The systematic importance of color and color pattern: evidence for complexes of sibling species of snapping shrimp (Caridea: Alpheidae: Alpheus) from the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Panama Article

Knowlton, N, Mills, DEK. (1992). The systematic importance of color and color pattern: evidence for complexes of sibling species of snapping shrimp (Caridea: Alpheidae: Alpheus) from the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Panama . 9-27(18),

cited authors

  • Knowlton, N; Mills, DEK

authors

abstract

  • Closely related species of Alpheus are most easily distinguished by small but consistent differences in color and particularly color pattern. Analysis of color pattern holds enormous potential for defining species boundaries in this systematically difficult genus. -Authors

publication date

  • January 1, 1992

volume

  • 9-27

issue

  • 18