Comprehensive Description
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Alpheus simus Guérin-Méneville
Alpheus simus Guérin-Méneville, 1855: xix, pl. 2: fig. 11.
TYPE-LOCALITY.—Cuba.
DISTRIBUTION.—This species has probably not been found again since it was described from Cuba (see “Remarks”).
DISTRIBUTION.—Florida Keys to Trinidad and westward to Curaçao and the Yucatan Peninsula; littoral and sublittoral.
*Genus Automate De Man, 1888
- bibliographic citation
- Chace, Fenner Albert, Jr. 1972. "The shrimps of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions with a summary of the West Indian shallow-water species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-179. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.98
Depth range
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Shallow-waters (0-100 m)
Poupin, J. (2018). Les Crustacés décapodes des Petites Antilles: Avec de nouvelles observations pour Saint-Martin, la Guadeloupe et la Martinique. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 264 p. (Patrimoines naturels ; 77).
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Habitat
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Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Poupin, J. (2018). Les Crustacés décapodes des Petites Antilles: Avec de nouvelles observations pour Saint-Martin, la Guadeloupe et la Martinique. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 264 p. (Patrimoines naturels ; 77).
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