• Alpheidae Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organises. Palermo (Italy) : Privately Published 224 pp. [Date published April to July] [98] [as Alphidia; name, in the corrected spelling Alpheidae, placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1–44, the incorrect original spelling Alphidia, was also placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology, in the same Opinion].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1-44.
• Alpheens Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [339, 345] [name placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1–44].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1-44.
• Alpheopsides Coutière, H. 1897. Note sur quelques genres nouveaux ou peu connus d'alphéidés, format la sous-famille des alphéopsides. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2(8): 380-386 [dated 1896].
• Crangonidae Rathbun, 1904.
• Autonomaeidae Borradaile, 1907.
• Synalpheidae Verrill, 1922.
• Pterocarididae Christoffersen, 1990.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp. [187]

Introduction

This distinctive group of shrimps is circumglobal in distribution. Species are commonly found to 45º north and south latitude, with some extending to 60º. They are common in a variety of habitats, from the littoral zone to as deep as 875 metres, and at least one tropical species occurs in freshwater. They are especially numerous on coral reefs (Chace 1988).

The late Albert and Dora Banner provided the most comprehensive treatments of Australian Alpheidae, and their work is central to any study of the members of this family (see Banner & Banner 1973, 1975, 1982a, 1982b, 1986). More recently Bruce (1983, 1987, 1988a, 1988b, 1991, 1993, 1994) has also made a significant contribution. Holthuis (1993) provided the most recent key to genera.

Diagnosis

Rostrum, if present, usually immovably attached to remainder of carapace, without single subterminal dorsal tooth; carapace with cardiac notch present; eyestalks short, often partially or completely concealed by carapace; antennule with dorsolateral flagellum usually more or less bifurcate; second maxilliped with dactylus applied as strip to mesial margin of flexed propodus; third maxilliped bearing well-developed exopod. Pereiopods generally without distinct exopods; two anterior pairs distinctly chelate; first pereiopods (P1) robust, usually longer and more developed than P2, often sexually dimorphic; second pair with carpus subdivided into three to five segments, three posterior pairs not unusually elongate, carpus shorter than propodus. (Modified after Chace 1988).

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1973. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part I: The lower genera. Records of the Australian Museum 28(15): 291-382 figs 1-19

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1975. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part 2: The genus Synalpheus. Records of the Australian Museum 29(12): 267-389 figs 1-29, appendix

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Supplement I. Records of the Australian Museum 34(2): 359-362 fig. 1

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1986. Two new species of Alpheid shrimp from Australian waters. The Beagle. Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3(1): 21-27

Bruce, A.J. 1983. Pseudathanas darwiniensis new genus, new species, an Alpheid shrimp from the Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Crustacean Biology 3(3): 463-471

Bruce, A.J. 1987. A new species of alpheid shrimp, Alpheus bannerorum from Northern Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 4(1): 61-72

Bruce, A.J. 1988. Bannereus anomalus, new genus, new species, a deep-sea alpheid shrimp from the Coral Sea. Pacific Science 42(3–4): 139-149

Bruce, A.J. 1988. Synalpheus dorae, a new commensal alpheid shrimp from the Australian Northwest Shelf. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(4): 843-852

Bruce, A.J. 1991. The "African" shrimp genus Potamalpheops in Australia, with the description of P. hanleyi, new species (Decapoda: Alpheidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 11(4): 629-638

Bruce, A.J. 1993. Potamalpheops darwiniensis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), the third Indo-west Pacific species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 106(4): 698-704

Bruce, A.J. 1994. Alpheus fenneri sp. nov. and A. williamsi sp. nov., two new Indo-west Pacific Alpheid shrimps of the Brevirostris species group. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 11: 15-28

Chace, F.A., Jr 1988. The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 5: Family Alpheidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 466: 1-99

Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp.

