History of changes

• 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

• Alpheus djeddensis Coutière, H. 1897. Note sur quelques espèce du genre Alpheus du Musée de Leyde. Notes from the Leyden Museum 19(23): 195-207 [202].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH D 1781 ♂ ♀, Djeddah, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (Red Sea eastwards to Society Islands).

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, burrower, coral reef, sand bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Shares burrow in a commensal association with a goby fish.

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 [180] (Australian records and review of biology)

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 probably a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus dolerus 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 [362 fig. 21].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂, Saipan, Mariana Ils.
  Paratype(s) ♀ (as allotype); 12 specimens.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Philippines, and east to Hawai'i).

IMCRA

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

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From coral heads, to 5 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 [205] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus hippothoe edamensis de Man, J.G. 1888. Bericht über die von Herrn Dr. J. Brock im indischen Archipel gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 53(1): 215-600 pls 7-22, 22a [for publication date Clark, P.F., Harrison, K. & Goodman, S.L. 1990. Brock's Indian Archipelago Decapoda and Stomatopoda by De Man: 1887 or 1888?. Arch. Nat. Hist. 17(1): 79–80] [518].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 9 specimens, Pulo Edam and Amboina [Ambon], Indonesia.
• Alpheus acanthomerus Ortmann, A.E. 1890. Die Unterordnung Natantia Boas: Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z.Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen, I. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 5: 437-542 pls 36, 37 [474 pl. 36 fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 1 specimen, Tahiti.

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 [188]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Madagascar to Ryukyus, Philippines, Fiji, Samoa, Society Islands).

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths to 50 m.

History of changes

• Athanas edwardsii Audouin, V. 1827. Description de l'Egypt ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypt pendant l'expéditions de l'armée française. In, Description de l'Egypte, Histoire Naturelle. Edn 2. Vol. 22 pp. 249–290. [274].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHP ♂, Suez.
  Paratype(s) MNHP ♀ (as allotype); MNHP 3♂ 6♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Banner, A.H. & Banner, D.M. 1973. The establishment of a neotype for Alpheus edwardsii (Audouin). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 67(88): 1141-1146 1 fig. [1141].
• Alpheus Audouini 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].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-Australian, Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks, dredged to 26 m.

History of changes

• Alpheus ehlersii de Man, J.G. 1909. Description of a new species of the genus Alpheus Fabr. from the Bay of Batavia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1909: 663-666 pl. 70 [663].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA (apparently lost, see 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 [132]), Edam Is., Bay of Batavia, Indonesia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Philippines, and east to Caroline, Marshall, Phoenix, Samoa, and Tonga Islands).

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, reef flat.

Extra Ecological Information

In dead coral heads.

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 [132] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus eulimene 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 [101].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA ♀, off north coast of Pulau Waigeo, Indonesia (Siboga Stn 154) [0°7.2'N 130°25.5'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Maldive Islands, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Mariana Islands).

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

In and under dead coral heads, in sponges, depths to 83 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 [105] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus eurydactylus de Man, J.G. 1920. Diagnoses of some new species of Penaeidae and Alpheidae with remarks on two known species of the genus Penaeopsis A. Milne Edwards from the Indian Archipelago. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 5(3): 103-109 [109].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, Java, Indonesia.

Introduction

This species was taken out of synonymy with Alpheus euphrosyne de Man, 1897 by Anker (2023), rendering A. euphrosyne as no longer occuring in Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also found in south-east Asia

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

General References

Anker, A. 2023. Revision of Alpheus euphrosyne De Man, 1897 and A. microrhynchus De Man, 1897, with description of three new species and taxonomic remarks on several other morphologically and ecologically similar snapping shrimps (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Alpheidae). Zootaxa 5282: 1-115 [24]

History of changes

• Alpheus facetus 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 [100].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA, off Djedan, Kepulauan Aru, Indonesia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, Caroline Islands).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal pools, most in dead coral heads in 6 m or less, to depths of 30 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 [62] (Australian records)

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. [190] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus frontalis 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. [356] [several early authors incorrectly attributed the original description of A. frontalis to Thomas Say].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Alpheus latifrons Milne Edwards, A. 1873. Description de quelques Crustacés nouveaux ou peu connus provenant du Musée de M.C. Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 1(4): 77-88 pls 12, 13 [263].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMH 5831 ♀ (MGH), Upolu, West Samoa, Pacific Ocean.
• Bataeus utricola Richters, F. 1880. Decapoda. In, Möbius, K.A. Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen, bearbeitet von K. Möbius, F. Richters und E. von Martens. Berlin. 137-178 pls 15-18 [164 pl. 17 figs 34, 35].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB (probable depository institution), Mauritius.

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 [99]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

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

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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

Lives in tubes in algae, to 130 m depth.

History of changes

• Alpheus georgei 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 [200 fig. 61].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 226-65 ♂, W of Cape Jaubert, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM ♀ (as allotype); ZMA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From sponge, to 126 m depth.

History of changes

• Alpheus gracilipes 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 [31].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Tahiti.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Ryukyu Islands, east to Hawai'i).

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

In heads of dead coral, intertidal pools, depths to 6 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 [143] (Australian records)

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. [190] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus gracilis 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 [272 pl. 3 figs 21, 22].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NHMW (probable depository institution), Red Sea.
• Alpheus gracilis alluaudi 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. [882].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mahé Is., Seychelles.
• Crangon gracilis simplex Banner, A.H. 1953. The Crangonidae or snapping shrimp of Hawaii. Pacific Science 7(1): 1-147 50 figs [75].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM, Waikiki Reef, Oahu, Hawai'i.
• Alpheus gracilis luciparensis 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 [337].

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 [60]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

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

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

History of changes

• Alpheus hailstonei 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. [879 pl. 74 fig. 18].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 12 specimens ♂ ♀, Maldive Ils: North Male Atoll, Mahlos Atoll, Hulule Male Atoll.
• Alpheus hailstonei laetabilis 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 [98].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA, Indonesia (3 Siboga stations).
• Alpheus hailstonei assimulans 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 [99].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA, Indonesia (8 Siboga stations).
• Crangon hailstonei paucispinata Banner, A.H. 1953. The Crangonidae or snapping shrimp of Hawaii. Pacific Science 7(1): 1-147 50 figs [51 fig. 16a-j].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 91602 ♀, off Kauai Is., Hawai'i (Albatross Stn 4128).

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 [38]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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, continental shelf, continental slope, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths from 25–536 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. [191] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus heronicus 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 [220 fig. 69].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P27235 ♀, Heron Island, Capricorn group, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P27236 4♀; AM P27214 2♀.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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, coral reef, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal pools.

History of changes

• Alpheus hutchingsae 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 [191].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P27252 ♀, Lizard Island, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P27253 ♂ (as allotype).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Found most commonly in interstices of dead coral, amongst encrusting sponges and algae, depths to 46 m.

History of changes

• Alpheus labis 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 [127 fig. 35].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P27234 ♂, Albany Passage area, Torres Straits, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, shallow subtidal.

History of changes

• Alpheus leptochirus 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. [914 pl. 87 fig. 54].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Maldive Islands.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (Maldive Islands, Seychelles, Réunion, questionably from Philippines and Hawai'i).

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

History of changes

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 [246]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

IMCRA

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

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

History of changes

• Alpheus edwardsii leviusculus 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 [543 pl. 34].

  Type data:

   Holotype (lost), Wake Island, N Pacific.
• Alpheus bouvieri bastardi Coutière, H. 1898. Note sur quelques formes nouvelles d'alphéidés voisines de A. Bouvieri A. Milne Edwards (Crustacea). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1898(5): 131-134 5 figs [133 fig. 1a].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, East Africa [Madagascar and Djibouti], and Panama.

