Species Alpheus parvirostris Dana, 1852
- Alpheus parvirostris Dana, J.D. 1852. Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6: 10-28 [22].
Type data:
Status unknown, (presumed lost), Straits of Balabac, N of Borneo. - Alpheus lineifer Miers, E.J. 1875. On some new or undescribed species of Crustacea from the Samoa Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16: 341-344 [343].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH, Samoa Island. - Alpheus braschi Boone, L. 1935. Crustacea and Echinodermata. Scientific results of the world cruise of the yacht Alva, 1931, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum 6: 1-263, 96 pls, 13 text-figs [131 pl. 34].
Type data:
Holotype VMM ♀ adult, Pago Pago, Samoa. - Alpheus euchiroides Nobili, G. 1906. Diagnoses préliminaires de Crustacés Décapodes et Isopodes nouveaux recueillis par M. le Dr. G. Seurat aux îles Touamotou. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 12(5): 256-270 [257].
Type data:
Status unknown, Marutea, Tuamotu Archipelago.
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 [47]
- 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 [388]
- Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56 [45 (Table 1), 53]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan and east to Tuamotu Archipelago).
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, reef flat, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
One of the most common Alpheus species in dead coral, also occassionally in live coral, and in sponges, intertidal pools to depths of 32 m.
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 [185] (Australian records)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 22-Jul-2013 | 22-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |