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Alima pacifica


©Miriam Henze: Alima pacifica female from Lizard Island (lab photo).

©Miriam Henze: Alima pacifica female from Lizard Island showing 6 teeth on the dactyl (lab photo).

©Miriam Henze: Alima pacifica female from Lizard Island (lab photo).

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Stomatopoda
Family Squillidae
Genus Alima
Species Alima pacifica

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Colours

              

Distinguishing features

Body milky transparent with light blue, dark and white spots and white lines. Six teeth on raptorial claw (dactyl).

Information provided by Dr Miriam Henze based on personal observations, web resource Roy's List, and Ahyong (2001).

Size

  • Up to 4 cm (Length)

Depth range

  • From 0 m to 5 m

Synonyms

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

Web resources

References

  • Ahyong, S.T. (2001). Revision of the stomatopod Crustacea, Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, 26: 1-326. LIRS catalog number LIRS 2099.
  • Feller, K.D. and T.W. Cronin (2016). Spectral absorption of visual pigments in stomatopod larval photoreceptors. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 202: 215-223. LIRS catalog number 1997.
  • Feller, K.D., J.H. Cohen and T.W. Cronin (2015). Seeing double: visual physiology of double-retina eye ontogeny in stomatopod crustaceans, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 201: 331-339. LIRS catalog number 1876.
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