Species Alpheus novaezealandiae Miers, 1876
New Zealand Snapping-prawn
- Alpheus novaezealandiae Miers, E.F. 1876. Descriptions of some new species of Crustacea, chiefly from New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17: 218-229 [224] [as Alpheus novae-zealandiae].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH, New Zealand.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
New Zealand.
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, intertidal, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Under rocks, from cavities in bases of clumps of the tunicate Pyura stolonifera, depths to 26 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 [145] (extensive Australian distributional records)
Yaldwyn, J. 1956. A redescription of the type material of Alpheus novae-zealandiae Miers, 1876 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 9: 805-811, figs 1-7
History of changes
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| 22-Jul-2013 | 22-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |