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| Potamalpheops | |
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| Potamalpheops johnsoni | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Alpheidae |
| Genus: | Potamalpheops Powell, 1979 |
| Type species | |
| Potamalpheops pylorus Powell, 1979 | |
Potamalpheops is a genus of shrimp in the family Alpheidae. It was originally erected by Powell in 1979 to house species from Africa.[1] Later, Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. realised that the troglobitic shrimp he had described in 1973 from Oaxaca, Mexico as Alpheopsis stygicola, also belonged to the genus,[1] and in 1991, A. J. Bruce described a new species from Australia, further expanding the genus' geographical range.[2] It is now thought to represent a relict taxon from the Tethys Sea.[2]
The following species are currently accepted as valid:[3]
- Potamalpheops amnicus Yeo & Ng, 1997[4]
- Potamalpheops darwiniensis Bruce, 1993
- Potamalpheops galle Anker, 2005[5]
- Potamalpheops hanleyi Bruce, 1991[2]
- Potamalpheops haugi (Coutière, 1906)
- Potamalpheops johnsoni Anker, 2003[6]
- Potamalpheops kisi Marin, 2021[7]
- Potamalpheops miyai Yeo & Ng, 1997[4]
- Potamalpheops monodi (Sollaud, 1932)
- Potamalpheops nazgul Christodoulou, Iliffe & De Grave, 2019[8]
- Potamalpheops palawensis Cai & Anker, 2004
- Potamalpheops pininsulae Bruce & Iliffe, 1992[9]
- Potamalpheops pylorus Powell, 1979
- Potamalpheops stygicola (Hobbs, 1973)[1]
- Potamalpheops tigger Yeo & Ng, 1997[4]
- Potamalpheops tyrymembe Soledade, Santos & Almeida, 2014
- Potamalpheops yamakawai Yamashita, Komai & Koreeda, 2024[10]
An undescribed species from Taiwan thought to belong to this genus, dubbed the "purple zebra shrimp" or "purple crystal shrimp", is sometimes kept in aquaria.[11][12][13] Its mitogenome was studied in 2024. The following cladogram is based on this 2024 study:[14]
References
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- 1 2 3 Hobbs, Horton H. Jr. (1983). "The African shrimp genus Potamalpheops in Mexico (Decapoda, Alpheidae)". Crustaceana. 44 (2): 221–224. doi:10.1163/156854083x00848. JSTOR 20103823.
- 1 2 3 Bruce, A. J. (1991). "The "African" shrimp genus Potamalpheops in Australia, with the description of P. hanleyi, new species (Decapoda: Alpheidae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 11 (4): 629–638. doi:10.2307/1548531. JSTOR 1548531.
- ↑ de Mazancourt, Valentin (2022). "Potamalpheops Powell, 1979". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- 1 2 3 Yeo, D.C.J.; Ng, P.K.L. (3 June 1996). "The alpheid shrimp genus Potamalpheops Powell, 1979, (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae) from Southeast Asia, with descriptions of three new species". Journal of Natural History. 31 (2): 163–190. doi:10.1080/00222939700770111.
- ↑ "Presence of the Alpheid Shrimp Genus Potamalpheops Powell, 1979 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) in South Asia, With Description of a New Species From Sri Lanka" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 12: 31–37. 2005. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 December 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
- ↑ Anker, Arthur (December 2003). "Alpheid shrimps from the mangroves and mudflats of Singapore. Part I. Genera Salmoneus, Athanas and Potamalpheops, with the description of two new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51 (2).
- ↑ Marin, Ivan N. (2021). "A new species of the genus Potamalpheops (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the intertidal mangrove swamps of South Vietnam" (PDF). Arthropoda Selecta. 30 (2): 179–191. doi:10.15298/arthsel.30.2.05. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 August 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
- ↑ Christodoulou, Magdalini; Iliffe, Thomas M.; De Grave, Sammy (2019). "A new anchialine cave dwelling species of Potamalpheops Powell, 1979 from the Solomon Islands (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)". Crustacean Research. 48: 11–21. doi:10.18353/crustacea.48.0_11.
- ↑ Bruce, A. J.; Iliffe, T.M. (June 1992). "Potamalpheops pininsulae sp. nov., a new stygiophilic shrimp from New Caledonia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)". Stygologia. 7 (4): 231–242.
- ↑ Yamashita, Ryunosuke; Komai, Tomoyuki; Koreeda, REO (17 December 2024). "Potamalpheops yamakawai n. sp., representing the first record of the genus from Japan (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae)". Zootaxa. 5555 (1): 91–104. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5555.1.6. PMID 40173595.
- ↑ Sartore, Joel. "INV005-00368". Retrieved 26 February 2026.
- ↑ "Potamalpheops sp". Nanocaridina. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
- ↑ "Taiwan Purple Crystal Shrimp (Potamalpheops sp.)". Aqua Imports. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
- ↑ Das, Sofia Priyadarsani; Kao, Yu-Kai; Nguyen, Huu-The; Lin, Yu-Ru; Liao, Zhen-Hao; Hu, Yeh-Fang; Nan, Fan-Hua (21 November 2024). "Unraveling the Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Potamalpheops Sp. (Purple Zebra Shrimp) (Crustacea: Decapoda) Provides Insights Into Its Phylogenetic Relationships and Gene Order Rearrangements". Ecology and Evolution. 14 (11) e70546. doi:10.1002/ece3.70546. PMC 11581787. PMID 39575143.