Hi folks !
I haven't been here for a while ..
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you
we have a project to produce two small booklets on shallow water decapods and stomatopods of Central America, one for the Pacific side, and one for the Caribbean side
the books are supposed to cover mostly shallow waters from the intertidal to about 20 m, from Belize/Mexico to Panama, it will be used mostly by marine biology students, beach walkers, naturalists, and of course, by snorkellers and divers .. it will be also quite useful outside the area, for example in the eastern Caribbean or Florida
we will include species that are common, but also species that are not not often photographed, e.g., absent from other guides (Sterrer, Humann & Deloach, Kerstitch, Hickman & Zimmerman)
we already have many pictures that we will use in these guides, however, several groups, including some large and conspicuous (+ relatively common) species are clearly underrepresented, because we were concentrating on cryptic fauna from under rocks, rock crevices, seagrass and burrows
if some of you would like to contribute with his/her/their photos PLEASE LET ME KNOW:
artour_a(AT)yahoo.com
we are currently working on a preliminary list of species or genera for which we would need HABITUS PHOTOS, both IN SITU or AQUARIUM/LAB shots, and PREFERRABLY from the following locations:
CARIBBEAN side:
ROATAN - UTILA
COZUMEL
BELIZE
SAN ANDRES - PROVIDENCIA
BOCAS DEL TORO
SAN BLAS
photos from ARUBA - CURACAO - BONAIRE, as well as CAYMAN and VIRGIN IS are also welcome
PACIFIC side:
GULF OF CALIFORNIA
LAS PERLAS
P.N. COIBA
P.N. CHIRIQUI
ISLA COCOS
generally I can say these are the main groups that we need:
SHRIMPS:
Hippolyte spp
Trachycaris spp
Peppermint shrimps (Lysmata spp)
Cinetorhynchus manningi
Palaemon sp
Peneids, sicyonids
Pontoniine shrimps associated with crinoids, gorgonians and black corals
"Mangrove shrimps"
CRABS
Larger majids, portunids, calappids
Leucosiids
Pea crabs associated with clams and urchins
HERMIT CRABS
especially less common Calcinus and Diogenes spp
LOBSTERS
Lobsters and slipper lobsters
Reef lobsters (Enoplometopus spp)
SQUAT LOBSTERS
REEF STOMATOPODS
Gonodactylids
Lysiosquillids
Other stomatopods
thanks in advance
again, all the best to all of you, and greetings from Panama !
