Species Synalpheus fossor (Paul'son, 1875)
- Alpheus fossor Paul'son, O.M. 1875. Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea with Notes regarding other Seas. Part I. Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). Jerusalem : The Israel Program for Scientific Translations 164 pp. 21 pls. [reissued and translated by F.D. Por, 1961] [103 pl. 13 fig. 5].
Type data:
Status unknown, Saya de Malha Bank, Seychelles-Mauritius Ridge, Indian Ocean. - Synalpheus bakeri Coutière, H. 1908. Sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'Alpheidae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 11(5): 1-26 [199].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP ♂ ♀, south of Adelaide, SA. - Synalpheus bakeri stormi de Man, J.G. 1911. Family Penaeidae. The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(a): 1-131 [253 fig. 40].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMA, Indonesia: Balikpapan, Makassar Strait coast of Borneo, and Atjeh, Sumatra. - Synalpheus fossor propinqua de Man, J.G. 1909. Diagnoses of new species of macrurous decapod Crustacea from the "Siboga Expedition". Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging 2 11(2): 99-125 [121].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMA numerous specimens, Philippines: Pearl Bank, Sulu Archipelago; Indonesia: between Misool and New Guinea; off Timor; and Lesser Sunda Ils. - Synalpheus trionyx Coutière, 1908.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [78]
- De Grave, S. & Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The recent species of the Dendrobrachiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 85(9): 195-589, figs 1-59 [406]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Red Sea and Madagascar to Philippines).
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, coral reef, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Live in dead coral or sponges, to about 50 m depth.
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 [335]
History of changes
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