Alpheus (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Alpheus"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Alpheus digitalis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Caridea
familia = Alpheidae
genus = "Alpheus"
genus_authority = Fabricius, 1798
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "See text"

"Alpheus" Fabricius 1798 is a genus of snapping shrimp of the family Alpheidae. This genus contains in excess of 250 species [cite journal |quotes=no |author=W. Kim and L. G. Abele |title=The snapping shrimp genus "Alpheus" from the eastern Pacific (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae) |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology |volume=454 |year=1988 |pages=1–119 ] , making this the most species-rich genus of shrimp [cite journal |quotes=no |author=N. Knowlton and D. K. Mills |title=The systematic importance of color and color pattern: evidences for complexes of sibling species of snapping shrimp (Caridea: Alpheidae: "Alpheus") from the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Panama |journal=Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History |volume=18 |year=1992 |pages=1–5] . Like other snapping shrimp, the claws of "Alpheus" are asymmetrical, with one of the claws enlarged for making a popping noise. [ Labrador Park [http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/labrador/blog/crustacea.html] ]

pecies

*"Alpheus aculeipes" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus acutocarinus" de Man, 1909
*"Alpheus acutofemoratus" Dana, 1852
*"Alpheus agrogon" Ramos, 1997
*"Alpheus aequus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus africanus" Balss, 1916
*"Alpheus albatrossae" (Banner, 1953)
*"Alpheus alcyone" de Man, 1902
*"Alpheus amblyonyx" Chace, 1972
*"Alpheus amirantei" Coutière, 1908
*"Alpheus angulosus" McClure, 2002
*"Alpheus antepaenultimus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus architectus" de Man, 1897
*"Alpheus arenensis" (Chace, 1937)
*"Alpheus arethusa" de Man, 1909
*"Alpheus armatus" Rathbun, 1901
*"Alpheus armillatus" H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
*"Alpheus astrinx" Banner & Banner, 1982 — candy-stripe pistol prawn
*"Alpheus audouini" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus australiensis" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus australosulcatus" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus avarus" Fabricius, 1798
*"Alpheus bahamensis" Rankin, 1898
*"Alpheus balaenodigitus" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus bannerorum" Bruce, 1987
*"Alpheus barbara" Lockington, 1878
*"Alpheus barbatus"Coutière, 1899
*"Alpheus beanii" Verrill, 1922
*"Alpheus belli" Coutière, 1898
*"Alpheus bellimanus" Lockington, 1877
*"Alpheus bellulus" Miya & Miyake — tiger pistol shrimp
*"Alpheus bicostatus" de Man, 1908
*"Alpheus bidens" (Olivier, 1811) — mottled snapping prawn
*"Alpheus bisincisus" de Haan, 1844 — flathead snapping shrimp "or" red snapping shrimp
*"Alpheus blachei" Crosnier & Forest, 1965
*"Alpheus bouvieri" A. Milne-Edwards, 1878
*"Alpheus brachymerus" (Banner, 1953)
*"Alpheus brevicristatus" de Haan, 1844
*"Alpheus brevipes" Stimpson, 1860
*"Alpheus brevirostris" (Olivier, 1811)
*"Alpheus brucei" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus bucephalus" Coutière, 1904
*"Alpheus bunburius" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus californiensis" Holmes, 1900
*"Alpheus candei" Guérin-Méneville, 1855
*"Alpheus chacei" Carvacho, 1979
*"Alpheus chilensis" Coutière, 1902
*"Alpheus chiragricus" H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
*"Alpheus christofferseni" Anker, Hurt & Knowlton, 2007
*"Alpheus clamator" Lockington, 1877
*"Alpheus clypeatus" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus coetivensis" Coutière, 1908
*"Alpheus collumianus" Stimpson, 1861
*"Alpheus columbiensis" Wicksten, 1988
*"Alpheus confusus" Carvacho, 1989
*"Alpheus cristatus" Coutière, 1879
