Dr. Paddy Ryan, USA
Info
Alpheus novaezealandiae Miers, 1876
This species has been collected under rocks, in the seagrass Posidonia, and in clumps of the tunicate Pyura stolonifera.
Color variable: body dark (green, purplish, or blue) with white mottling and spots; brown eggs, large chela fingers tipped with orange.
Snapping shrimps or pistol shrimps are immediately distinguished from other families by having one claw much larger than the other, the larger claw cylindrical and with a parrot-beak-like finger.
Synonymised names
Alpheus novae-zealandiae Miers, 1876 · unaccepted > superseded combination
This species has been collected under rocks, in the seagrass Posidonia, and in clumps of the tunicate Pyura stolonifera.
Color variable: body dark (green, purplish, or blue) with white mottling and spots; brown eggs, large chela fingers tipped with orange.
Snapping shrimps or pistol shrimps are immediately distinguished from other families by having one claw much larger than the other, the larger claw cylindrical and with a parrot-beak-like finger.
Synonymised names
Alpheus novae-zealandiae Miers, 1876 · unaccepted > superseded combination
