Species Palaemon serrifer (Stimpson, 1860)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leander serrifer Stimpson, W. 1860. Crustacea Macrura. Pars VIII of Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 12: 22-47 [41].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (probably lost), Hong Kong and O Shima [Ryukyu Islands, Japan].
• Leander serrifer longidactylus Yu, S.C. 1930. Note sur les crevettes chinoises appartenant au genre Leander Desm. avec description de nouvelles espèces. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 55: 553-573 figs 1-4 [555, 570 fig. 4B'C'].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (museum not determined), 'Yangmotoa' Peitaiho, 'Tangkou' and Yent'ai (Chefoo), China.

  Type locality references:

  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 [41].
• Leander fagei Yu, S.C. 1930. Note sur les crevettes chinoises appartenant au genre Leander Desm. avec description de nouvelles espèces. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 55: 553-573 figs 1-4 [555, 561].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (museum not determined), Shandong Peninsula, China.

 

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 [41]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, inshore, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Among rocks and fouling in lower estuarine and seagrass areas, and sheltered rocky shores.

 

General References

Davie, P. 1998. Wild Guide to Moreton Bay. Wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast – Noosa to the Tweed. Brisbane : Queensland Museum xxiv 408 pp. [96] (colour picture)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jul-2013		22-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)