The Indo-West Pacific alpheid shrimp Athanas dimorphus Ortmann, 1894: first record for Brazil and the western Atlantic

Pachelle, Paulo P. G.; Mendes, Cecili B.; Anker, Arthur

Abstract

The alpheid shrimp Athanas dimorphus Ortmann, 1894, common and widespread throughout the Indo-West Pacific, is reported for the first time from Brazil, representing the first invasive alpheid species in Brazil, and the first species of the genus Athanas Leach, 1816 introduced to the western Atlantic. The present record is based on several specimens collected at two localities in Ceará, Pedra Rachada beach near the town of Paracuru, and Meireles beach in Fortaleza. Athanas dimorphus is very common at the second site, suggesting that a population of this species is now established in northwestern Brazil. An updated list of marine and freshwater decapods accidentally or voluntarily introduced to Brazil is provided.

Decapoda; Caridea; Alpheidae; new record; invasive species

Anker, A. 2007. New species and records of alpheid shrimps, genera Salmoneus Holthuis and Parabetaeus Coutière, from the tropical western Atlantic (Decapoda, Caridea). Zootaxa, 1653: 21-39.
Anker A.; Ahyong, S.T.; Palmer, A.R. and Noël, P.Y. 2006. Morphological phylogeny of alpheid shrimps: parallel preadaptation and the origin of a key morphological innovation, the snapping claw. Evolution, 60: 2507-2528.
Anker, A. and Jeng, M.S. 2007. Establishment of a new genus for Arete borradailei Coutière, 1903 and Athanas verrucosus Banner and Banner, 1960, with redefinitions of Arete Stimpson, 1860 and Athanas Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae). Zoological Studies, 46: 454-472.
Banner, A.H. and Banner, D.M. 1983. An annotated checklist of the alpheid shrimp from the western Indian Ocean. Travaux et Documents de l'ORSTOM, 158: 1-164.
Banner, D.M. and Banner, A.H. 1973. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part I. The lower genera. Records of the Australian Museum, 28: 291-382.
Bezerra, L.E.A. and Almeida, A.O. 2005. Primeiro registro da espécie Indo-Pacífica Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) para o Litoral do Estado do Ceará, Brasil. Tropical Oceanography, 33: 33-38.
Bhuti, G.S.; Shenoy, S. and Sankolli, K.N. 1977. Laboratory reared alpheid larvae of the genera Automate, Athanas and Synalpheus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae). Proceedings of the Symposium on Warm Water Zooplankton, Special Publication of National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, p. 588-600.
Bilecenoglu, M.; Baki Yokes, M. and Eryigit, A. 2008. First record of Vanderhorstia mertensi Klausewitz, 1974 (Pisces, Gobiidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Invasions, 3: 475-478.
Cadien, D. 1986. Minutes from meeting on August 11, 1986. South California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists 5: 1.
Carlton J.T. and Cohen, A.N. 2003. Episodic global dispersal in shallow water marine organisms: the case history of the European shore crabs Carcinus maenas and Carcinus aestuarii Journal of Biogeography, 30: 1809-1820.
Chace, F.A. Jr. 1988. The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910, Part 5: family Alpheidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 466: i-vi + 1-99.
Christoffersen, M.L. 1998. Malacostraca. Eucarida. Caridea Crangonoidea and Alpheoidea (except Glyphocrangonidae and Crangonidae). p. 351-372. In: Young, P.S. (ed), Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Série Livros, n. 6. Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional.
Coutière, H. 1899. Les "Alpheidae", morphologie externe et interne, formes larvaires, bionomie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, série 8, 9: 1-560, pls. 1-6.
Darling, J.A.; Bagley, M.J.; Roman, J.; Tepolt, C.K. and Geller, J.B. 2008. Genetic patterns across multiple introductions of the globally invasive crab genus Carcinus Molecular Ecology, 17: 4992-5007.
D'Incao, F. 1995. Ocorrência de Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius, 1798) no sul do Brasil (Decapoda: Penaeidae). Nauplius, 3: 165-167.
Forest, J. and Guinot, D. 1958. Sur une collection de crustacés décapodes des côtes d'Israel. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Resarch Station of Israel, 15: 4-16.
Frick, M.G.; Mason, P.A.; Williams, K.L.; Andrews, K. and Gerstung, H. 2003. Epibionts of hawksbill turtles in a Caribbean nesting ground: a potentially unique association with snapping shrimp (Crustacea: Alpheidae). Marine Turtle Newsletter, 99: 8-11.
Ferreira, A.C.; Sankarankuty, C.; Cunha, I.M.C. and Duarte, F.T. 2001. Yet another record of Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Northeast of Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 18: 357-358.
Galil, B. 2006. The marine caravan – the Suez Canal and the Erythrean invasion. p. 207-300. In: Gollasch, S.; Galil, B. and Cohen, A.N. (eds), Bridging divides: maritime canals as invasion corridors. Monographiae Biologicae, Vol. 83, Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg.
