Species Gelasimus tetragonon (Herbst, 1790)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer tetragonon Herbst, J.F.W. 1790. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Berlin & Stralsund Vol. 1 Pt 8 pp. 239–274 pls 18–21. [published from 1782–1804] [257].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHP ♂, Egypt.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Crane, J. 1975. Fiddler Crabs of the World. Ocypodidae: Genus Uca. Jersey : Princeton University Press 736 pp. [80].
• Gelasimus variatus Hess, W. 1865. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Decapoden-Krebse Ost-Australiens. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 31: 127-173 pls 6-7 [146].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SMF ZMG 52a 2♂, Sydney, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• George, R.W. & Jones, D.S. 1982. A revision of the Fiddler Crabs of Australia (Ocypodinae: Uca). Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. No. 14: 5-99 [63]

 

Generic Combinations

• Gelasimus tetragonon (Herbst, 1790).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, estuary, intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Often barely protected by a strait or reef from open ocean, often among conglomerates of mixed coral and shell, on mud or muddy sand, sometimes with underlying dead coral.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
26-Mar-2012		26-Mar-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		18-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)