Philippines Critter...please help?

[DevonDiver]

Found this tiny crustacean on a dive in Subic Bay, Philippines. Anyone help me with identification please?

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[Vie]

Kemponia cf tenuipes ?

 

[Quero]

I think Vie is right. It looks like Kemponia cf tenuipes. In case you try to look it up in crustacea books or online, it's worthwhile noting that long-armed shrimp previously classified in the Periclimenes genus have been reclassified to the Kemponia genus, so do try looking under both the "new" name Kemponia cf tenuipes and the "old" one Periclimenes cf tenuipes.

 

[Rick Murchison]

What's this "cf" business? Is that a notation for subspecies or something? (In my defense of ignorance, my systematic botany/zoology training was in the 60's )
Rick

 

[Quero]

What's this "cf" business? Is that a notation for subspecies or something? (In my defense of ignorance, my systematic botany/zoology training was in the 60's )
Rick

Well, it's used when there's some doubt whether a species is a variation of an already named/identified species or is indeed distinct from it. The uncertainty is noted by way of adding "cf" to the name of the species to which it is compared. So in this instance (Andy's shrimp), it may be the case that this shrimp is a variation of the species tenuipes or it may be the case that it's a separate species.

 

[Rick Murchison]

Well, it's used when there's some doubt whether a species is a variation of an already named/identified species or is indeed distinct from it. The uncertainty is noted by way of adding "cf" to the name of the species to which it is compared. So in this instance (Andy's shrimp), it may be the case that this shrimp is a variation of the species tenuipes or it may be the case that it's a separate species.

Graci prego!
Rick