Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG); Campus Samambaia; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; ICB-5; Avenida Esperança s/n; Goiânia; GO; 74690-900; Brazil..
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC); King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955; Saudi Arabia..
Zootaxa. 2023 Apr 27;5271(3):549-559. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5271.3.7.
A new snapping shrimp species of the Alpheus edwardsii (Audouin, 1826) group is described based on two specimens, one male and one female, collected on shallow-water reef flats of the Southern Ari Atoll in the Maldives, with a photographic record from Cebu in the Philippines. Alpheus octocellatus sp. nov. appears to be morphologically closest to A. edwardsii, A. pareuchirus Coutière, 1905, and A. leptochirus Coutière, 1905, but can be distinguished from all of them by a combination of morphological characters, mainly involving the chelipeds, third maxilliped and pleonal sternites. The new species also has a highly diagnostic colour pattern, with four pairs of conspicuous eyespots distributed in a unique and peculiar pattern on the pleon.
一种新的 snapping 虾物种属于 Alpheus edwardsii（Audouin，1826）组，基于在马尔代夫南阿里环礁的浅水珊瑚礁平台上采集的两个标本，一雄一雌，以及来自菲律宾宿务的照片记录而描述。Alpheus octocellatus sp. nov. 在形态上似乎与 A. edwardsii、A. pareuchirus Coutière，1905 和 A. leptochirus Coutière，1905 最为接近，但可以通过一系列形态特征来区分，主要涉及螯足、第三颚足和胸板。新物种还具有高度诊断性的颜色模式，在胸板上有四对明显的眼斑，以独特而奇特的模式分布。