Galil, B.; Froglia, C. and Noël, P.Y. 2002. CIESM Atlas of Exotic Species in the Mediterranean 2. Crustaceans: CIESM Publishers, Monaco, 192 pp.
Gollasch, S. 2007. Is ballast water a major dispersal mechanism for marine organisms? p. 49-57. In: Nentwig, W. (ed), Biological Invasions. Ecological Studies, Chapter 4 Vol. 193, Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg.
Gurney, R. 1927. Cambridge expedition to the Suez Canal, 1924. XV. Report on the larvae of Crustacea Decapoda. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22: 231-286.
Hewitt, C.L.; Gollasch, S. and Minchin, D. 2009. The vessel as a vector – biofouling, ballast water and sediments. p. 117-131. In: Rilov, G. and Crooks, J.A. (eds), Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, Chapter 6, Vol. 204, Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg.
Lewinsohn, C. and Galil, B.S. 1982. Notes on species of Alpheus (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Quaderni del Laboratorio di Tecnologia della Pesca, Ancona, 3: 207-210.
Luvesuto, E.; Freitas, P.D. and Galetti, P.M. 2007. Genetic variation in a closed line of the white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Penaeidae). Genetics and Molecular Biology, 30: 1156-1160.
Magalhães, C.; Bueno, S.L.S.; Bond-Buckup, G.; Valenti, W.C; Silva, H.L.M.; Kiyohara, F.; Mossolin, E.L. and Rocha, S.S. 2005. Exotic species of freshwater decapod crustaceans in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: records and possible causes of their introduction. Biodiversity and Conservation, 14: 1929-1945.
Mantelatto, F.L. and Dias L.L. 1999. Extension of the known distribution of Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Decapoda, Portunidae) along the western tropical South Atlantic. Crustaceana, 72(6): 617-620.
Negreiros-Fransozo, M.L. 1996. The zoea I of Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Decapoda Portunidae) obtained in laboratory. Nauplius, 4: 165-168.
Ortmann, A.E. 1894. Crustaceen. In: Semon, R. (ed), Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem malayischen Archipel mit Unterstützung des Herrn Dr. Paul von Ritter ausgeführt in den Jahren 1891-93. Denkschriften der Medicinisch- Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 8: 3-80, pls. 1-3.
Özcan, T.; Suat Ates, A. and Katagan, T. 2007. On the presence of the snapping shrimp, Alpheus rapacida (Decapoda: Caridea) on the Aegean coast of Turkey. JMBA2 - Biodiversity Records.
Santos, M.C.F. and Coelho, P.A. 2002. Espécies exóticas de camarões peneídeos (Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798 e Litopenaeus vannamei Boone, 1931) nos ambientes estuarino e marinho do Nordeste do Brasil. Boletim Técnico- Científico do CEPENE, 10: 207-222
Silva, H.L.M. and Bueno, S.L.S. 2005. Population size estimation of the exotic crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Cambaridae) in the Alfredo Volpi City Park, São Paulo, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 22: 93-98.
Tavares, M. and Mendonça, J.B. Jr. 1996. Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Brachyura: Portunidae), eighth nonindigenous marine decapod recorded from Brazil. Crustacean Research, 25: 151-157.
Tavares, M. and Mendonça, J.B. Jr. 2011. The occurrence of the Indo-Pacific swimming crab Scylla serrata (Forskal, 1775) in the Southwestern Atlantic (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae). Aquatic Invasions, 6, Suppl. 1:S49-S51.
Tavares, M. 2003. On Halicarcinus planatus (Fabricius) (Brachyura, Hymenosomatidae) transported from Chile to Brazil along with the exotic oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg). Nauplius, 11: 45-50.
Tavares, M. 2011. Alien decapod Crustacea in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. p. 251- 268. In: Galil, B.; Clark, P. and Carlton, J. (eds), In the wrong place - alien marine crustaceans: distribution, biology and impacts. Springer, Frankfurt.
Viana, M.G.; Rocha-Barreira, C.A. and Grossi Hijo, C.A. 2005. Macrofauna bentônica da faixa entremarés e zona de arrebentação da praia de Paracuru (Ceará-Brasil). Brazilian Journal of Aquatic Science and Technology, 9: 75-82.
Vinuesa, J.H. 2007. Molt and reproduction of the European green crab Carcinus maenas (Decapoda: Portunidae) in Patagonia, Argentina. Revista de Biología Tropical, 55(Suppl. 1): 49-54.
Wowor, D. and Ng, P.K.L. 2007. The giant freshwater prawns of the Macrobrachium rosenbergii species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 55: 321-336.
Wowor, D. and Ng, P.K.L. 2008. Case 3428. Palaemon rosenbergii De Man, 1879 (currently Macrobrachium rosenbergii; Crustacea, Decapoda): proposed conservation of usage by designation of a neotype. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 65: 288-293.

