Species Chlorodiella nigra (Forsskål, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer nigra Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [89].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC, Djeddah, Red Sea.
• Chlorodius nebulosus Dana, J.D. 1852. Conspectus Crustaceorum, etc. Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt Wilkes, U.S.N., including the Crustacea Cancroidea Corystoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6: 73-86 [80].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Sulu Sea.
• Chlorodius depressus Heller, C. 1861. Beiträge zur Crustaceen-Fauna des rothen Meeres. Erster Theil. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 43(1): 297-374 pls 1-4 [338].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Red Sea.
• Cancer clymene Herbst, J.F.W. 1801. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Berlin & Stralsund : Gottlieb August Lange Vol. 3 Pt 2 pp. 1–46 pls 51–54. [41].
• ?Chlorodius hirtipes White, A. 1848. Short descriptions of new or little known decapod Crustacea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London [1847]15: 222-228 [226].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Morgan, G.J. 1990. A collection of Thalassinidea, Anomura and Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 265: 1-90 [42]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west-central Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan and east to Hawai'i and French Polynesia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, rock reef, shallow subtidal.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)