Genus Hepomadus Spence Bate, 1881

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hepomadus Spence Bate, C. 1881. On the Penaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 8: 169-196 pls 11-12 [171, 189] [name placed on Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1969); gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Hepomadus glacialis Fowler, 1912 by subsequent designation, see Fowler, H.W. 1912. The Crustacea of New Jersey. Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum 1911: 29-650, pls 1-150.

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1969. Opinion 864. Penaeid generic names (Crustacea, Decapoda): addition of twenty-eight to the Official List. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 25: 138-147 [139].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic, Indian, western and central Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

General References

Pérez Farfante, I. & Kensley, B. 1997. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 175: 1-233 [46-48] (diagnosis and species distributions)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	31-Jul-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
24-Apr-2012		24-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)