Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Caridea - Alpheidae - Automate

Automate dolichognatha De Man, 1888


Distribution : Anker (2001, fasc. 2: 254) - Red Sea, Persian Gulf (new record MNHN), E Africa, Maldives, Madagascar, Mascarenes, India, Sri Lanka (new record), Japan, Taiwan, South China Sea, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia (new records: North West Shelf and Broome, W Australia, Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea, Lady Elliott Island, Darwin), Micronesia, Melanesia, French Polynesia (new records, Austral Islands), Wake Island, Gulf of California, Galapagos, Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Peru (?), Carribean, North Carolina, Brazil, Bermuda, Ascension Island. Plus Clipperton. Intertidal to about 100 m.

Remarks : Lt about 10-20 mm. up to about 100 m.

Selected Reference(s)
Automate gardineri. - Banner, A. H. and Banner, D. M., 1967: 261. - French Polynesia
Automate dolichognatha. - Anker, A., 2001: fasc. 2, p. 254. [Worldwide preliminary catalogue] - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Clipperton (intertidal, sand); Austral; Society (Bora Bora, Moorea) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; Coral facultative associate (Acropora); ?Hard bottom.

Regional Records: CLIPPERTON - Automate sp. - Chace, 1962: 606 (Clipperton). - Automate dolichognatha - Poupin et al., 2007 (Clipperton new record.). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Automate gardineri - A.H. & D.M. Banner, 1966a: 150 (Syn.); 1967: 261 ("BD17, from partially living Acropora and coralline alga" = Bora Bora, "BD33" = Moorea). - Poupin, 1998: 23 (Checklist). - Automate dolichognatha - Anker, 2001, fasc. 2: 254 (References, distribution; new record Austral Islands, MNHN; p. 7, 2 specimens in MNHN, coll. J. Poupin, French Polynesia).

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/