Alvinocaris

Familia: Alvinocarididae
Genus:
Species: A. alexander – A. brevitelsonis – A. chelys – A. costaricensis – A. dissimilis – A. kexueae – A. komaii – A. longirostris – A. lusca – A. marimonte – A. markensis – A. methanophila – A. muricola – A. niwa – A. solitaire – A. stactophila – A. williamsi

Alvinocaris Williams & Chace, 1982

Gender: feminine

Type species: Alvinocaris lusca Williams & Chace, 1982, by original designation

• Williams, A.B. & Chace, F.A. jr. 1982. A new caridean shrimp of the family Bresiliidae from thermal vents of the Galapagos Rift. Journal of crustacean biology 2(1): 136–147. JSTOR Reference page. 

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• Ahyong, S.T. 2009: New species and new records of hydrothermal vent shrimps from New Zealand (Caridea: Alvinocarididae, Hippolytidae). Crustaceana, 82: 775–794. DOI: 10.1163/156854009X427333
• Komai, T.; Chan, T-y. 2010: A new genus and two new species of alvinocaridid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from a hydrothermal vent field off northeastern Taiwan. Pp. 15-32 in De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (eds.): Contributions to shrimp taxonomy. Zootaxa, 2372: 1–414. Preview PDF
• Komai, T.; Segonzac, M. 2005: A revision of the genus Alvinocaris Williams and Chace (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species of Alvinocaris. Journal of natural history, 39: 1111–1175. DOI: 10.1080/00222930400002499 PDF (proof)
• Komai, T.; Shank, T.M.; Van Dover, C.L. 2005: A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) and a new record of A. muricola from methane seeps on the Blake Ridge Diapir, Northwestern Atlantic. Zootaxa, 1019: 27–42. Abstract & excerpt
• Martin, J.W., Wall, A.R., Shank, T.M., Cha, H., Seid, C. & Rouse, G.W. 2018. A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from Costa Rican methane seeps. Zootaxa 4504(3): 418–430. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.3.7 pdf Reference page. 
• Wang, Y-R. & Sha, Z-L. 2017. A new species of the genus Alvinocaris Williams and Chace, 1982 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from the Manus Basin hydrothermal vents, Southwest Pacific. Zootaxa 4226(1): 126–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4226.1.7. Reference page. 
• Yahagi, T., Watanabe, H., Kojima, S., Beedessee, G. & Komai, T. 2014. First record and a new species of Alvinocaris Williams & Chace, 1982 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from the Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 3893(1): 101–113. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.1.4 Reference page. 
• Zelnio, K.A.; Hourdez, S. 2009: A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from hydrothermal vents at the Lau Basin, southwest Pacific, and a key to the species of Alvinocarididae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122: 52–71. DOI: 10.2988/07-28.1

• Kikuchi, T.; Hashimoto, J. 2000: Two new caridean shrimps of the family Alvinocarididae (Crustacea, Decapoda) from a hydrothermal field at the Minami-Ensei Knoll in the mid-Okinawa Trough, Japan. Species diversity, 5: 135–148. ISSN: 1342-1670 Abstract
• Kikuchi, T.; Ohta, S. 1995: Two caridean shrimps of the families Bresiliidae and Hippolytidae from a hydrothermal field on the Iheya Ridge, off the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Journal of crustacean biology, 15: 771–785.
• Shank, T.M.; Martin, J.W. 2003: A new caridean shrimp of the family Alvinocarididae from thermal vents at Menez Gwen on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 116: 158–167.
• Webber, W.R. 2004: A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alvinocarididae) and new records of alvinocaridids from hydrothermal vents north of New Zealand. Zootaxa, 444: 1–26. Abstract & excerpt
• Williams, A.B. 1988: New marine decapod crustaceans from waters influenced by hydrothermal discharge, brine, and hydrocarbon seepage. US Fish and Wildlife Service fishery bulletin, 86: 263–287.

• Alvinocaris – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• Nomenclator Zoologicus

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