Species Coralliocaris superba (Dana, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oedipus superbus 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 [25].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (lost), Tongatabu Island, Tonga.
• Oedipus dentirostris Paulson, O.M. 1875. Researches on the Crustacea of the Red Sea, with Remarks Concerning the Crustacea of Other Seas. Part 1. Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). Kiev : publisher unknown Vol. 14 144 pp., 21 pls. [in Russian] [112].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [346]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tasman Sea. Presence in Christmas Island following Morgan (2001)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with the corals of the genus Acropora.

 

General References

Bruce, A.J. 1991. Shallow-water Palaemonoid shrimps from New Caledonia (Crustacea: Decapoda). Le benthos des fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle–Calédonie. Études et Théses, ORSTOM, Paris. 221-279 figs 1-31 pp. [264]

 

History of changes

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