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 [246]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Indonesia and Pacific islands at least as far east as Wake Island, but not Hawai'i).

IMCRA

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

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks and in or under dead coral heads, on sand or gravel substrates.

History of changes

• Alpheus lobidens 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].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH D5541 1 dry specimen, Japan.
• Alpheus crassimanus Heller, C. 1865. Crustaceen. In, Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte `Novara' um die Erdre, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zool. Theil. 2(3): 1–280, pls 1–25. [107 pl. 10 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Nicobar Islands.
• Alpheus lobidens polynesica Banner, A.H. & Banner, D.M. 1975. Contributions to the knowledge of the alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean, Part XVII: additional notes on the Hawaiian alpheids: new species, subspecies, and some nomenclatorial changes. Pacific Science 28(4): 423-437, figs 1-5 [429].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [34]
• 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. [192] (Alphaeus inopinatus Holthuis & Gottlieb, and A. lobidens polynesica Banner & Banner removed from synonymy of this species on the advice of A. Anker)
• 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 [385]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Red Sea to Hawai'i), eastern and central Mediterranean.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, burrower, intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Commonly intertidal inburrows under rocks, on sand to sandy mud, occasionally in bases of dead coral heads, to 26 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 [252] (Australian distribution, remarks on biology)

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. [192] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus lottini Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1829. Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux, avec un text descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traitès de zoologie. Paris : J.B. Baillière 450 plates in 45 livraisons. Crustacea: 36 pls, 48 pp. [38 pl. 3 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP CA249, New Ireland, Bismark Archipelago.

  Type locality references:

  Spamer, E.E. & Bogan, A.E. 1994. Type specimens of Crustacea surviving in the Guerin-Meneville collection, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 145: 35-46.
• Cancer (Astacus) sublucanus Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [94] [name suppressed under the plenary powers, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1985. Opinion 1367. Alpheus lottini Guerin, 1829 (Crustacea, Decapoda): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42(4): 361–364 (361)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Juddah, Saudi Arabia.

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1985. Opinion 1367. Alpheus lottini Guerin, 1829 (Crustacea, Decapoda): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42(4): 361-364.
• Alpheus ventrosus 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. [352].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Mauritius.
• Alpheus laevis 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 CA247, Hawai'ian Islands (as Sandwich Islands).

  Type locality references:

  Spamer, E.E. & Bogan, A.E. 1992. General Invertebrates Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Part 1: Guide to the General Invertebrates Collection. Part 2: Annotated Catalogue of recent type specimens: Protozoa, Proifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Rotifera, Nemata, Nematomorpha, Annelida, Arthropoda (Merostomata, Pycnogonida, and Crustacea) Brachiopoda and Echinodermata. Tryonia No. 26: 1-305.
• Crangon latipes Banner, A.H. 1953. The Crangonidae or snapping shrimp of Hawaii. Pacific Science 7(1): 1-147 50 figs [82 fig. 27].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM, off Waikiki Reef, Oahu, Hawai'i.
• Alpheus thetis White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [75] [nom. nud.].
• Alpheus rouxii Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1857. Animaux articulés à pieds articulés. Crustacés. In: de la Sagra, R., Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'Île de Cuba. pp. 1-87, Plates 1-3. [50].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [35]
• 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 [385]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Philippines and east to Hawai'i, the Galapagos Islands, and American mainland from the Gulf of California to Colombia).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Only found associated with living pocilloporid corals, depths to 50 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. [193] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus maindroni Coutière, H. 1898. Note sur quelques formes nouvelles d'alphéidés voisines de A. Bouvieri A. Milne Edwards (Crustacea). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1898(5): 131-134 5 figs [133 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Masqat [Muscat], Gulf of Oman and Djibouti, Gulf of Aden.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Madagascar to Philippines and east to Caroline and Marshall Islands).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From dead coral heads, intertidal pools, reef flat.