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[2] Anker A.; Ahyong, S.T.; Palmer, A.R. and Noël, P.Y. 2006. Morphological phylogeny of alpheid shrimps: parallel preadaptation and the origin of a key morphological innovation, the snapping claw. Evolution, 60: 2507-2528.

[3] Anker, A. and Jeng, M.S. 2007. Establishment of a new genus for Arete borradailei Coutière, 1903 and Athanas verrucosus Banner and Banner, 1960, with redefinitions of Arete Stimpson, 1860 and Athanas Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae). Zoological Studies, 46: 454-472.

[4] Banner, A.H. and Banner, D.M. 1983. An annotated checklist of the alpheid shrimp from the western Indian Ocean. Travaux et Documents de l'ORSTOM, 158: 1-164.

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[7] Bhuti, G.S.; Shenoy, S. and Sankolli, K.N. 1977. Laboratory reared alpheid larvae of the genera Automate, Athanas and Synalpheus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae). Proceedings of the Symposium on Warm Water Zooplankton, Special Publication of National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, p. 588-600.

[8] Bilecenoglu, M.; Baki Yokes, M. and Eryigit, A. 2008. First record of Vanderhorstia mertensi Klausewitz, 1974 (Pisces, Gobiidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Invasions, 3: 475-478.

[9] Cadien, D. 1986. Minutes from meeting on August 11, 1986. South California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists 5: 1.

[10] Carlton J.T. and Cohen, A.N. 2003. Episodic global dispersal in shallow water marine organisms: the case history of the European shore crabs Carcinus maenas and Carcinus aestuarii Journal of Biogeography, 30: 1809-1820.

[11] Chace, F.A. Jr. 1988. The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910, Part 5: family Alpheidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 466: i-vi + 1-99.

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[14] Darling, J.A.; Bagley, M.J.; Roman, J.; Tepolt, C.K. and Geller, J.B. 2008. Genetic patterns across multiple introductions of the globally invasive crab genus Carcinus Molecular Ecology, 17: 4992-5007.

[15] D'Incao, F. 1995. Ocorrência de Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius, 1798) no sul do Brasil (Decapoda: Penaeidae). Nauplius, 3: 165-167.

[16] Forest, J. and Guinot, D. 1958. Sur une collection de crustacés décapodes des côtes d'Israel. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Resarch Station of Israel, 15: 4-16.

[17] Frick, M.G.; Mason, P.A.; Williams, K.L.; Andrews, K. and Gerstung, H. 2003. Epibionts of hawksbill turtles in a Caribbean nesting ground: a potentially unique association with snapping shrimp (Crustacea: Alpheidae). Marine Turtle Newsletter, 99: 8-11.

[18] Ferreira, A.C.; Sankarankuty, C.; Cunha, I.M.C. and Duarte, F.T. 2001. Yet another record of Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Northeast of Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 18: 357-358.

[19] Galil, B. 2006. The marine caravan – the Suez Canal and the Erythrean invasion. p. 207-300. In: Gollasch, S.; Galil, B. and Cohen, A.N. (eds), Bridging divides: maritime canals as invasion corridors. Monographiae Biologicae, Vol. 83, Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg.

[20] Galil, B.; Froglia, C. and Noël, P.Y. 2002. CIESM Atlas of Exotic Species in the Mediterranean 2. Crustaceans: CIESM Publishers, Monaco, 192 pp.

[21] Gollasch, S. 2007. Is ballast water a major dispersal mechanism for marine organisms? p. 49-57. In: Nentwig, W. (ed), Biological Invasions. Ecological Studies, Chapter 4 Vol. 193, Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg.

