Species Synalpheus coutierei Banner, 1953
- Synalpheus coutierei Banner, A.H. 1953. The Crangonidae or snapping shrimp of Hawaii. Pacific Science 7(1): 1-147 50 figs [36] [Synalpheus coutierei was proposed as a new name for material mis-identified as S. biunguiculatus Stimpson, 1860 by Coutière, H. 1898. Note sur Synalpheus biunguiculatus Stimpson? de Man [Crust]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1898(11): 232–233, figs 1–4].
Type data:
Syntype(s) USNM (probable depository institution), W side of Hanauma Bay, Oahu; MNHP numerous specimens (probable depository institution (material identified as S. biunguiculatus by Coutière, 1898)), Ambon; Pulau Damar-Besar; Zanzibar; Bahia de Fernao Veloso, Mozambique; D'Arros Is., Amirante Ils; El Suweis, Egypt; Rameswaran, southern India; Holothuria Reefs, Timor Sea; Arafura Sea; and Djibouti.Secondary source:
Coutière, H. 1898. Note sur Synalpheus biunguiculatus Stimpson? de Man [Crust]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1898(11): 232-233, figs 1-4.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
East Indo-Pacific Oceans (Suez Canal and East Africa to Philippines and many western Pacific Islands), east Pacific (Clipperton Island).
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
Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Found living in dead coral heads, or sponges, dredged to 77 m.
General References
Banner, D.M. & Banner, A.H. 1975. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Part 2: The genus Synalpheus. Records of the Australian Museum 29(12): 267-389 figs 1-29, appendix [343]
Chace, F.A., Jr 1988. The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 5: Family Alpheidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 466: 1-99 [77] (Chace excludes S. biunguiculatus var. exilipes Coutière, 1905, from the synonymy of Banner & Banner (1975: 344) on the grounds that the identification still requires confirmation. If it is truly conspecific, then S. exilipes Coutière will be the senior synonym)
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) |