Species Alpheus paracrinitus Miers, 1881

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• Alpheus paracrinitus Miers, E.J. 1881. On a collection of Crustacea made by Baron Hermann Maltzam (sic, Maltzan) at Goree Island, Senegambia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8: 204-220, 259-281, 364-368 pls 13-16 [365 pl. 16 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂, Goree Island, Senegal.
• Alpheus paracrinitus bengalensis 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. [901 pl. 87 fig. 37].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 1♂ 1♀, Minikoi, Laccadive Ils.
• Crangon togatus Armstrong, J.C. 1940. New species of Caridea from the Bermudas. American Museum Novitates 1096: 1-10 4 figs [2 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 8195 ♀, Piedra Prieta Reef, Barahona, Dominican Republic.
  Paratype(s) AMNH 8187 ♀; AMNH 8188 3♀.

  Secondary source:

   Feinberg, H.S. 1971. A Catalogue of Type Specimens in the Department of Living Invertebrates, The American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. Phylum Arthropoda: Class Crustacea Part One: Order Decapoda. New York : The American Museum of Natural History.
• Alpheus ascensionis Ortmann, A.E. 1893. Decapoden und Schizopoden der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 2(Gb): 1-120 pls 1-10 [45].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [129]
• 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 [387]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Circumtropical.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks, in dead coral heads, and in coralline algae, depths to 18 m.

 

General References

Banner, A.H. & Banner, D.M. 1983. An annotated checklist of the alpheid shrimp from the western Indian Ocean. Travaux et Documents de l'ORSTOM, Paris 158: 1-164 [55] (previous records from Australia of Alpheus mitis Dana, 1852, by Banner & Banner (1982: 134) are reassigned to A. paracrinitus)

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. [196] (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)