original description: Kim, W. & L.G. Abele, 1988. The snapping shrimp genus Alpheus from the Eastern Pacific (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae).— Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 454: 1-119. [details]
basis of record: 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. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Citation: Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2013). Alpheus firmus W. Kim & Abele, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=514872 on 2013-05-22