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Tobago, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Los Roques, Curaçao). 0-3 m. WA.
Alpheus viridari - Chace, 1972: 73, Tortola, Barbuda, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Tobago, Curaçao. - Carvacho, 1979: 455, Guadeloupe. - Rodríguez, 1986: tab. 2, Los Roques. - Hernández et al, 1999: tab. 1, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua. - Felder et al., 2009, Trinidad, Curaçao. - Anker, 2012: 85, Tortola, St Martin, Guadeloupe.
Alpheus viridari - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 2012, field det. A. Anker, UF32118, photo dSTM_5435, 15/4/2012; UF30332, photo dSTM_5374, 15/4/2012; UF30333, photo dSTM_5369, 15/4/2012; UF30334, photo dSTM_4933, 13/4/2012; UF30335, photo dSTM_5141, 14/4/2012; UF30336, photo dSTM_5136, 14/4/2012. - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. A. Anker, MNHN-IU-2013-12105, st. GM03, 1 m, JL106.
Comment: a species of the Alpheus armillatus complex (see Anker, 2012).

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