History of changes

• Alpheopsis Coutière, H. 1897. Note sur quelques genres nouveaux ou peu connus d'alphéidés, format la sous-famille des alphéopsides. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2(8): 380-386 [dated 1896] [382] [name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1959. Opinion 559. Determination of the gender to be attributed to six generic names in the Class Crustacea (Order Decapoda) and addition of the names concerned to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 20: 283–292; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Betaeus trispinosus Stimpson, 1860 by subsequent designation, see Holthuis, L.B. 1955. The recent genera of the caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda, Supersection Natantia) with keys for their determination. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 26: 1-157 [32].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1959. Opinion 559. Determination of the gender to be attributed to six generic names in the Class Crustacea (Order Decapoda) and addition of the names concerned to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 20: 283-292.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Pantropical.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Alpheopsis aequalis Coutière, H. 1897. Note sur quelques genres nouveaux ou peu connus d'alphéidés, format la sous-famille des alphéopsides. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2(8): 380-386 [dated 1896] [382].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP, Red Sea and Indian Ocean;
  Status unknown, MNHP, Indian Ocean.
• Alpheopsis equalis truncatus Coutière, H. 1903. Note sur quelques Alpheidae des Maldives et Laquedives. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 5(9): 72-90, 38 figs [89 figs 37, 38].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Goifufahendu Atoll.
• Alpheopsis consobrinus de Man, J.G. 1910. Diagnoses of new species of macrurous decapod Crustacea from the "Siboga Expedition". Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging II 11(4): 287-319 [305].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA, between Nusa Besi and the NE point of Timor, Indonesia (Siboga Stn 282).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1973. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part I: The lower genera. Records of the Australian Museum 28(15): 291-382 figs 1-19 [342]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (East Africa and Red Sea to Hawai'i).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, littoral.

Extra Ecological Information

From dead coral.

General References

Chace, F.A., Jr 1988. The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 5: Family Alpheidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 466: 1-99 [5] (corrected spelling of species name)

History of changes

• Betaeus trispinosus Stimpson, W. 1860. Crustacea Macrura. Pars VIII of Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 12: 22-47 [32].

  Type data:

   Neotype AM P8230 ♂, Green Cape, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1973. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part I: The lower genera. Records of the Australian Museum 28(15): 291-382 figs 1-19 [337].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific (Madagascar, Réunion Island).

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths of 46–139 m.

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1973. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part I: The lower genera. Records of the Australian Museum 28(15): 291-382 figs 1-19 [337]

History of changes

• Alpheopsis undicola Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1973. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part I: The lower genera. Records of the Australian Museum 28(15): 291-382 figs 1-19 [340 fig. 15].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P18002 ♂, Opal Reef, Great Barrier Reef, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P18003 ♀ (as allotype).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in dead coral.

History of changes

• Alpheopsis yaldwyni Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1973. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part I: The lower genera. Records of the Australian Museum 28(15): 291-382 figs 1-19 [344 fig. 17].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P18005 ♀, One Tree Island, Capricorn Group, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P18006 1♂ 1♀; AM P18007 1♀ 1♂; AM P19167 1♀ 1♂.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

W Pacific (Indonesia, Micronesia, Ryukyu Islands).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From broken coral heads.

History of changes

• Alpheus Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [380, 404] [junior homonym of Alpheus Weber, 1795, but that name suppressed for the Principle of Priority and that of Homonymy, under the plenary powers of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature; name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1–44; gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Alpheus avarus Fabricius, 1798 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [42].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1-44.
• Crangon Weber, F. 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum entomologian systematicam ill. Fabricii, adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus. Chiloni et Hamburgi : C.E. Bohn viii 171 pp. [94] [name placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1–44 ; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Astacus malabaricus Fabricius, 1775 by monotypy (as Astacus Malabaricus).

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1-44.
• Cryptophthalmus Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C.S. 1814. Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de M. r. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814. Ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. Palermo : Royale Typographie Militaire 55 pp. + errata. [23] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cryptophthalmus ruber Rafinesque, 1814 by monotypy.
• Autonomaea Risso, A. 1816. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés des environs de Nice. Paris. pp. 84-175 pls 1-3 [166] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Autonomaea olivii Risso, 1816 by monotypy (as Autonomaea Olivii, = Cancer glaber Olivier, 1792).
• Asphalius Roux, P. 1831. Mémoire sur la classification des Crustacés de la tribu des Salicoques. Marseilles. 4 tables, 39 pp. [22] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Palaemon brevirostris Olivier, 1811 by monotypy.
• Dienecia Westwood, J.O. 1835. [no title]. Magazine of Natural History 8: 552 [552] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Hippolyte ruber Hailstone, 1835 by monotypy (as Hippolyte ? ruber, = Hippolyte macrocheles Hailstone, 1835).
• Nauplius Risso, A. 1844. Nouveau guide du voyageur dans Nice. 2. Paris. 95 pp. [95] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Nika variegata Risso, 1816 by subsequent designation, see Holthuis, L.B. 1977. The Mediterranean decapod and Stomatopod Crustacea in A. Risso's published works and manuscripts. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice 5: 37-88 [76] (= Alpheus dentipes Guérin Méneville, 1832).
• Phleusa Nardo, G.D. 1847. Sinonimia moderna delle specie registrale nell' opera intitolata: Descrizione de'Crostacei de'Testaceo e de Pesci che abitano le lagune e golfo veneto rappresentati in figure, a chiaro-scuro ed a colori Dall' Abate Stefano Chiereghini Ven. Coldiense applicata per commissione governativa dal Dr. Gio. Venezoa : Domenico Nardo. [6] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Phleusa cynea Nardo, 1847 by monotypy.
• Halopsyche Saussure, H. de 1857. Note carcinologique sur la famille des Thalassides et sur celle des Astacides. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 9(2): 99-102.