*"Alpheus cristulifrons" Rathbun, 1900
*"Alpheus crockeri" (Armstrong, 1941)
*"Alpheus cryptodentatus" Christoffersen & Ramos, 1988
*"Alpheus cylindricus" Kingsley, 1878
*"Alpheus deuteropus" Hilgendorf, 1878
*"Alpheus diadema" Dana, 1852
*"Alpheus digitalis" de Haan, 1844
*"Alpheus dispar" Randall, 1840
*"Alpheus dissodontonotus" Stebbing, 1915
*"Alpheus distinctus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus distinguendus" de Man, 1909
*"Alpheus djeddensis" Coutière, 1897
*"Alpheus djiboutensis" de Man, 1909
*"Alpheus dolerus" Banner, 1956
*"Alpheus edamensis" de Man, 1888
*"Alpheus edwardsi" (Audouin, 1827)
*"Alpheus ehlersii" de Man, 1909
*"Alpheus estuariensis" Christoffersen, 1984
*"Alpheus eulimene" de Man, 1909
*"Alpheus euphrosyne" de Man, 1897 — nymph snapping shrimp
*"Alpheus exilis" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus facetus" de Man, 1908
*"Alpheus fagei" Crosnier & Forest, 1965
*"Alpheus fasciatus" Lockington, 1878
*"Alpheus fasqueli" Anker, 2001
*"Alpheus felgenhaueri" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus firmus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus floridanus" Kingsley, 1878
*"Alpheus formosus" Gibbs, 1850
*"Alpheus frontalis" H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
*"Alpheus galapagensis" Sivertson, 1933
*"Alpheus georgei" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus glaber" (Olivi, 1792)
*"Alpheus gracilipes" Stimpson, 1861 — daisy snapping shrimp
*"Alpheus gracilis" Heller, 1862
*"Alpheus grahami" Abele, 1975
*"Alpheus hailstonei" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus hamus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus hebes" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus heeia" Banner & Banner, 1975
*"Alpheus heronicus" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus heterochaelis" Say, 1818
*"Alpheus hippothoe" de Man, 1888
*"Alpheus holthuisi" Ribiero, 1964
*"Alpheus hoonsooni" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus hoplocheles" Coutière, 1897
*"Alpheus hortensis" Wicksten & McClure, 2003
*"Alpheus hutchingsae" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus hyeyoungae" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus immaculatus" Knowlton & Keller, 1983
*"Alpheus inca" Wicksten & Mendez, 1981
*"Alpheus inopinatus" Holthuis & Gottlieb, 1958
*"Alpheus intrinsicus" Bate, 1888
*"Alpheus japonicus" Miers, 1879
*"Alpheus kingsley" Miers, 1879
*"Alpheus labis" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus lacertosus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus laevis" Randall, 1840
*"Alpheus lanceloti" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus lanceostylus" (Banner, 1959)
*"Alpheus latipes" (Banner, 1953)
*"Alpheus latus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus leptochirus" Coutière, 1906
*"Alpheus leviusculus" Dana, 1852
*"Alpheus lobidens" de Haan, 1850
*"Alpheus longimanus" Bate, 1888
*"Alpheus longinquus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus lottini" Guérin-Méneville, 1829 — coral snapping shrimp
*"Alpheus lutarius" (De Saussure, 1857)
*"Alpheus mackayi" Banner, 1959
*"Alpheus macrocheles" (Hailstone, 1835)
*"Alpheus macrodactylus" Ortmann, 1890
*"Alpheus maindroni" Coutière, 1898
*"Alpheus malabaricus" (Fabricius, 1775)
*"Alpheus malleator" Dana, 1852
*"Alpheus malleodigitus" (Bate, 1888)
*"Alpheus martini" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus mazatlanicus" Wicksten, 1983
*"Alpheus microstylus" (Bate, 1888)
*"Alpheus miersi" Coutière, 1898
*"Alpheus migrans" Lewinsohn & Holthuis, 1978
*"Alpheus mitis" Dana, 1852
*"Alpheus moretensis" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus naos" Anker, Hurt & Knowlton, 2007
*"Alpheus normanni" Kinglsey, 1878
*"Alpheus novaezelandiae" Miers, 1876 — New Zealand pistol prawn
*"Alpheus nuttingi" (Schmitt, 1924)
*"Alpheus oahuensis" (Banner, 1953)
*"Alpheus obesomanus" Dana, 1852
*"Alpheus ochrostriatus" Miya
