Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > 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 [in De Haan, 1833-1850]
Alpheus macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835)
Alpheus migrans Lewinsohn & Holthuis, 1978
Alpheus platydactylus Coutière, 1897
Alpheus rapacida de Man, 1908
Alpheus talismani Coutière, 1898

Literature

original description	Fabricius, J. C. (1798) Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis locis observationibus descriptionibus. Hafniae, Tom. II. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. pages 1- 572. Copenhagen.
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	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
additional source	De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59.
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

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Citation

Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2014). Alpheus Fabricius, 1798. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106978