Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Alpheoidea > Family Alpheidae

Alpheus Fabricius, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Alpheus bouvieri A. Milne-Edwards, 1878
Alpheus dentipes Guérin, 1832
Alpheus edwardsii (Audouin, 1826)
Alpheus glaber (Olivi, 1792)
Alpheus inopinatus Holthuis & Gottlieb, 1958
Alpheus lobidens De Haan, 1849
Alpheus macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835)
Alpheus migrans Lewinsohn & Holthuis, 1978
Alpheus platydactylus Coutière, 1897
Alpheus rapacida De Man, 1908
Alpheus talismani Coutière, 1898

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Japanese: テッポウエビ属

Literature

original description	Fabricius, J.C. (1798). Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae: Proft et Storck: 1-572.
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Derijard, R. (1966). Note preliminaire sur les crustaces stomatopodes et decapodes recoltes a l'ile Europa du 6 au 24 Avril 1964. Mem Mus Natn Hist Nat, Paris 4 (41): 159-180

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Alpheus Fabricius, 1798. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106978