Species Alpheus miersi Coutière, 1898

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

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
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