Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Caridea - Alpheidae - Alpheus

Alpheus gracilipes Stimpson, 1860


Distribution : Anker (2001, fasc. 2, p. 196) - Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, E and S Africa, Madagascar, Comores, Seychelles, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, south China Sea, Japan, Micronesia, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, New Guinea (new local record, Pik Islands, Madang), New Britain, Solomon Islands, New Caldedonia, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Hawaii.

Selected Reference(s)
Alpheus gracillipes. - Stimpson, W., 1860: 32. - French Polynesia
Alpheus gracillipes. - Banner, A. H. and Banner, D. M., 1967: 276. - French Polynesia
Alpheus gracillipes. - Kropp, R. K. and Birkeland, C., 1981: 630, tab. 5. - French Polynesia
Alpheus gracillipes. - Anker, A., 2001: fasc. 2, p. 196. [Worldwide preliminary catalogue] - French Polynesia
Alpheus gracilipes. - Nomura, K. and Anker, A., 2005: 105, fig. 1-2, 13a-b. [Description of a neotype. Color photograph] - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Marquesas; Society (Bora Bora, Moorea, Tahiti) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; Coral facultative associate (Gen. Pocillopora); Hard bottom.

Regional Records: 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: 105, fig. 1-2, 13a-b (Description of a neotype from Tahiti. Color photograph from Japan). - Moorea Biocode project (with a cf.)

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/