| Reference no. | Description | year | Name used | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80006 | Banner, A.H. and D.M. Banner 1968 Three new species of the genus Alpheus (Decapoda, Alpheidae) from the International Indian Ocean Expedition. Crustaceana 15(2):141-148. | 1968 | Alpheus spatulatus | 146;fig.3 |
| 69553 | Chace, F.A. Jr. 1988 The caridean shrimps (Crustacea--Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910. Part 5, Family Alpheidae. Smithson. Contr. Zool. (466):1- 99. | 1988 | Alpheus spatulatus | 52,54 |
| 833 | Ruppert, E.E., R.S. Fox and R.D. Barnes 2004 Invertebrate Zoology. A functional evolutionary approach. 7th Ed. Brooks/Cole, Thomson Learning learning, Inc. 990 p. | 2004 | Alpheus spatulatus | --> |