Species Alpheus papillosus Banner & Banner, 1982

Museums

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• Alpheus papillosus 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 [260 fig. 80].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P27233 ♂, Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD (published locality Sandgate, Moreton Bay, QLD).
  Paratype(s) AM P27232 ♀ (as allotype); 108 specimens (AM P27212–13, AM P27215–19, AM P27223–25, AM P27227–31, AM P27237–43, AM P40478–81, AM P27262, AM P27875, AM P836, AM P5116, AM P7234, AM P8255, AM P8695, AM P9076, AM P10770, AM P11416, AM P11440, AM P11451, AM P13563, AM P13567, WAM 34–65, WAM 49–65, WAM 205–65, WAM 239–65, WAM 334–79, WAM 335–79, QM W835, QM W838, QM W1052, QM W9853, QM W9854, QM W9855, QM W9856).

  Type locality references:

  Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1993. Catalogue of Crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1-134.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Commonly under rocks intertidally, dredged to depth of 19 m.

 

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)