Species Alpheus lottini Guérin-Méneville, 1829

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• 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).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

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