Relevant Synonyms - Misidentification -  drawing : Tuvia Kurz

SHORT DESCRIPTION Rostrum triangular, shorter than extra-orbital teeth, dorso-ventrally depressed. Carapace bearing three movable spines mid-dorsally. Eye stalk elongate, subcylindrical, setose, reaching beyond end of antennular peduncle. Abdominal pleura with rounded margins. Telson as long as sixth abdominal segment, two pairs of spinules distally on dorsal surface, small triangular projection midway on lateral margins. First pereopods smaller than second, feeble, symmetrical, with chela shorter than carpus. Second legs chelate, carpus four-segmented. color : unrecorded. common size : CL 0.5 cm, TL 2.0 cm. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS Eye-stalk elongate, nine times as long as diameter of cornea. BIOLOGY / ECOLOGY Poorly known. habitat : sandy or muddy sand bottoms, 0-37 m.

1st MEDITERRANEAN RECORD Israel, 1958 [1947]. DISTRIBUTION Worldwide : Indo-West Pacific, Red Sea to Australia. Mediterranean : recorded first from Israel (Holthius and Gottlieb, 1958 [1947]). Recorded in Turkey, Iskenderun to Mersin (Özcan et al., 2008). ESTABLISHMENT SUCCESS Common along the Israeli coast. speculated reasons for success : - MODE OF INTRODUCTION Presumably via the Suez Canal. IMPORTANCE TO HUMANS None.

KEY REFERENCES Banner D.M. and A.H. Banner, 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum, 34(1-2): 1-362. Holthuis L.B. and E. Gottlieb, 1958. An annotated list of the decapod crustacea of the Mediterranean coast of Israel, with an appendix listing the decapoda of the eastern Mediterranean. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, 7B. Zoology (1-2): 1-126. FEEDBACK / COMMENTS TO AUTHORS

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