Decapoda - Caridea - Merguiidae - Merguia

Merguia oligodon (de Man, 1888 [in de Man, 1887-1888])

2 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Bruce (1993) Chace (1997, Smithsonian Contribution) - Kenya, Mergui archipelago and Indonesia, mangrove, in semiterrestrial habitat. Philippines (Malay & Ranises, 2019). Japan (Komai, 2002). Also from this database, Mayotte, det. J. Poupin 01/2020, coll. Dimitri Theuerkauff

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

Vertical range : Intertidal - Min-Max observed: 0-0 m

Mayotte data
Merguia oligodon - Mayotte, det. J. Poupin 01/2020 (2 spp. examined), coll. Dimitri Theuerkauff, mangrove Ironi Bé, September 2019.

Comment(s) on data
According to Chace (1997) only 2 species in this genus, M. rhizophorae (Rathbun, 1900), Atlantic species and M. oligodon, Indian O. and Indonesia 'Obviously, further study will be required to determine whether these interesting shrimps that behave like insects belong to one, two or three species'. Additional record in Kenya and distribution of the 2 species in Bruce (1993, Tropical Zoology).
Comment of D. Theuerkauff, collector at Mayotte (29/01/2020) 'Son comportement est vraiment intéressant, je ne l'ai vue que de nuit à la base des racines dans le faciès à Rhizophora … je pense qu'elle est capable de respiration aérienne en tout cas elle se balade librement sur les racines'
See also - Malay, M. C. & Rañises, D. M. L. (2019) Observations on the habitat, color polymorphism, and sexual system of the semi-terrestrial shrimp Merguia oligodon (De Man, 1888) (Decapoda: Caridea: Merguiidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology (2019) 1–7. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruz085, 1–6. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruz065.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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