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 [203] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Astacus malabaricus Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [415].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Malabar Coast, southwestern India.
• Alpheus malabaricus trefzae 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 [207 fig. 64].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P30805 ♀, Brammo Bay, Dunk Island, N QLD.
• Alpheus dolichodactylus Ortmann, A.E. 1890. Die Unterordnung Natantia Boas: Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z.Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen, I. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 5: 437-542 pls 36, 37 [473 pl. 36 fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MS, Tokyo Wan, Japan.
• Alpheus dolichodactylus leptopus 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 [289].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA, area of Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia (4 different Siboga Stns).
• Alpheus malabaricus mackayi Banner, A.H. 1959. Contributions to the knowledge of the alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Part IV. Various small collections from the central Pacific area, including supplementary notes on alpheids from Hawaii. Pacific Science 13(2): 130-155 13 figs [149 fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM, Wailupe fish pond, Oahu, Hawai'i.
• Alpheus malabaricus songkla Banner, A.H. & Banner, D.M. 1966. The Alpheidae shrimp of Thailand. Siam Society Monographs 3: i-v 1-168 pp. 62 figs [147 fig. 56].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Lake Songkla, Songkla, Thailand.
• Alpheus macrodactylus Ortmann, A.E. 1890. Die Unterordnung Natantia Boas: Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z.Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen, I. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 5: 437-542 pls 36, 37 [473 pl. 36 fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype MS, Sydney, NSW.
• Alpheus forceps White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) viii 141 pp. [75] [nomen nudum].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [39]
• 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 [386]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific (East Africa to Mexico).

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, burrower, continental shelf, low intertidal, muddy sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks on sandy-mud substrate, to at least 289 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 [207] (Australian record as subspecies A. malabaricus trefzae)

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. [193] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Bataeus malleodigitus 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 [565 pl. 101 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Levuka, Fiji Islands.
• Alpheus phyrgianus 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. [886 pl. 77 fig. 25].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Maldive Islands (two localities), Madagascar (one locality).
• Alpheus persicus Nobili, G. 1905. Quatre Décopodes nouveaux du golfe Persique (récoltes de MM. J. Bonnier et Ch. Pérez. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 11: 238-239 [238].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (probable depository institution), Persian Gulf.
• Alpheus malleodigitus gracilicarpus 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 [99].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA ♂ ♀, Indonesia and Philippines region: South of Saleyer; Sulu archipelago; North-Ubian; NE Timor.
• Alpheus danae 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. [887 pl. 77 fig. 26].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Maldive Islands.
• Alpheus obesomanus japonicus Ortmann, A.E. 1890. Die Unterordnung Natantia Boas: Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z.Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen, I. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 5: 437-542 pls 36, 37 [478].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [40]
• 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 [386]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

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

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

On and in corals, usually in surf zone.

