Malacostraca | 
Decapoda | 
Alpheidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range				
				
					Ecology				
				
			
			
				Benthic.  Temperate			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Eastern Indian Ocean:  Australia.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
			
			
				Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 0.2 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 79724)			
			
			
						
			
			
			
			
				
									
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae				
			
			
				
					Members of the order Decapoda are mostly gonochoric.  Mating behavior:  Precopulatory courtship ritual is common (through olfactory and tactile cues); usually indirect sperm transfer.  				
			
			
			
			
			
				Anker, A. and S. Ahyong 2007 A rediagnosis of Athanopsis australis Banner & Banner, 1982, a rare alpheid shrimp from Southern Australia, with a phylogeny of Athanopsis Coutière, 1897and remarks on antitropical distributions in the Alipheidae (Decapoda, Caridea). Crustaceana 80(6):685-697. (Ref. 79724)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (Ref. 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				Threat to humans  
			
			
				
					  Harmless				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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						Fishing Vulnerability  					
					
					
						Low vulnerability (10 of 100).