Genus Pasiphaea Savigny, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pasiphaea Savigny, J.C. de 1816. Mémoires sur les animaux sans vertèbres. Bd.1. Description et classification des animaux invertébrés et articulés. Paris : G. Dufour 118 pp. [50] [name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1957. Opinion 470. Additions to the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology of the names of one hundred and two genera of Caridea (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda) and use of the Plenary Powers for various purposes in connection therewith. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 16: 129–202; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Alpheus sivado Risso, 1816 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1957. Opinion 470. Additions to the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology of the names of one hundred and two genera of Caridea (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda) and use of the Plenary Powers for various purposes in connection therewith. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 16: 129-202.
• Phye Wood-Mason, J. 1892. Illustrations of the Zoology of the Royal Indian Marine Surveying Steamer "Investigator". Crustacea, Pt 1, pls 1–5. [pl. 3 fig. 5] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Parapasiphae alcocki Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp. [27]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic, Indo Pacific and Southern Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

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)