First record of Alpheus platycheirus Boone, 1927 (Crustacea, Alpheidae) on the northwest coast of Venezuela
Citation
Caribbean OBIS Node. First record of Alpheus platycheirus Boone, 1927 (Crustacea, Alpheidae) on the northwest coast of Venezuela. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ujcauf accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-08-10. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-09-13. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-09-14. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-10-05. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-10-13. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-10-19. accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-15.Description
Alpheus platycheirus Boone, 1927 (Decapoda, Alpheidae) is a snapping shrimp widely distributed in the western Atlantic, from the Gulf of Mexico to eastern Brazil. This shrimp usually inhabits muddy marine bottoms; however, here we record for the first time A. platycheirus in association with Thalassia testudinum and Halodule wrightii meadows at an unusually shallow depth in northwest Venezuela. This record extends the known habitat and distribution of A. platycheirus in the Caribbean. Moreover, it represents an additional alpheid species for Venezuela, bringing the known total to 34 species.Sampling Description
Study Extent
A two-day sampling was carried out on El Supi coast (Falcón state, Venezuela)Sampling
Sampling was conducted in the Venezuelan Paraguaná Peninsula on May 19th and 20th, 2013, during the predominant dry season. The sampling site El Supí (12°00’51.2”N 69°49’59.9”W) is located outside of protected areas and close to tourist attractions. El Supí is composed of sandy beaches with a low profile and muddy waters, with intermixed Thalassia testudinum Banks ex König 1805 and Halodule wrigthii Ascherson 1868 seagrass beds (Mariño et al., 2018).Method steps
- 1. Intensive nocturnal samplings with a manual push net with an opening of 1 m (width) x 0.5 m (height), and a mesh size of 1 mm (modified from Manning, 1975). 2. Fixation of the organisms in situ using ethanol (70%) with glycerin (1%) and photographing them (Cannon Power Shot SX20 IS, zoom lens 20X IS 5.0−100.0 mm 1:2.8−5.7 USM). 3. Measuring of the specimens (CL = carapace length) and depositing them in the Centro Museo de Biología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (Centro MBUCV).
Taxonomic Coverages
The specimens were classified down to species.
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Alpheus platycheirusrank: species
Geographic Coverages
El Supí is located outside of protected areas and close to tourist attractions. It is composed of sandy beaches with a low profile and muddy waters, with intermixed Thalassia testudinum Banks ex König 1805 and Halodule wrigthii
Ascherson 1868 seagrass beds (Mariño et al., 2018).
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