Species Alpheus collumianus Stimpson, 1860
- Alpheus collumianus 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 [30].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (presumably lost), Bonin Ils, NW Pacific. - Alpheus malhaensis Coutière, H. 1908. Sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'Alpheidae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 11(5): 1-26 [205(15)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP ♂ ♀, Amirante Ils, Seychelles; and Saya de Malha Bank. - Alpheus collumianus inermis Banner, A.H. 1956. Contributions to the knowledge of the Alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Part I. Collections from the Mariana Archipelago. Pacific Science 10(3): 318-378 23 figs [342 fig. 12].
Type data:
Holotype USNM ♂, off Saipan, Mariana Ils.
Paratype(s) USNM. - Alpheus collumianus medius Banner, A.H. 1956. Contributions to the knowledge of the Alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Part I. Collections from the Mariana Archipelago. Pacific Science 10(3): 318-378 23 figs [340 fig. 11].
Type data:
Holotype USNM, Hawai'i.
Paratype(s) ♂. - Alpheus collumianus probabilis Banner, A.H. 1956. Contributions to the knowledge of the Alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Part I. Collections from the Mariana Archipelago. Pacific Science 10(3): 318-378 23 figs [338].
Type data:
Holotype USNM ♀, off north-west coast of Saipan, Mariana Ils.
Paratype(s) USNM. - Alpheus seurati Coutière, H. 1905. Marine Crustaceans. XV. Les Alpheidae. (pp. 852-921, pls. LXX-LXXXVII, figs 127-139) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part IV) pp. 807–921, pls. LXVII-LXXXVII. [881].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [45]
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (Madagascar to Japan and east to Hawai'i and Society Islands).
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, low intertidal, reef flat, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Commonly in dead coral heads, dredged to depths of 76 m.
General References
Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [187] (A. Anker (pers. comm.) believes this taxon is probably a complex of several species)
History of changes
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