Species Carpilius maculatus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer maculatus Linnaeus, C. 1767. Classis V. Insecta. Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae. Vol. 1(2). 533-1327 pp. [1042].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (possibly lost), Asia.

  Type locality references:

  Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Tokyo : Kodansha 3 vols xxix 773 pp. [English vol.]; 1–16, 251 pls [Plates vol.]; 461 pp. [Japanese vol.]. [388].
• Cancer nepotei Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp. [176].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56 [45 (Table 45), 52]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, rock bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

To 35 m depth.

 

General References

Ward, M. 1933. The true crabs of the Capricorn Group, Queensland. (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda Brachyura). Part 1. Xanthidae. The Australian Zoologist 7(5): 237-255 [dated 1932 but published 1933] [239]

 

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)