*"Alpheus ovaliceps"Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus pachychirus" Stimpson, 1861
*"Alpheus pacificus" Dana, 1852
*"Alpheus panamensis" Kinglsey, 1878
*"Alpheus papillosus" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus parabrevipes" Coutière, 1898
*"Alpheus paracrinitus" Miers, 1881 — smoothclaw snapping shrimp
*"Alpheus paraculeipes" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus paradentipes" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus paraformosus" Anker, Hurt & Knowlton, 2008 [cite journal |author=Anker, Hurt & Knowlton |title= Revision of the "Alpheus formosus" Gibbes, 1850 complex, with redescription of "A. formosus" and description of a new species from the tropical western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1707 |year=2008 |pages=1–22 http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01707p022f.pdf]
*"Alpheus paralcyone" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus parasocialis"Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus pareuchirus" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus parvirostris" Dana, 1852
*"Alpheus peasei" (Armstrong, 1940)
*"Alpheus percyi" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus platycheirus" Boone, 1927
*"Alpheus platyunguiculatus" (Banner, 1953)
*"Alpheus polystictus" Knowlton & Keller, 1985
*"Alpheus polyxo" de Man, 1908
*"Alpheus pseudopugnax" (Banner, 1953)
*"Alpheus pubescens" de Man, 1908
*"Alpheus pugilator" A. Milne-Edwards, 1878
*"Alpheus pugnax" Dana, 1852
*"Alpheus randalli" Banner, 1981
*"Alpheus rapacida" de Man, 1908
*"Alpheus rapax" Fabricius, 1798
*"Alpheus rathbunae" (Schmitt, 1924)
*"Alpheus rectus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus ribeiroae" Anker & Dworschak, 2004
*"Alpheus richardsoni" Yaldwyn, 1971
*"Alpheus ridleyi" Pocock, 1890
*"Alpheus roquensis" Knowlton & Keller, 1985
*"Alpheus rostratus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus rouxii" Guérin-Méneville, 1857
*"Alpheus rubromaculatus" (Stimpson, 1855)
*"Alpheus rugimanus" A. Milne-Edwards, 1878
*"Alpheus saxidomus" Holthuis, 1980
*"Alpheus schmitti" Chace, 1972
*"Alpheus scopulus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus serenei" Tiwari, 1963
*"Alpheus simus" (Guérin-Méneville, 1855)
*"Alpheus sivado" Risso, 1816
*"Alpheus socialis" Heller, 1865 — smooth pistol prawn
*"Alpheus soela" Banner & Banner, 1986
*"Alpheus soror" Bruce, 1999
*"Alpheus spinicaudus" Lockington, 1878
*"Alpheus spinus" (Sowerby, 1805)
*"Alpheus splendidus" Coutière, 1897
*"Alpheus spongiarum" Coutière, 1897 — bristle snapping shrimp
*"Alpheus stantoni" Banner & Banner, 1986
*"Alpheus staphylinus" Coutière, 1908
*"Alpheus stephensoni" Banner & Smalley, 1969
*"Alpheus strenuus" Dana, 1852 — snowflake snapping shrimp
*"Alpheus sublanacus" (Forskal, 1775)
*"Alpheus sudara" Banner & Banner, 1966
*"Alpheus sulcatus" Kingsley, 1878
*"Alpheus superciliaris" Coutière, 1905
*"Alpheus tasmanicus" Banner & Banner, 1982
*"Alpheus tenuis" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus thomasi" Hendrix & Gore, 1973
*"Alpheus togatus" (Armstrong, 1940)
*"Alpheus tricolor" Anker, 2001
*"Alpheus tridentatus" Zehntner, 1894
*"Alpheus umbo" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus utriensis" Ramos & von Prahl, 1989
*"Alpheus vanderbilti" Boone, 1930
*"Alpheus verrilli" (Schmitt, 1924)
*"Alpheus villosus" (Olivier, 1811) — hairy pistol prawn
*"Alpheus villus" Kim & Abele, 1988
*"Alpheus viridari" (Armstrong, 1940)
*"Alpheus ventrosus" H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
*"Alpheus websteri" Kingsley, 1880
*"Alpheus wickstenae" Christoffersen & Ramos, 1987
*"Alpheus williamsi" Bruce, 1994

External links

* [http://www.marine.csiro.au/caabsearch/caab_search.family_listing?ctg=28&fcde=765&fseq=1 CSIRO]
* [http://www.iobis.org/OBISWEB/ObisControllerServlet?category=all&names=data&tableName=0&searchName=Alpheus&x=18&y=8 OBIS]

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