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 [92] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus mangalis Anker, A. 2023. Revision of Alpheus euphrosyne De Man, 1897 and A. microrhynchus De Man, 1897, with description of three new species and taxonomic remarks on several other morphologically and ecologically similar snapping shrimps (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Alpheidae). Zootaxa 5282: 1-115 [67].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZRC 2014.0667 ♂ (26 Sep 2011, leg. B.Y. Lee & B.W. Lee.), Kampung Melayu, Pulau Ubin, Singapore.
  Paratype(s) ZRC 2014.0683 1♀ (Same collection data as Holotype.), same as Holotype; ZRC 2014.0685 3♀, 1 juv. ♂ (24 Oct 2012, leg. H.H. Ng & M.R. bin Duria.), mouth of Sungei Teris, OBS Camp 2, Pulau Ubin, Singapore; OUMNH ZC. 2019.06.60 5♂, 3♀ (21 Aug 2001, leg. K.L. Yeo.), Chek Jawa. Pulau Ubin, Singapore; ZRC 2014.0666 1♂, 1♀ (21 Aug 2001, leg. K.L. Yeo.), Chek Jawa. Pulau Ubin, Singapore; MNHNP IU-2018-5732 5♂, 5♀ (6 Mar 2012, leg. J.C. Mendoza, Y.L. Lee & R. Tan.), between OBS camps 1 and 2, Pulau Ubin, Singapore; ZRC 2014.0684 1♂, 1♀ (6 Mar 2012, leg. J.C. Mendoza, Y.L. Lee & R. Tan.), between OBS camps 1 and 2, Pulau Ubin, Singapore; MNHNP IU-2018-5750 2♂ (6 Mar 2012, leg. D.L. Rahayu & K.S. Tan.), W of Celestial Resort, Pulau Ubin, Singapore; OUMNH ZC.2019.06.61 1♂, 1♀ (26 Oct 2012, leg. K.S. Koh et al.), mouth of Sungei Besar, Singapore; MNHNP IU-2018-5743 1♂ (26 Oct 2012, leg. K.S. Koh et al.), mouth of Sungei Besar, Singapore; MNHNP IU-2018-5592 1♂ (26 Oct 2012, leg. K.S. Koh et al.), mouth of Sungei Besar, Singapore; ZRC 2014.0678 >40 specimens of both sexes (12 Mar 2004, leg. Y.L. Teo & N. Sivasothi.), Sungei Buloh, Singapore; MNHNP IU-2018-5600 2♂, 2♀ (12 Mar 2004, leg. Y.L. Teo & N. Sivasothi.), Sungei Buloh, Singapore; MNHNP IU-2018-5749 1♂ (28 Oct 2012, leg. A. Anker, B.Y. Lee & D. Uyeno.), Lim Chu Kang, Singapore.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IMCRA

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

History of changes

• Alpheus mazatlanticus Wicksten, M.K. 1983. Shallow water caridean shrimps of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Allan Hancock Foundation Monograph 13: 1-59, figs 1-8 [46 figs 7, 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AHF, Laguna del Caimanero, Sinaloa, Mexico.

  Secondary source:

   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 [386].

History of changes

• Betaeus microstylus 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 [566].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Albany Island, Cape York, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Red Sea to Philippines, and east to Caroline and Mariana Islands, and Samoa).

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, low intertidal, reef flat, shallow subtidal.

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 [92] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus rapax miersi Coutière, H. 1898. Note sur quelques formes nouvelles d'alphéidés voisines de A. Bouvieri A. M.-Edwards [Crust.]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1898(7): 166-168 3 figs [166 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3 specimens (specimens identified as A. gracilipes by Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [287]), Port Molle, N QLD; Ceylon; Japan.
• ?Alpheus gracilipes serratus Coutière, H. 1898. Note sur quelques alphéidés nouveaux de la collection du British Museum (Crust). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1898: 166-168 [167] [Courtière erroneously credited this name to Miers who apparently did not publish it formally (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. [194])].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH, Flinders Is., N QLD.

  Secondary source:

   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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [41]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Indonesia, Japan, Philippines).

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal.

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 [168] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus moretensis 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 [177 fig. 54].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P30802 ♂, Moreton Bay, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sand bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From 15 m depth.

History of changes

• Alpheus novaezealandiae Miers, E.F. 1876. Descriptions of some new species of Crustacea, chiefly from New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17: 218-229 [224] [as Alpheus novae-zealandiae].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, New Zealand.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks, from cavities in bases of clumps of the tunicate Pyura stolonifera, depths to 26 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 [145] (extensive Australian distributional records)

Yaldwyn, J. 1956. A redescription of the type material of Alpheus novae-zealandiae Miers, 1876 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 9: 805-811, figs 1-7

History of changes

• Alpheus obesomanus 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 [21].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANSP, Fiji Archipelago.
• Alpheus lutini 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. [885 pl. 76 fig. 24].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP (probable depository institution), Maldive Ils, Samoan Ils, and 'l'ile Tague'.

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 [89]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

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

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

In pairs in branching galleries under coralline encrusting algae on heads of dead or living coral, usually in areas of wave wash.

