Talk:Synalpheus regalis

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Hi everyone,

I am currently adding information to Synalpheus regalis. I'll be working on this for a day, so please don't add/detract right now! Thanks! Alexliu818 (talk) 22:50, 9 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I saw this notice too late. I haven't messed around with the content at all, though, just formatted the content that was there. Good work! --Stemonitis (talk) 06:55, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Peer Edit
Good job on starting your own page! I think it was a great beginning to a page that will soon be complete. My edits included mostly grammatical fixes, but you did a good job and maintained clarity throughout. The page does need some pictures added, and more background and other information besides behavior, though I won't hold it against you as this is a behavior class. A consideration you may want to take into account is your description of experiments. You describe the experiment and the results, which is helpful, but perhaps not necessary. It seems to me like you would be able to make a statement and then just back it up by putting the source. This would lead to a more concise behavior section and allow you to not rely on a single experiment (hopefully others have backed it up or used it for other studies). Katims90 (talk) 22:50, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi! I think this article is awesome! There are very few grammatical mistakes. I just did some minor changes, including adding some inline links to other Wikipedia pages and a heading "Behavior and Ecology" to include all the related materials. To make it more consistent throughout the article, I changed several "Synalpheus" to S. regalis. I agree with what Katims90 said above that it will be good if you can upload some pictures and add more background information such as description, life cycle or even fishing as some other shrimp articles have done. I know this is beyond the scope of behaviors but it would be nice if you help finish well what you have started! --Tianyi Cai (talk) 01:06, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Really admirable work with the completely new wiki entry! I added a few links to assists other wikipedians in navigating the page. The article, I felt, was very complex and I feel many people may actually have a rather difficult time following the concepts mentioned. Perhaps add some clarifications or descriptive modifiers. I agree with the above statements, mostly in the sense that PICTURES would be awesome. Unfortunately, I know how difficult it can be (more annoying than anything else) to add photos, especially if these photos do not exists on Commons yet. Perhaps clarification on some concepts like eusociality or their breeding colony structure would only benefit and not harm. (Timothy Yung) TKYung (talk) 02:42, 17 October 2012 (UTC) This is a very intersting animal since it is one of the few eusocial arthropods outside wasps, bees, ants, and termites. It should be high on importance for this reason. Are you going to fill it out? Agelaia (talk) 05:43, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Taxonomy
Adhering to edits requested in the past, I created a taxonomy section and also added some information on the discovery, behavior and etymology. Any additional information for the taxonomy would be useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maximilianzhang (talk • contribs) 17:52, 23 September 2013 (UTC)


 * The info was a bit outdated. As of 2013, there are at least seven species identified as eusocial among Synalpheus. S. "rathbunae A" has also been formally described as S. elizabethae in 2007 (in the meantime S. "rathbunae B" and S. "rathbunae C", have been identified as S. rathbunae and S. regalis respectively).-- O BSIDIAN  †  S OUL  20:54, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Editing page
To make the page broader in scope, as suggested below, I added a section on appearance and habitat as well as a subsection below behavior on colony structure. In terms of appearance, I expanded on its coloring, male/female differences, and its morphological differences that separate it from other eusocial shrimps. I could not find much on habitat besides the two sponges in Jamaica/Belize it exists in. The section on colony structure explains a possible reason for the eusocial structure of the shrimps in clearer terms than was previously mentioned. NK2015 (talk) 16:27, 22 September 2013 (UTC) NK2015 (talk) 16:19, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Many of the links I had created for the new sections were ambiguous so I fixed them. I also realized that I had not properly attributed one of the sentences to the correct source, so I corrected that. NK2015 (talk) 19:49, 23 September 2013 (UTC) NK2015 (talk) 19:49, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

I removed the internal Wikipedia hyperlinks that linked to other Synalpheus species because they were non-existent (those links came up in red and did not lead to actual Wikipedia pages). 19:12, 26 September 2013 (UTC) NK2015 (talk)


 * I have reverted it. Please see the WP:REDLINK guideline. Despite being visually unappealing, red links are actually good and should be created for the first instance of everything in the article that is relevant enough to the subject, and notable enough to have an article (regardless if they do or not). They encourage additional article creation (for example, I wrote one on S. microneptunus after reading this article), as well as remove the requirement (and the additional hassle) for revisiting the article and linking them again when the articles have been created.


 * I have also changed the first sentence of the lead paragraph. It should be clear that it refers to "a species of shrimp", not simply "a shrimp" (which confusingly implies it's a single individual). It's also a collective noun. It can be referred to in plural or singular depending on the context. In this particular case, it should be plural. I've also narrowed it down to the actual family.-- O BSIDIAN  †  S OUL  20:50, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Life cycle
I created the life cycle section into the article and also added a few images. I tried looking for free images without any license but the images I found had CC-NC license. I used the Wikipedia non-free content use guideline as closely as possible to cite the images. I am also currently going through the text to see if there are any links that may be useful to the text. Jychoe90 (talk) 00:56, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

I added the images back on the page. I was able to get permission from the author of the image to use them in this wikipedia page. Jychoe90 (talk) 03:53, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Images
I'm afraid I've had to delete the images which were used in this article as they were, as far as I could see, only released under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, and so were not free enough for Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. It may be worth contacting the author to ask if (s)he would be willing to release some images under a more free license. J Milburn (talk) 15:29, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Photos?
The BBC's Blue Planet featured this species. This may be a good source for some photos. 2601:642:C481:4640:0:0:0:6FB7 (talk) 04:34, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately those images are copyrighted. --awkwafaba (📥) 15:48, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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