Hyperdiverse animal groups raise intriguing questions regarding the factors that generate and maintain their diversity. The snapping shrimp genus Alpheus (with >300 described species) is a spectacularly diversified group of decapod crustaceans that

Hyperdiverse animal groups raise intriguing questions regarding the factors that generate and maintain their diversity. The snapping shrimp genus Alpheus (with >300 described species) is a spectacularly diversified group of decapod crustaceans that

The burrowing behaviour and burrows of the snapping shrimp Alpheus glaber are described from laboratory observations of animals collected by trawl at 72 m depth off Ancona, Central Adriatic. Resin casts of burrows were taken in laboratory aquaria.