History of changes

• Alpheus ovaliceps 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. [888 pl. 77 fig. 27].

  Type data:

   Holotype CUMZ ♂ (probable depository institution), Minikoi Atoll, Laccadive Ils.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Philippines, and east to Society Islands).

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, reef flat, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

In dead coral heads, depths to 5 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 [98] (Australian record)

History of changes

• Alpheus pachychirus 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:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Ryukyu Ils (as Loo Choo).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

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

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, reef flat, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Lives in algal tubes, to depths of 36 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 [102] (Australian distribution)

History of changes

• Alpheus pacificus 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 [21].

  Type data:

   Neotype USNM, Hawai'i.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Banner, A.H. 1953. The Crangonidae or snapping shrimp of Hawaii. Pacific Science 7(1): 1-147 50 figs [138].
• Alpheus gracilidigitus Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [287].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Totoya, Fiji, and Hawai'i.

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 [217]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Clipperton Is, in the east Pacific).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, reef flat, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal reef pools, from dead coral, and burrowing in sand under rocks and coral heads, depths to 20 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. [196] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus papillosus 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 [260 fig. 80].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P27233 ♂, Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD (published locality Sandgate, Moreton Bay, QLD).
  Paratype(s) AM P27232 ♀ (as allotype); 108 specimens (AM P27212–13, AM P27215–19, AM P27223–25, AM P27227–31, AM P27237–43, AM P40478–81, AM P27262, AM P27875, AM P836, AM P5116, AM P7234, AM P8255, AM P8695, AM P9076, AM P10770, AM P11416, AM P11440, AM P11451, AM P13563, AM P13567, WAM 34–65, WAM 49–65, WAM 205–65, WAM 239–65, WAM 334–79, WAM 335–79, QM W835, QM W838, QM W1052, QM W9853, QM W9854, QM W9855, QM W9856).

  Type locality references:

  Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1993. Catalogue of Crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1-134.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Commonly under rocks intertidally, dredged to depth of 19 m.

History of changes

• Alpheus paracrinitus Miers, E.J. 1881. On a collection of Crustacea made by Baron Hermann Maltzam (sic, Maltzan) at Goree Island, Senegambia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8: 204-220, 259-281, 364-368 pls 13-16 [365 pl. 16 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂, Goree Island, Senegal.
• Alpheus paracrinitus bengalensis 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. [901 pl. 87 fig. 37].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 1♂ 1♀, Minikoi, Laccadive Ils.
• Crangon togatus Armstrong, J.C. 1940. New species of Caridea from the Bermudas. American Museum Novitates 1096: 1-10 4 figs [2 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 8195 ♀, Piedra Prieta Reef, Barahona, Dominican Republic.
  Paratype(s) AMNH 8187 ♀; AMNH 8188 3♀.

  Secondary source:

   Feinberg, H.S. 1971. A Catalogue of Type Specimens in the Department of Living Invertebrates, The American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. Phylum Arthropoda: Class Crustacea Part One: Order Decapoda. New York : The American Museum of Natural History.
• Alpheus ascensionis Ortmann, A.E. 1893. Decapoden und Schizopoden der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 2(Gb): 1-120 pls 1-10 [45].

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 [129]
• 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 [387]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Circumtropical.

IMCRA

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

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks, in dead coral heads, and in coralline algae, depths to 18 m.

General References

Banner, A.H. & Banner, D.M. 1983. An annotated checklist of the alpheid shrimp from the western Indian Ocean. Travaux et Documents de l'ORSTOM, Paris 158: 1-164 [55] (previous records from Australia of Alpheus mitis Dana, 1852, by Banner & Banner (1982: 134) are reassigned to A. paracrinitus)

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. [196] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is a complex of several species)

History of changes

• Alpheus paralcyone 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. [895 pl. 80, 81 fig. 34].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 11 specimens ♂ ♀, Maldive and Laccadive Ils: South Nilandu Atoll, Miladumadulu Atoll, North Male Atoll, Mahlos Atoll.
• Crangon laysani Edmondson, C.H. 1925. Crustacea. In Marine Zoology of Tropical Central Pacific (Tanager Expedition, Publication I). Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 27: 3-62 figs 1-8 pls 1-4 [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 1803 ♀, Laysan Island, Hawai'i.
• Alpheus providencei Coutière, 1908.

