Alpheidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Alpheoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Caridea Superfamilia: Alpheoidea

Familia: Alpheidae
Genera: Alpheopsis – Alpheus – Amphibetaeus – Arete – Aretopsis – Athanas – Athanopsis – Automate – Bannereus – Batella – Betaeopsis – Betaeus – Bruceopsis – Caligoneus – Fenneralpheus – Hamalpheus – Harperalpheus – Jengalpheops – Leptalpheus – Leptathanas – Leslibetaeus – Metabetaeus – Metalpheus – Mohocaris – Nennalpheus – Neoalpheopsis – Notalpheus – Pachelpheus – Parabetaeus – Pomagnathus – Potamalpheops – Prionalpheus – Pseudathanas – Pterocaris – Racilius – Richalpheus – Salmoneus – Synalpheus – Triacanthoneus – Vexillipar

Name

Alpheidae Rafinesque, 1815

Type genus: Alpheus Fabricius, 1798

References

Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Palerme: L'Imprimerie de Jean Barravecchia. 224 pp. BHL Reference page.

Almeida, A.O., Terossi, M., Buranelli, R.C., Castilho, A.L., Costa, R.C., Zara, F.J. & Mantelatto, F.L. 2018. Checklist of decapods (Crustacea) from the coast of São Paulo State (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: II. Infraorder Caridea: family Alpheidae. Zootaxa 4450(3): 331–358. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.3.2 Reference page.
Anker, A. 2010: Description of a new genus and two new species of alpheid shrimps from Guam (Crustacea, Decapoda). Pp. 389-404 in De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (eds.): Contributions to shrimp taxonomy. Zootaxa, 2372: 1–414. Preview
Anker, A. 2010: New findings of rare or little-known alpheid shrimp genera (Crustacea, Decapoda) in Moorea, French Polynesia. Zootaxa, 2403: 23–41. Preview
Anker, A. 2010: A new genus and three new species of alpheid shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the tropical American coasts. Zootaxa, 2652: 47–63. Preview.
Anker, A. 2015: Description of a new distinctive species of Parabetaeus Coutière, 1897 (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa 3957(5): 585–595. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.5.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Anker, A. 2015: Alpheopsis balaeniceps sp. nov., an unusual alpheid shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea) from French Polynesia. Zootaxa 3972(1): 85–92. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.1.6. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Anker, A. 2017. A new deep-water species of Alpheopsis Coutière, 1897 from the Indo-West Pacific (Decapoda: Alpheidae). Zootaxa 4226(4): 571–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4226.4.7. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Anker, A. 2017. Strongly carinate species of Alpheopsis Coutière, 1897 of the tropical Atlantic and eastern Pacific, with redescription of A. trigona (Rathbun, 1901) and description of three new species (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Alpheidae). Zootaxa 4277(2): 199–227. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.2.2. Reference page.
Anker, A. 2019. The alpheid shrimp genus Nennalpheus Banner & Banner, 1981 in the tropical eastern Atlantic, with description of a new species from Gabon and new records of N. sibogae (De Man, 1910) in the Indo-West Pacific (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Caridea). Zootaxa 4646(1): 87–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4646.1.5 Reference page.
Anker, A. 2020. A remarkable burrow-dwelling alpheid shrimp, new genus and new species, from the tropical eastern Pacific (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Caridea). Zootaxa 4731(1): 75–88. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4731.1.5 Reference page.
Anker, A. & M.-S. Jeng, 2006: RICHALPHEUS PALMERI, N. GEN., N. SP., AN INFAUNAL ALPHEID SHRIMP FROM THE PHILIPPINES, WITH REDESCRIPTION OF AMPHIBETAEUS JOUSSEAUMEI (COUTIÈRE, 1896) (DECAPODA: CARIDEA). Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(3): 379–391. Abstract: DOI: 10.1651/S-2647.1.
Anker, A.; Poddoubtchenko, D.; Wehrtmann, I.S. 2006: Leslibetaeus coibita, n. gen., n. sp., a new alpheid shrimp from the Pacific coast of Panama (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zootaxa, 1183: 27–41. Abstract & excerpt
Komai, T. & Fujita, Y. 2018. A new genus and new species of alpheid shrimp from a marine cave in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with additional record of Salmoneus antricola Komai, Yamada & Yunokawa, 2015 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Zootaxa 4369(4): 575–586. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4369.4.7 Reference page.
Wang, Y-R. & Sha, Z-L. 2017. Description of two new species of the genus Automate De Man, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the South China Sea. Zootaxa 4238(1): 30–42. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.2. Reference page.

Links

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Alpheidae Rafinesque, 1815 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

English: Snapping shrimp, Pistol shrimp, Alpheid shrimp
日本語: テッポウエビ科
русский: Раки-щелкуны
ไทย: กุ้งดีดขัน, กุ้งกระเตาะ
中文: 鼓虾科