Species Alpheus malabaricus (Fabricius, 1775)
- 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.
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
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