  Type species:

   Halopsyche lutaria De Saussure, 1857 by monotypy (= Alpheus heterochaelis Say, 1818).
• Alpheoides Paul'son, O.M. 1875. Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea with Notes regarding other Seas. Part I. Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). Jerusalem : The Israel Program for Scientific Translations 164 pp. 21 pls. [reissued and translated by F.D. Por, 1961] [105] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Alpheus insignus Heller, 1861 by subsequent designation, see Holthuis, L.B. 1955. The recent genera of the caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda, Supersection Natantia) with keys for their determination. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 26: 1-157.
• Paralpheus Spence Bate, C. 1888. Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 24: 1-942, i-xc figs 1-76 pls 1-150 [567] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Palaemon diversimanus Olivier, 1811 by monotypy.
• Thunor Armstrong, J.C. 1949. New Caridea from the Dominican Republic. American Museum Novitates 1410: 1-27 [12] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Crangon rathbunae Schmitt, 1924 by monotypy (= Alpheus simus Guérin Méneville, 1856).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp. [190]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, Atlantic Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Distribution References

History of changes

• Alpheus acutocarinatus de Man, J.G. 1909. Diagnoses of new species of macrurous decapod Crustacea from the "Siboga Expedition". Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging 2 11(2): 99-125 [104].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA ♂ ♀, Madura Strait, Bay of Labuan Tring, west of Kwandang-bay-entrance, east coast of Sumbawa, Indonesia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Ocean (Madagascar, Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, soft bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Dredged, 20–72 m.

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [225] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus acutofemoratus Dana, J.D. 1852. Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6: 10-28 [22] [also Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea. United States Exploring Expedition 13: 1–685 (550)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Balabac Straits, N Borneo.

  Secondary source:

   Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea, Part 1. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(1): 1-685.
• Alpheus parabrevipes Coutière, H. 1898. Note sur quelques alphéidés nouveaux de la collection du British Museum (Crust). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1898(6): 149-152, 2 figs [151].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Samoa, Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [77]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Andaman Sea, Gulf of Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia east to Marshall Islands, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

From heads of coral, intertidal pools, to 3 m depth.

History of changes

• Alpheus alcyone de Man, J.G. 1902. Die von Herrn Professor Kükenthal im Indischen Archipel gesammelten Dekapoden und Stomatopoden. In, Kükenthal, W. Ergebnisse einer Zoologischen Forschungsreise in den Molukken und Borneo. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25: 467-929 pls 19-27 [870].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ternate, Indonesia.
• Alpheus aculeipes Coutière, H. 1905. Marine Crustaceans. XV. Les Alpheidae. (pp. 852-921, pls. LXX-LXXXVII, figs 127-139) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part IV) pp. 807–921, pls. LXVII-LXXXVII. [892 pl. 79 fig. 31].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 23 specimens ♂ ♀, Maldive Islands: South Nilandu Atoll, Hulule Male Atoll, North Male Atoll, Miladumadulu Atoll, Naifaro Reef; Djibouti; Mozambique.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [110]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Caroline and Marshall Islands, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga).

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

In sponges or dead coral heads, depths to 131 m.

History of changes

• Alpheus amirantei Coutière, H. 1908. Sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'Alpheidae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 10(5–6): 191-216 [205].

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [76]

Distribution

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

History of changes

• Alpheus architectus de Man, J.G. 1897. Bericht über die von herrn Schiffscapitän Storm zu Atjeh, an den westlichen Küsten von Malakka, Bornio und Celebes sowie in der Java-See gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden (Part 5). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 9: 725-788 figs 60-73 [726 fig. 60].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 2 specimens, Atjeh (Sumatra, Indonesia).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa, Madagascar, Indonesia).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under corals, and from eel grass beds.

