Species Cuapetes elegans (Paul'son, 1875)
- Anchistia elegans Paul'son, O.M. 1875. Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea with Notes regarding other Seas. Part I. Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). Jerusalem : The Israel Program for Scientific Translations 164 pp. 21 pls. [reissued and translated by F.D. Por, 1961] [113 pl. 17 fig. 1].
Type data:
Status unknown, Red Sea. - Periclimenes (Falciger) dubius Borradaile, L.A. 1915. Notes on Carides. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15: 205-213 [211].
Type data:
Syntype(s) UMZC AR3.1920, Minicoy, Laccadive Islands.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Chace, F.A., Jr & Bruce, A.J. 1993. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 543: 1-152 [110]
Generic Combinations
- Kemponia elegans (Paul'son, 1875). —
Bruce, A.J. 2004. A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 582: 1-26
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-West Central Pacific Oceans (Red Sea and western Indian Ocean to Hong Kong, Philippines and Marshall Islands).
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, low intertidal, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Predatory, found under dead coral bases, and on coral sand and shell substrates, intertidal pools to 53 m depth.
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) |