Species Alpheus gracilis Heller, 1862

Museums

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• 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).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jul-2013		02-Jul-2014	MODIFIED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)