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [184] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus arethusa de Man, J.G. 1909. Diagnoses of new species of macrurous decapod Crustacea from the "Siboga Expedition". Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging 2 11(2): 99-125 [100].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA ♂ ♀, Haingsisi, Samau Island, Timor, Indonesia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

(Heron Island), and Indonesia.

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, reef flat, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Taken from heads of dead coral.

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [110] (identified from Australia with some reserve)

History of changes

• Alpheus astrinx Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 365 ♀, Garden Island, near Perth, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM 2♀ 2♂.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, shallow subtidal.

History of changes

• Alpheus australiensis Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [256 fig. 79].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P6352 ♂, Caloundra, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P27264 ♀ (as allotype); AM P27205 1 specimen; AM P27221 11 specimens; AM P27220 2 specimens; AM P27202 1 specimen; AM P27222 4 specimens; AM P27203 3 specimens; AM P27254 1 specimen; AM P10980 1 specimen; AM P27255 13 specimens; AM P27204 2 specimens; AM P27248 10 specimens; AM P27201 1 specimen.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, estuary, intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks, in eel grass beds, often found burrowing in sandy-mud to mud.

History of changes

• Alpheus australosulcatus Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [83 fig. 21].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P13551 ♀, North Head, Flinders, VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Dredged.

History of changes

• Alpheus balaenodigitus Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [223 fig. 70].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 172-65 ♀ (8 fms), Port Walcott, WA [20°39'S, 117°10'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidally under rocks on sand, to 15 m depth.

History of changes

• Alpheus bannerorum Bruce, A.J. 1987. A new species of alpheid shrimp, Alpheus bannerorum from Northern Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 4(1): 61-72 [61 figs 1-6, pl. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.004429A ♀, Dudley Point, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) NTM Cr.004429B ♂ (as allotype); NTM Cr.004429C–E; USNM 23408; BPBM 1987.283 S–10805; RMNH 37181.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Reef flat pool, intertidal pools.

History of changes

• Alpheus barbatus Coutière, H. 1897. Note sur quelques Alphéidés nouveaux ou peu connus rapportés de Djibouti (Afrique orientale). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 3: 233-236 [235].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 3 specimens, Djibouti, NE Africa.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa, Red Sea, Indonesia, Philippines).

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths to 10 m.

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [163] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus bicostatus de Man, J.G. 1908. Diagnoses of new species of Macrurous decapod Crustacea from the "Siboga-Expedition" III. Notes from the Leyden Museum 30(14): 98-112 [102].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA ♂ ♀, Indonesia and Philippines area: Kepulauan Balabalagan, Makassar Strait; off North Ubian Is., Sulu Archipelago; Selat Butung, southern Celebes [Sulawesi].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Kenya and Madagascar to Indonesia and Philippines).

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths to 12 m.

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [124] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Palaemon bidens Olivier, A.G. 1811. Palémon. pp. 652-667 in Olivier, A.G. (ed.). Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes. Paris : H. Agasse Vol. 8 722 pp. [663].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as 'sur les cotes de la Nouvelle-Hollande').
• Alpheus tridentatus Zehntner, L. 1894. Crustacés de l'Archipel malais. Voyage de MM.M. Bedot and C. Pictet dans l'Archipel malais. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 2: 135-214 pls 7-9 [204 pl. VIII fig. 24].

  Type data:

   Holotype GMNH 1 specimen, Amboina, indonesia.
• Alpheus dissodontonotus Stebbing, T.R.R. 1915. South African Crustacea (Part VIII). Annals of the South African Museum 15: 57-104 pls 8-25 [83 pl. 86].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAM ♀, off Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [136]

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

S coast, east Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Mostly intertidal collections, also found in heads of coral, dredged to depths of 83 m.

