Synalpheus minus ( Say, 1818 )

Paixão, Pedro Henrique, Terossi, Mariana, Pasinatto, Karmine, Bochini, Gabriel Lucas & Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira, 2025, Shrimps of the genus Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888 (Decapoda: Alpheidae) from Northeast Brazil region, Zootaxa 5666 (1), pp. 1-52 : 30

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5666.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16610209
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scientific name	Synalpheus minus ( Say, 1818 )
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Material examined: Paraíba —1 M, Akaroa Expedition, St. 03, 08º56′15′′S 34º57′40′′W, MOUFPE 15788 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Pernambuco—Continental Shelf off Recife: 1 F, 27.ii.2018, 8°13′52.1′′S 34°37′39.1′′W, 50.8 m depth, in sponge, MOUFPE 21541 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Ilha de Itamaracá : 1 M, Ilha de Itamaracá , St. 01, Forte Orange, MOUFPE 8789 View Materials ; 1 M, Forte Orange , 27.i.1990, MOUFPE 8789 View Materials .

Description: Coutière (1909) and Christoffersen (1979).

Distribution: Bermuda and from USA (North Carolina) to Brazil (Abrolhos and from Ceará to São Paulo) ( Christoffersen 1979, 1998; Almeida et al. 2018b; this study).

Ecology: Among rocks, in coralline rocks with algae, in calcareous algae, reefs of Phragmatopoma sp. , and in association with ascidians and sponges (e.g., Callyspongia sp. , Ircinia sp. , Hymeniacidon sp. , Pseudoceratina sp. , Xestospongia sp. ); in heterosexual pairs; intertidal to 85 m ( Christoffersen 1979; Anker et al. 2012).

Remarks: Synalpheus minus is part of the S. brevicarpus complex, as mentioned above.