Decapoda - Caridea - Atyidae - Atyoida

Atyoida tahitensis Stimpson, 1860

2 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
(Lorang et al. 2020, Zootaxa: 70) - This species (Fig. 7) is restricted to Cook Islands (Rarotonga) and in French Polynesia to Austral, Gambier and Society archipelagoes. Rapa in Austral archipelago and Mangareva in Gambier archipelago correspond respectively to the most southerly (27°35’S) and easterly extension (135°W) of the genus Atyoida, with A. tahitensis being present

Environnement : Freshwater - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-0 m

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
FRENCH POLYNESIA - Atyoida tahitensis Stimpson, 1860: 28 [97] (Tahiti). - Atya brevirostris - Seurat, 1934: 50 (Tahiti). - Ricard, 1986: 88 (French Polynesia). - Atyoida serrata - Edmonson, 1935: 14 (Mangareva, Rapa, Tahiti; - but not Marquesas = A. pilipes) - Not Atyoida serrata (Bate, 1888). - Vanderbiltia rosamondae Boone, 1935: 160, pl. 41-42 (Tahiti). - Holthuis, 1953b: 113, fig. 1 (Tahiti; redescription of Boone's material as a juvenile stage of Atya serrata; not A. serrata Bate, 1888, in Chace, 1983); 1980: 70 (Syn.). - Atyoida pilipes - Chace, 1983: 10, fig. 3-8 (Tahiti - but not Marquesas; Syn.). - Marquet, 1988: 87, fig. 48, tab. 23; 1991: 129, tab. 1 & 2; 1993: tab. 1 & 3 (All FP Islands except Marquesas, Mangareva, Moorea, Rurutu, Tahiti, Tubuai). - Poupin, 1994: 5, fig. 1, pl. 1a (Tahiti; coll. Frv Marara); 1998: 8 (Checklist all places except Marquesas). - Keith & Vigneux, 2002: 125, tab. 1, photos 1-2 (Australs, Gambier, Society - but not Marquesas). - Keith et al., 2002: 38, photograph (Atlas; Austral, Gambier, Society - but not Marquesas). - Synonyms - Atya brevirostris De Man, 1892; Ortmannia alluaudi Bouvier, 1905.
Atyoida tahitenis (corrected from A pilipes, 2020) - Moorea, coll. Simon Brand (simonjbrandl@gmail.com), Novembre 2017 - We collected it from a reef outcrop just inside the lagoon on the Eastern side of the island - Det. J. Poupin/S. De Grave from photo (an ovigerous female, see photo) - This is a freshwater shrimp, unusually collected at sea. According to S. De Grave (pers. com.) juveniles of this species are sporadically recorded at sea in literature but this record from Moorea would be the first one for an adult specimen.

Atyoida tahitensis - Lorang et al., 2020, Zootaxa: 65, Neotype (here designated): FRENCH POLYNESIA. TAHITI. Mahina, 1 male cl 5.6mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3290; DNA: CA2376), 17°32.241’S, 149°29.269’W, April, 1995, 114m a.s.l., coll. J. Poupin, E. Tavosso;
FRENCH POLYNESIA. TAHITI. Papehere river, 1 male immature, cl 3.1mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3283), 1 female ovig., cl 5,8mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3284; DNA: CA2060), 1 female ovig., cl 7.7mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3285; DNA: CA2381), 1 female ovig., cl 6.8 mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3286; DNA: CA2382), 1 female , cl 7,8mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3287; DNA: CA2384), 1 female , cl 7,1mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3288), and 1 female , cl 6.8mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3289; DNA: CA2387), 17°49.719’S, 149°17.067’W, October 02, 2017, 16m a.s.l., coll. G. Marquet, P. Tiberghien.- Mahina river, 1 female ovig., cl 6.4mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3291; DNA: CA2378), and 1 female , cl 6.4mm, 17°32.241’S, 149°29.269’W, April, 1995, 114m a.s.l., coll. J. Poupin, E. Tavosso. MOOREA. Afeareatu river, 1 juv., cl 4.5mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3292; DNA: CA2380), 1 male, cl 4.4mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3293; DNA: CA2065) and 1 male, 4.6mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3294; DNA: CA2064), 17°32.629’S, 149°48.555’W, November 05, 2017, 139m a.s.l., coll. G. Marquet, P. Tiberghien . RURUTU. Puputa river, 1 female , cl 5.7mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3295; DNA: CA2057) and 1 female , 6,7mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3296), 22°27.009’S, 151°21.061’W, September 26, 2017, 99m a.s.l., coll. G. Marquet, P. Tiberghien. COOK ISLANDS. RAROTONGA. Avana river, 1 male, cl 5.4mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3297; DNA: CA2372), 1 female , cl 6.7mm (MNHN-IU-2018-3298; DNA: CA1978) and 1 female , cl 7.4 (MNHN-IU-2018-3299; DNA: CA1977), 21°14.462’S, 159°43.546’W, November 07, 2010, 12m a.s;l., coll. P. Gerbeaux, P. Keith; G. Marquet. MANGAREVA. Gatavake river, August 1986, 1 female ovig., cl 6.1mm, 1 female , cl 6.0mm and 1 male, cl 3.6mm (USNM 231705).

Comment(s) on data
This species endemic of French Polynesia (but not in Marquesas) and Cook Islands.

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