Open AccessNOTES ON SYMBIOTIC DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS FROM GORGONA ISLAND, COLOMBIA, WITH A REVISION OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC SPECIES OF TRAPEZIA (BRACHYURA, XANTHIDAE), SYMBIONTS OF SCLERACTINIAN CORALS
Author(s) -
Peter Castro
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
boletin de investigaciones marinas y costeras/boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2590-4671
pISSN - 0122-9761
DOI - 10.25268/bimc.invemar.1982.12.0.490
Subject(s) - biology , coral , crustacean , cnidaria , ecology , zoology
Collections of decapod crustaceans associated with scleractinian corals at Gorgona Island, Colombia, have provided material for a revision of the eastern Pacific specics of Trapezia (Brachyura, Xanthidae), obligate symbionts of the coral Pocillopora. Four sympatric specie are recognized: T. corallina Gerstaecker, T. formosa Smith, T. ferruginea Latreille, and T. digitalis Latreille. Two species of symbiotic natantian shrimps [Harpiliopsis spinigera (OrtmannJ from Pocillopora and Periclhnenes soror Nobili from asteroids] are recorded from Gorgona for the first time.