Alpheus vanderbilti Boone, 1930

Alpheus vanderbilti Boone, 1930 View in CoL

Previous records. Duffy, 1992: 131 [San Blas, as Alpheus cylindricus Kingsley, 1878 ]; Knowlton and Mills, 1992: 2 [Caribbean Panama, as A. cylindricus ]; Knowlton et al., 1993: 1630 [Caribbean Panama, as A. cylindricus ]; Knowlton and Weigt, 1998: 2258 [Caribbean Panama, as A. cylindricus ]; Williams et al., 2001: 377 [Caribbean Panama, as A. cylindricus ]; Anker et al., 2008d: 60 [San Blas].

Remarks. Amphi-Atlantic species, in the western Atlantic recorded from Bermuda southwards to Bahia and Trindade Island, Brazil (Anker et al., 2016); on the Caribbean coast of Panama typically found inside large loggerhead sponges, Spheciospongia vesparia (Lamarck, 1814) , in shallow water (less than 5 m), but also recorded from deep-water rubble down to 45– 67 m. In older Atlantic literature known under the name A. cylindricus , which is now restricted to the tropical eastern Pacific (see Anker et al., 2008d).