Alpheus digitalis is a species of pistol shrimp in the family Alpheidae.[1][2] The species was first discovered after a taxonomic study of a snapping shrimp from the genus Alpheus from Japan and the Gulf of Thailand, of which, it was found that two species was confounded under A.digitalis, which was originally described based on a single specimen possessing abnormal chelipeds.[3][4][5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Alpheidae |
| Genus: | Alpheus |
| Species: | A. digitalis
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| Alpheus digitalis De Haan, 1844
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Differences between A. digitalis & A.longiforceps
editBetween the two species, the most unique difference is coloration and morphology. A.longiforceps, the new species, can be differentiated from A.digitalis by the more slender (rather than connex), flexor margin, the longer male minor chela, more elongate dactylus, possession of a single (rather than two), obliquely transverse white bands on the spot which is located on the lateral surface of the fourth abdominal region. The present day new species is referred to the Alpheus brevirostris species group, mainly because of the compressed palm of the major cheliped and the subpatulate ductylus of the pereiopods 3 and 4.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Taxonomy". Uniprot. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "De Haan, Alpheus Digitalis". doi:10.1007/BF00164325. S2CID 32212098.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Identity and description of Alpheus Digitalis, De Haan, 1844". Research Gate. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Alpheus Digitalis". Discover Life. Archived from the original on 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Alpheus digitalis". prezi.com. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Alpheus digitalis de Haan, 1844". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Species". Pubnag. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "PDF on Alpheus Digitalis" (PDF). Decapoda.nhm.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Alpheus Digitalis and Alpheus Longiforceps". Itis.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Life". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ Yang, Hoi Jeong; Kim, Chang Hyun (2002-01-01). "Early zoeas of two snapping shrimps Alpheus digitalis de Haan, 1850 and alpheus japonicus Miers, 1879 (de capo da, Caridea, Alpheidae) with notes on the larval character of the Alpheidae". Korean Journal of Biological Sciences. 6 (2): 95–105. doi:10.1080/12265071.2001.9647641. ISSN 1226-5071. S2CID 84221778.
- ^ "Advanced search". mare.istc.cnr.it. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Alpheus digitalis, forceps snapping shrimp : fisheries". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ Siebold, Philipp Franz von; Haan, W. de(Willem); Temminck, C. J. (Coenraad Jacob); Schlegel, H. (Hermann) (1833). Fauna japonica, sive, Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830. Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University. Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Auctorem.