Species Alpheus edwardsii (Audouin, 1827)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Athanas edwardsii Audouin, V. 1827. Description de l'Egypt ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypt pendant l'expéditions de l'armée française. In, Description de l'Egypte, Histoire Naturelle. Edn 2. Vol. 22 pp. 249–290. [274].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHP ♂, Suez.
  Paratype(s) MNHP ♀ (as allotype); MNHP 3♂ 6♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Banner, A.H. & Banner, D.M. 1973. The establishment of a neotype for Alpheus edwardsii (Audouin). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 67(88): 1141-1146 1 fig. [1141].
• Alpheus Audouini Coutière, H. 1905. Les Alpheidae. 852-921 pls 70-87, text-figs 127-139 in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes. Cambridge, England : University Press Vol. 2(4). [911].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-Australian, Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks, dredged to 26 m.