Synalpheus fritzmuelleri Coutière, 1909

Synalpheus fritzmuelleri Coutière, 1909 View in CoL

Previous records. Abele, 1976: 273 [around Colón]; Birkeland et al., 1976: 137 [Galeta reef]; Heck, 1977: 338 [around Galeta Island]; Heck, 1979: 199 [Caribbean Panama]; Cubit and Williams, 1983: 24 [Galeta Point]; Duffy, 1992: 131 [San Blas Islands]; Morrison et al., 2004: 575 [San Blas, not Isla Bartolomé, see below]; Anker et al., 2012: 41 [ Isla Grande; Bocas del Toro].

Remarks. One of the most common and widely distributed species in the western Atlantic, ranging from North Carolina and the northern Gulf of Mexico to Santa Catarina, Brazil, including the entire Caribbean Sea, and some isolated islands in the Central Atlantic ( Anker et al., 2012; 2016); lives in male-female pairs in a variety of microhabitats on coral reefs and rocky shore habitats, 0– 51 m. The record of S. fritzmuelleri from Isla Bartolomé in the Las Perlas Archipelago, on the Pacific side of Panama ( Morrison et al., 2004), refers to a different eastern Pacific species, the identity of which remains to be determined.