Species Alpheus malleodigitus (Spence Bate, 1888)
- 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
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