Decapoda - Caridea - Alpheidae - Alpheus
| Alpheus gracilipes Stimpson, 1860 |
World Distribution
Nomura & Anker (2005: 110, Crustacean Research) - Widely distributed in the IWP. Red Sea to Japan, Hawaii: Tahiti French Polynesia (type locality), Djibouti, Vietnam, Southern China, Guam, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Fiji. Perhaps Réunion, Mayotte.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with corals (obligate)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-22 m
Mayotte data
Alpheus gracilipes - Banner & Banner, 1983 : 32 (Comores pour les spécimens examinés). - Alpheus aff. gracilipes - Mission KUW novembre 2009, St. 19, Nord îlot Handrema, 6-10 m, 1 femelle Lc 8,6 mm, Lt env. 29,5 mm, MNHN Na17669. Dét. A. Anker.
Réunion data
Alpheus gracilipes - Ribes, 1978 (Réunion). - Banner & Banner, 1983 : 32 (Réunion dans le matériel examiné).
New Caledonia data
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Monod T, Cahier du Pacifique. - Nomura & Anker, 2005: 106, Crustacean Research, New Caledonia, 1 M, 1 F ov. Nouméa (MNHN Na 8151).
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Alpheus gracillipes Stimpson, 1860: 32 [100] (Tahiti "inter corallia"). - Heller, 1865: 108 (Tahiti). - Ortmann, 1890: 488 (Marquises). - A.H. & D.M. Banner, 1967: 276 ("BD3, coral heads, BD30, BD36, inner reef" = Tahiti, "BD7, shallow fringing reef, BD13, sandy bottom from various living and dead corals, BD14, BD19, from Pocillopora, BD21-22, BD25-26, BD28-29" = Bora Bora; Moorea; redescription). - Miya, 1974: 154, pl. 30 (In dead and overgrown corals of Pocillopora spp., Stylophora mordax and others). - Naim, 1980, annex 1-2 (Moorea; in algae Halimeda opuntia and Symploca hypnoides). - Kropp & Birkeland, 1981: 630, tab. 5 (Moorea; in coral Pocillopora). - Odinetz, 1983: 207 (Moorea, Tahiti; in coral Pocillopora, non obligate associate). - Poupin, 1998: 19 (Checklist). - Anker, 2001, fasc. 2: 196 (References, distribution; p. 6 several specimens in SMF, ZRC, AS collections from Hawaii, Okinawa, French Polynesia). - Nomura & Anker, 2005: 106, fig. 1-2, 13a-b, 1 M, 4 F ov, 3 juv MNHN Na7064, Description of a neotype from Tahiti. Color photograph from Japan. - Moorea Biocode project (with a cf.). - Mission CRIOBE 2014 (Moorea). - Alpheus gracilipes - De Grave et al., 2014, tab. 1, Zoologica Scripta, Moorea.
Comment(s) on data
Nomura & Anker (2005, Crustacean Research) have revised the Alpheus gracilipes complex including 6 distincts species. Several of older records of A. 'gracilipes' must be revised according to their work.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database