[22] Gurney, R. 1927. Cambridge expedition to the Suez Canal, 1924. XV. Report on the larvae of Crustacea Decapoda. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22: 231-286.

[23] Hewitt, C.L.; Gollasch, S. and Minchin, D. 2009. The vessel as a vector – biofouling, ballast water and sediments. p. 117-131. In: Rilov, G. and Crooks, J.A. (eds), Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, Chapter 6, Vol. 204, Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg.

[24] Lewinsohn, C. and Galil, B.S. 1982. Notes on species of Alpheus (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Quaderni del Laboratorio di Tecnologia della Pesca, Ancona, 3: 207-210.

[25] Luvesuto, E.; Freitas, P.D. and Galetti, P.M. 2007. Genetic variation in a closed line of the white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Penaeidae). Genetics and Molecular Biology, 30: 1156-1160.

[26] Magalhães, C.; Bueno, S.L.S.; Bond-Buckup, G.; Valenti, W.C; Silva, H.L.M.; Kiyohara, F.; Mossolin, E.L. and Rocha, S.S. 2005. Exotic species of freshwater decapod crustaceans in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: records and possible causes of their introduction. Biodiversity and Conservation, 14: 1929-1945.

[27] Mantelatto, F.L. and Dias L.L. 1999. Extension of the known distribution of Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Decapoda, Portunidae) along the western tropical South Atlantic. Crustaceana, 72(6): 617-620.

[28] Negreiros-Fransozo, M.L. 1996. The zoea I of Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Decapoda Portunidae) obtained in laboratory. Nauplius, 4: 165-168.

[29] Ortmann, A.E. 1894. Crustaceen. In: Semon, R. (ed), Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem malayischen Archipel mit Unterstützung des Herrn Dr. Paul von Ritter ausgeführt in den Jahren 1891-93. Denkschriften der Medicinisch- Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 8: 3-80, pls. 1-3.

[30] Özcan, T.; Suat Ates, A. and Katagan, T. 2007. On the presence of the snapping shrimp, Alpheus rapacida (Decapoda: Caridea) on the Aegean coast of Turkey. JMBA2 - Biodiversity Records.

[31] Santos, M.C.F. and Coelho, P.A. 2002. Espécies exóticas de camarões peneídeos (Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798 e Litopenaeus vannamei Boone, 1931) nos ambientes estuarino e marinho do Nordeste do Brasil. Boletim Técnico- Científico do CEPENE, 10: 207-222

[32] Silva, H.L.M. and Bueno, S.L.S. 2005. Population size estimation of the exotic crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Cambaridae) in the Alfredo Volpi City Park, São Paulo, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 22: 93-98.

[33] Tavares, M. and Mendonça, J.B. Jr. 1996. Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Brachyura: Portunidae), eighth nonindigenous marine decapod recorded from Brazil. Crustacean Research, 25: 151-157.

[34] Tavares, M. and Mendonça, J.B. Jr. 2011. The occurrence of the Indo-Pacific swimming crab Scylla serrata (Forskal, 1775) in the Southwestern Atlantic (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae). Aquatic Invasions, 6, Suppl. 1:S49-S51.

[35] Tavares, M. 2003. On Halicarcinus planatus (Fabricius) (Brachyura, Hymenosomatidae) transported from Chile to Brazil along with the exotic oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg). Nauplius, 11: 45-50.

[36] Tavares, M. 2011. Alien decapod Crustacea in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. p. 251- 268. In: Galil, B.; Clark, P. and Carlton, J. (eds), In the wrong place - alien marine crustaceans: distribution, biology and impacts. Springer, Frankfurt.

[37] Viana, M.G.; Rocha-Barreira, C.A. and Grossi Hijo, C.A. 2005. Macrofauna bentônica da faixa entremarés e zona de arrebentação da praia de Paracuru (Ceará-Brasil). Brazilian Journal of Aquatic Science and Technology, 9: 75-82.

[38] Vinuesa, J.H. 2007. Molt and reproduction of the European green crab Carcinus maenas (Decapoda: Portunidae) in Patagonia, Argentina. Revista de Biología Tropical, 55(Suppl. 1): 49-54.

[39] Wowor, D. and Ng, P.K.L. 2007. The giant freshwater prawns of the Macrobrachium rosenbergii species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 55: 321-336.

[40] Wowor, D. and Ng, P.K.L. 2008. Case 3428. Palaemon rosenbergii De Man, 1879 (currently Macrobrachium rosenbergii; Crustacea, Decapoda): proposed conservation of usage by designation of a neotype. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 65: 288-293.

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