Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Caridea - Alpheidae - Synalpheus

Synalpheus tumidomanus (Paulson, 1875)



Distribution : Easter Island. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea to South Africa; Indonesia; Philippines; Australia; Phoenix Island; Mediterranea (Israel); intertidal to 148 m (Chace, 1988: 90). Possibly also French Polynesia from Moorea Biocode project.


Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Easter Island; Society (Moorea).

Regional Records: EASTER ISLAND - Synalpheus nr. tumidomanus. - DiSalvo et al., 1988: 458, tab. 4 (Easter Island, scuba dives 15-60m; det. D. Banner). - Remark: according to D'Udekem d'Acoz (1999: 106) this species includes three distinct sub-species, tumidomanus sensu strico being restricted to the Indo-Pacific. - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Moorea Biocode project (first record for FP) (as Alpheus cf. tumidomanus).

Depth distribution: 15 - 60 m


References : compilation of references cited in Poupin (1996, 1998, 2003) and Poupin et al. (2009) - PDF 412 Ko



Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/