On the presence of the alpheid shrimp genus Bermudacaris Anker and Iliffe, 2000 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) in the Pacific Ocean, with description of a new species from Vietnam

Abstract

Bermudacaris britayevi n. sp. is described on the basis of a single specimen collected from a burrow, presumably of a callianassid ghost-shrimp, on an intertidal sand-mud flat of Dam Bay of Tre Island, Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam, and is the first record of Bermudacaris in the Pacific Ocean. The new species differs ecologically from the two previously described species, B. harti Anker and Iliffe, 2000 from the anchialine caves of Bermuda in the western Atlantic Ocean, and B. australiensis Anker and Komai, 2004 collected in the western Indian Ocean off northwestern Australia. The original diagnosis of Bermudacaris Anker and Iliffe, 2000 is emended. A key to the three species of Bermudacaris is provided.