ABSTRACT
The objective of this study is to report new occurrences of five species of snapping shrimps of the genus Alpheus Fabricius, 1798Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae: 1-572. Hafniae, Proft et Storch. in Brazil and, thus, contribute to the knowledge of their zoogeography. The southern limit of distribution of A. formosus Gibbes, 1850Gibbes, L.R. 1850. On the carcinological collections of the United States, and an enumeration of species contained in them, with notes on the most remarkable, and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 3: 165-201. and A. peasei (Armstrong, 1940Armstrong, J.C. 1940. New species of Caridea from the Bermudas. American Museum Novitates, 1096: 1-10.) is extended from Paraná to Santa Catarina and from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, respectively. The northern distribution limit of A. pouang Christoffersen, 1979Christoffersen, M.L. 1979. Campagne de la Calypso au large des côtes Atlantiques de l'Amerique du Sud (1961-1962). I. Decapod Crustacea: Alpheoida. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, 55: 297-377. and A. verrilli (Schmitt, 1924Schmitt, W.L. 1924. Report on the Macrura, Anomura and Stomatopoda collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. University of Iowa Studies of Natural History, 10: 65-99, plates 1-5.) is substantially extended from São Paulo to Pará and from Bahia to Pará, respectively. Finally, A. rudolphi Almeida & Anker, 2011Almeida, A.O. and Anker, A. 2011. Alpheus rudolphispec. nov., a new snapping shrimp from northeastern Brazil (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae). Zoologische Mededelingen, 85: 1-10., previously known from Ceará and Alagoas, is recorded for the first time in Pernambuco, filling a gap in its known distribution.
Key words:
Crustacea; Decapoda; New records; Distribution; Marine diversity