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [185] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus bisincisus De Haan, W. 1844. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850, Atlas dated 1844] [179 pl. 45 fig. 3] [de Haan introduced this species on pl. 45; in the text, which appeared in 1849, de Haan synonymised Alpheus bisincisus with Alpheus avarus Fabricius, 1798; but the name bisincisus remains available, and is valid because the two species are now considered to be distinct species].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH D5545 1 dry specimen, Japan.
• Alpheus bisincisus malensis Coutière, H. 1905. Marine Crustaceans. XV. Les Alpheidae. (pp. 852-921, pls. LXX-LXXXVII, figs 127-139) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part IV) pp. 807–921, pls. LXVII-LXXXVII. [910 pl. 86].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 3♂ 1♀, Maldive Islands: South Male Atoll, Suvadiva Atoll, South Nilandu Atoll, Mulaku Atoll.
• Alpheus bisincisus stylirostris Coutière, H. 1905. Marine Crustaceans. XV. Les Alpheidae. (pp. 852-921, pls. LXX-LXXXVII, figs 127-139) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part IV) pp. 807–921, pls. LXVII-LXXXVII. [911 pl. 86].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Mulaku Atoll, Maldive Ils.
• Alpheus bisincisus variabilis de Man, J.G. 1909. Diagnoses of new species of macrurous decapod Crustacea from the "Siboga Expedition". Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging 2 11(2): 99-125 [109].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA ♂ ♀, Makassar, Indonesia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [263]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal pools, in sponge, in seagrass beds, dredged from mud and sand to depths of 45 m.

History of changes

• Alpheus brevicristatus De Haan, W. 1844. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850, Atlas dated 1844] [pl. 45 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH D21105 dry specimen, Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH D1011 1 specimen, Japan; RMNH D5548 1 dry specimen, Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Yamaguchi, T. & Baba, K. 1993. Crustacean specimens collected in Japan by Ph.F. von Siebold and H. Bürger and held by the National Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden and other museums. pp. 145-563 in Yamaguchi, T. (ed.). Ph.F. von Siebold and Natural History of Japan Crustacea. Japan : Shimoda Printing Inc. [223].
• Alpheus kingsleyi Miers, E.J. 1879. On a collection of Crustacea made by Capt H.C. St. John, R.N., in the Corean and Japanese Seas. Part I. Podophthalmia. With and Appendix by Capt H.C. St. John. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1879: 18-61 pls 1-3 [54].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• De Grave, S. & Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The recent species of the Dendrobrachiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 85(9): 195-589, figs 1-59 [380]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

General References

Bruce, A.J. & Coombes, K.E. 1997. An annotated check-list of the Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Darwin Harbour, with descriptions of three new species of Periclimenes [Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae]. pp. 301-337 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. [321] (Australian record)

History of changes

• Palaemon brevirostris Olivier, A.G. 1811. Palémon. pp. 652-667 in Olivier, A.G. (ed.). Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes. Paris : H. Agasse Vol. 8 722 pp. [664 pl. 319 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as New Holland).
• Alpheus dispar Randall, J.W. 1840. Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J.K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the Collection of the Academy. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8(1): 106-147 pls 3-7 [141].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP CA246, Manila.

  Type locality references:

  Chace, F.A., Jr 1988. The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 5: Family Alpheidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 466: 1-99.
• Alpheus brevirostris angustodigitus de Man, J.G. 1911. The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part II. Family Alpheidae. Siboga-Expéditie Report Livr. 60 Mon. 39a1 22: 133-465 [253].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA 1♂ 1♀, Balikpapan, Indonesia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bruce, A.J. 1994. Alpheus fenneri sp. nov. and A. williamsi sp. nov., two new Indo-west Pacific Alpheid shrimps of the Brevirostris species group. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 11: 15-28 [22]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

History of changes

• Alpheus brucei Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Supplement I. Records of the Australian Museum 34(2): 359-362 fig. 1 [359 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P30803 ♀, Heron Island, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From a head of coral (Porites andrewsi).

History of changes

• Alpheus bucephalus Coutière, H. 1905. Marine Crustaceans. XV. Les Alpheidae. (pp. 852-921, pls. LXX-LXXXVII, figs 127-139) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part IV) pp. 807–921, pls. LXVII-LXXXVII. [890].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 7 specimens ♂ ♀, Hulule Male Atoll, Minikoi, Maldive Ils.
• Alpheus consobrinus de Man, J.G. 1908. Diagnoses of new species of Macrurous decapod Crustacea from the "Siboga-Expedition" III. Notes from the Leyden Museum 30(14): 98-112 [101].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA numerous specimens, Indonesia and Philippines area: Borneo Bank, Sulu Archipelago, Kwandang Bay, Siau Is., Rotti Is., Paternoster Ils.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [120]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan, Philippines and east to Line and Society Islands).

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in dead coral heads, in pairs in tubes in algae and sponge, depths to 81 m.

