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Observations on the life history of a rare shrimp, Salmoneus carvachoi (Crustacea: Caridea: Alpheidae), a possible simultaneous hermaphrodite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2015

M.V. Oliveira ,
A.C. Costa-Souza ,
F.J. Guimarães ,
A.O. Almeida  and
J.A. Baeza
M.V. Oliveira
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
A.C. Costa-Souza
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
F.J. Guimarães
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
A.O. Almeida*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
J.A. Baeza
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA Departamento de Biología Marina, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: A.O. Almeida, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Avenida Prof. Moraes Rêgo, 1235, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil email: almeidaao@uol.com.br
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Abstract

This study reports on the life history of a rare alpheid shrimp, Salmoneus carvachoi, in the tropical western Atlantic. At an intertidal flat in Pontal Bay, Ilhéus, Bahia, north-eastern Brazil, S. carvachoi was collected from within burrows of the axianassid mud shrimp Axianassa australis and the caridean snapping shrimps Alpheus estuariensis and Alpheus chacei. These and earlier studies that reported S. carvachoi in dwellings constructed by other larger burrowing crustaceans suggest that S. carvachoi is a generalist species that establishes facultative symbiotic partnerships with larger burrowing decapods. We collected a total of 52 individuals during the sampling period (1 year); 19 (36.5%) of these shrimps carried embryos underneath the abdomen. The mean ± SD carapace length was 4.7 ± 0.7 and 5.5 ± 0.3 mm in non-brooding and brooding shrimps, respectively. All collected specimens, whether or not brooding embryos, bear appendices masculinae on the endopods of the second pleopods. Burrows harboured only one or two shrimps and never three or more shrimps. Pairs of shrimp that inhabited burrows consisted of two brooding shrimps (N = 3 pairs), two non-brooding shrimps (N = 3), or one brooding and one non-brooding shrimp (N = 1). The presence of appendices masculinae in all collected shrimps, whether or not brooding embryos, and the pairing of brooding shrimp within host burrows suggest that S. carvachoi is a simultaneously hermaphroditic species.

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Decapodasymbiosispairingmonogamyhermaphroditism
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 8 , 2015 , e141
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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