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Alpheus parvirostris

Green banded snapping shrimp

Aidan Janetzki (2013)

 

 

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Summary


Physical Description


Size


External Anatomy


Ecology


Habitat


Life History & Behaviour


Snapping Effect


Moulting


Egg Development


Internal Anatomy & Physiology


Evolution & Systematics


Biogeographic Distribution


Conservation & Threats


References & Links

References & Links

Anker. A., Ahyong. S., Noel. P. & Palmer. A. (2006) Morphological phylogeny of Alpheid shrimps: Parallel preadaptation and the origin of a key morphological innovation, the snapping claw. Evolution, 60, 2507-2528.
 
Banner. A. & Banner. D. (1983)  An annotated checklist of the alpheid shrimp from the western Indian oceanTravaux et Documents de l'ORSTOM, 158, 1-164.

Banner. D. & Banner. A. (1982)  The alpheid shrimp of Australia: Part 3: the remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum, 34, 1-357.

Bauer. R. (ed) (2004) Remarkable shrimps. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

Chace Jr. F. (1992) On the classification of the Caridea (Decapoda). Crustaceana, 63, 70-80.

Chang. E. & Mykles. D. (2011) Regulation of crustacean moulting: A review and our perspectives. General and comparative endocrinology, 172, 323-330. 

Christoffersen. M. (1989) Phylogeny and classification of Pandaloidea (Crustacea, Caridea). Cladistics, 5, 259-274.

Debelius. H. (2001) Crustacea guide of the world, 2nd ed. IKAN- Unterwasserarchiv, Gemany.

Hultgren. K. & Duffy. J. (2011) Multi-locus phylogeny of sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp (Caridea: Alpheidea: Synalpheus) supports morphology-based species concepts. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 31, 352-360.

Mellon. D. (1999) Muscle restructuring in crustaceans: myofiber death, transfiguration and rebirth. American Zoologist, 39, 527-540.

Schram. F. (ed.) (1986) Crustacea. Oxford University Press, N.Y.

Shuster. S. (1990) Predation and sexual dimorphism in a marine isopod crustacean. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 238-240. 

Thompso. J. (1967) Comments on phylogeny of section Caridea (Decapoda Natania) and the phylogenetic importance of the Oplophoroidea. Proc. Symp. Crustacea, 1, 314-326.

Versluis. M., Schmit., B., von der Heydt. A. & Lohse. D. (2000) How snapping shrimp snap: through cavitation bubbles. Science,  289, 2114-1227.

Wicksten. M. (2010) Infraorder Caridea. in  Schram. F. & von Vaupel Klein J. (eds.), The Crustacea. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, 165-206.



Classification

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