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DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

WoRMS taxon details

Alpheus heterochaelis Say, 1818

158348  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158348)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Caridea (Infraorder)
  12. Alpheoidea (Superfamily)
  13. Alpheidae (Family)
  14. Alpheus (Genus)
  15. Alpheus heterochaelis (Species)
accepted
Species
Alpheus andronyx Christoffersen, 1998 · unaccepted > nomen nudum
Halopsyche lutaria de Saussure, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Variety Alpheus heterochaelis var. orientalis Vilela, 1949 accepted as Alpheus pontederiae de Rochebrune, 1883 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Say, T. (1817-1818). An account of the Crustacea of the United States. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 1(1):57-63, 65-80 (pl.), 97-101, 155-169 (1817); 1(2): 235-253, 313-319, 374-401, 423-441 (1818)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/244401#/summary [details] OpenAccess publication
Depth range Shallow-waters (0-100 m)  
Depth range Shallow-waters (0-100 m) [details]

Distribution Distribution of subprovince extends northward of the Carolinian subprovince of Cape Hatteras through Florida  
Distribution Distribution of subprovince extends northward of the Carolinian subprovince of Cape Hatteras through Florida [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Alpheus heterochaelis Say, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158348 on 2025-05-01
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2005-05-26 07:43:32Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-09-09 15:21:07Z
checked
De Grave, Sammy
2020-07-27 05:48:50Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-03-11 06:33:18Z
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De Grave, Sammy
2022-05-13 08:15:22Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy

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Nomenclature

original description Say, T. (1817-1818). An account of the Crustacea of the United States. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 1(1):57-63, 65-80 (pl.), 97-101, 155-169 (1817); 1(2): 235-253, 313-319, 374-401, 423-441 (1818)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/244401#/summary [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Halopsyche lutaria de Saussure, 1857) de Saussure, H. (1857). Note carcinologique sur la famille des Thalassides et sur celle des Astacides. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquee, ser. 2.</em> 9: 99-102. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Alpheus andronyx Christoffersen, 1998) Christoffersen, M.L. (1998). Malacostraca. Eucarida. Caridea. Crangonoidea and Alpheoidea (Except Glyphocrangonidae and Crangonidae). In: Young, P.S. (ed.), Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil: 351-­372. Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details] OpenAccess publication

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

context source (Bermuda) Markham, J. C.; McDermott, J. J. (1980). A tabulation of the Crustacea Decapoda of Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 93(4): 1266-1276 [details] 

additional source Felder, D. L., Álvarez. F.,Goy, J.W. & Lemaitre, R. (2009). Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea,. <em>Felder, D.L., and Camp, D.K. (eds), Gulf of Mexico - Origins, Waters, and Biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity.</em> Pp. 1019–1104 (Texas A&M University Press: College Station, Texas)., available online at http://biogomx.net/sites/default/files/pdfs/chapters/59-Felder%20et%20al%202009-Decapoda%20of%20the%20GoMx.pdf [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Depth range Shallow-waters (0-100 m) [details]

Distribution Distribution of subprovince extends northward of the Carolinian subprovince of Cape Hatteras through Florida [details]

Habitat Hard bottom (rock and rubbles) [details]
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English bigclaw snapping shrimp  [details]
German Westatlantischer Großscheren-PistolenkrebsWestatlantischer GroßscherenKnallkrebs  [details]
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Halopsyche lutaria de Saussure, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) 
To CRUSTA 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Alpheus heterochaelis) 
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 6 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (40 records) 
To ITIS