Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Alphaeus latimanus A. Costa in Hope, 1851, Alpheus affinis Guise, 1854 Alpheus edwardsii H. Milne Edwards, 1837, Alpheus megacheles Norman, 1868 Alpheus milnei Guérin-Méneville, 1857, Alpheus platyrhynchus Heller, 1862, Hippolyte macrocheles Hailstone, 1835, Hippolyte rubra Westwood, 1835, Hippolyte rubra Hailstone, 1835, Nika platyura Fischer, 1872 (Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Native

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, South Africa, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. (Horton et al., 2021).

• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.