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 [113]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

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

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in dead coral heads, depths to 166 m.

History of changes

• Alpheus parasocialis 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 [72 fig. 17].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 288-65 ♀, Palm Beach, Rockingham, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM ♂ (as allotype), Palm Beach, Rockingham, WA; WAM 90 specimens; NMV J675, Phillip Island, off Cowes, VIC; AM P27249–51, 5679, 2329, 12427, 13578, 27256-61, 27936 5 specimens; BPBM 4 specimens; TMH G1482, 1509, 1510, 1538 5 specimens; QVM 1971-10-6 1 specimen.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), Southern Province (8)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths to 728 m.

History of changes

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 [276]

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

History of changes

• Alpheus pareuchirus imitatrix 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 [106].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA, Indonesia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia.

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, continental shelf, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From growth on pearl oyster shell, Australian material dredged to 22 m, but found as deep as 141 m in Indonesia.

History of changes

• Alpheus pareuchirus 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. [906 pl. 84].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 4 specimens ♂ ♀, North Male Atoll, Maldive Ils.
• Alpheus pareuchirus leucothea 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 [420 fig. 102].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA, Indonesia and Sulu Archipelago (six different Siboga Stns).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [47]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Madagascar to Philippines and east to Caroline Islands).

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 reef pools, dredged to 15 m depth.

History of changes

• Alpheus parvirostris 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].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Straits of Balabac, N of Borneo.
• Alpheus lineifer Miers, E.J. 1875. On some new or undescribed species of Crustacea from the Samoa Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16: 341-344 [343].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Samoa Island.
• Alpheus braschi Boone, L. 1935. Crustacea and Echinodermata. Scientific results of the world cruise of the yacht Alva, 1931, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum 6: 1-263, 96 pls, 13 text-figs [131 pl. 34].

  Type data:

   Holotype VMM ♀ adult, Pago Pago, Samoa.
• Alpheus euchiroides Nobili, G. 1906. Diagnoses préliminaires de Crustacés Décapodes et Isopodes nouveaux recueillis par M. le Dr. G. Seurat aux îles Touamotou. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 12(5): 256-270 [257].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Marutea, Tuamotu Archipelago.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [47]
• 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 [388]
• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56 [45 (Table 1), 53]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan and east to Tuamotu Archipelago).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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, reef flat, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

One of the most common Alpheus species in dead coral, also occassionally in live coral, and in sponges, intertidal pools to depths of 32 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 [185] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus polyxo 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 [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA ♂, Banda Anchorage, Moluccas, Indonesia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Madagascar, Indonesia, Philippines).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

In dead coral in shallow water, dredged to 131 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 [274] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus pubescens 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 [109].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA ♂ ♀, Indonesia: Postillon Islands; Samau Is., Timor; Borneo Bank; west-coast of Salawatti; Aru Ils.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Straits, and Indonesia and Vietnam.

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, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal pools, from dead corals in waters to 30 m depth, dredged from various bottom types.

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 [167] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus rapacida 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 [105].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA ♂ ♀, Indonesia: Ruma Kuda Bay, Roma Island; Saleh Bay.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Indonesia, Vietnam, and east to Hawai'i), Mediterranean coast of Israel.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, rock reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Burrows into sandy to muddy bottoms, forms commensal relationship with gobiid fishes, depths to 56 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 [160] (Australian records)

History of changes

• Alpheus rapax Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [405].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH (probably not extant), East Indies.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Zimsen, E. 1964. Crustacea. pp. 643–656 in, The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland