Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Alpheus malleator
camarón chasqueador pinza de martillo, Hammerclaw snapping shrimp
Intertidal and subtidal, under rocks.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Alpheoidea
Family
Alpheidae
Genus
Alpheus
Species
malleator
Taxon category: Accepted
Taxon origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Gulf of California to Ecuador including Galapagos Islands.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Zimmerman, T.L. (2000) A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 156 pp.
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Wicksten, M.K. (1991) Caridean and stenopodid shrimp of the Galápagos Islands. In: M.J. James (ed): Galápagos Marine Invertebrates; Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin´s Islands. Plenum Press, New York, London, p. 147-156.