History of changes

• Alpheus bunburius Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [213 fig. 66].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 271-65 ♀, Bunbury, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

History of changes

• Alpheus chiragricus Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [354].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, 'les mers d'Asie'.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa, Madagascar, Mergui Archipelago, Indonesia).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, intertidal, rocky shore, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks, in dead coral heads, intertidal pools to 20 m depth.

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [267] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus collumianus Stimpson, W. 1860. Crustacea Macrura. Pars VIII of Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 12: 22-47 [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (presumably lost), Bonin Ils, NW Pacific.
• Alpheus malhaensis Coutière, H. 1908. Sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'Alpheidae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 11(5): 1-26 [205(15)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♂ ♀, Amirante Ils, Seychelles; and Saya de Malha Bank.
• Alpheus collumianus inermis Banner, A.H. 1956. Contributions to the knowledge of the Alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Part I. Collections from the Mariana Archipelago. Pacific Science 10(3): 318-378 23 figs [342 fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂, off Saipan, Mariana Ils.
  Paratype(s) USNM.
• Alpheus collumianus medius Banner, A.H. 1956. Contributions to the knowledge of the Alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Part I. Collections from the Mariana Archipelago. Pacific Science 10(3): 318-378 23 figs [340 fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM, Hawai'i.
  Paratype(s) ♂.
• Alpheus collumianus probabilis Banner, A.H. 1956. Contributions to the knowledge of the Alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Part I. Collections from the Mariana Archipelago. Pacific Science 10(3): 318-378 23 figs [338].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, off north-west coast of Saipan, Mariana Ils.
  Paratype(s) USNM.
• Alpheus seurati Coutière, H. 1905. Marine Crustaceans. XV. Les Alpheidae. (pp. 852-921, pls. LXX-LXXXVII, figs 127-139) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part IV) pp. 807–921, pls. LXVII-LXXXVII. [881].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [45]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (Madagascar to Japan and east to Hawai'i and Society Islands).

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, reef flat, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Commonly in dead coral heads, dredged to depths of 76 m.

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [187] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is probably a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus cristatus Coutière, H. 1897. Note sur un nouveau genre d'alphéidés. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 3(7): 301-303 [303].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Thursday Is., Torres Strait, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Maldives.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Dredged to depths of about 9 m.

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [122] (new Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus deuteropus Hilgendorf, F. 1879. Die von Herrn W. Peters in Moçambique gesammelten Crustaceen, bearbeitet von Herrn Dr. F. Hilgendorf. Monatsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 782-851 pls 1-4 [834 pl. 14 figs 8-10].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB, Zanzibar, east Africa.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan and east to Hawai'i).

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in fissures in massive heads of living coral, intertidal to depths of 35 m.

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [42] (Australian records and remarks on habitat and biology)

History of changes

• Alpheus diadema Dana, J.D. 1852. Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6: 10-28 [23].

  Type data:

   Neotype USNM, Lahaina, Maui, Hawai'i.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Banner, A.H. 1953. The Crangonidae or snapping shrimp of Hawaii. Pacific Science 7(1): 1-147 50 figs.
• Alpheus insignis Heller, C. 1862. Beiträge zur crustaceen-fauna des Rothen Meeres. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 44(1): 241-295 3 pls [269 pl. 3 figs 17, 18].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Red Sea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [140]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific (East Africa to Japan and east to Hawai'i).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Most commonly taken intertidally, under rocks or in heads of coral.

General References

Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1982. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part III: The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus, and the family Ogyrididae. Records of the Australian Museum 34(1): 1-357 figs 1-95 [140] (Australian records)

Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea, Part 1. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(1): 1-685 [555 pl. 35 fig. 7] (fuller description and figures appeared after the original publication)

History of changes

• Alpheus digitalis De Haan, W. 1844. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850, Atlas dated 1844] [178 pl. 45 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH D5547 1 dry specimen, Japan.
• Alpheus distinguendus de Man, J.G. 1909. Note sur quelques espèces du genre Alpheus Fabr. appartenant au Groupe brevirostris de M. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 22: 146-164 pls 7, 8 [155 pl. 7 figs 9-14].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH D5535 1 dry specimen, Japan.
  Paratype(s) RMNH D5534 3 dry specimens, Japan; RMNH D5536 1 dry specimen, Japan.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bruce, A.J. 1994. Alpheus fenneri sp. nov. and A. williamsi sp. nov., two new Indo-west Pacific Alpheid shrimps of the Brevirostris species group. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 11: 15-28 [22]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Nocturnal, in depths less than 37 m.

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [188] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes