Alpheus martini Kim and Abele, 1988
Alpheus martini is an eastern Pacific snapping shrimp first described from Panama. It can be found among sand, muddy sand, silt, and rocks.
Alpheus martini belongs to the Edwardsii species group within the genus Alpheus (Kim and Abele 1988). The species is named after Joel W. Martin, currently of the Los Angeles County Museum. Type locality: Venado Beach, Panama (Kim and Abele 1988), types stored at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM). Holotype: USNM 229942.
Lives among sand, muddy sand, mud, silt, and rocks (Kim and Abele 1988).
Maximum body size (carapace length, or CL) of males is 14.5 mm; females, 15.0 mm (Kim and Abele 1988). Color: body whitish, speckled with greenish spots; major chela uniform green-brown (Mathews and Anker 2009). This species is morphologically and closely related to several other species in the "Alpheus armillatus" species complex (Mathews and Anker 2009).
Sequenced in Mathews and Anker (2009); sequences available in GenBank for 16S mtDNA (FJ528447), COI (FJ528491), myosin heavy chain (FJ528555).
Eastern Pacific: Panama (Kim and Abele 1988).