Species Halicarcinus planatus (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer planatus Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [403].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, New Zealand.
• ?Cancer orbiculus Fabricus, 1775.
• Hymenosoma leachii Guerin-Meneville, J.-P. 1838. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, Arachnides et Insectes, recueillis dans le voyage autour du Monde de la Corvette de S.M. la Coquille, exécuté pendant les anées 1822-1825 sous le commandement du capitaine Duperry. pp. 57-302 in Duperrey, L.I. (ed.). Voyage autour du monde sur la corvette de sa majesté La Coquille Zoologie. Paris : Arthus Bertrand Vol. 2(2) pp. iv-xii 9-319.
• Liriopea lucasii Nicolet, H. 1849. Crustaceos. pp. 115-318 in Gay, C. (ed.). Historia Física y Política de Chile. Zoológica. Chile : Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago Vol. 3 547 pp. [161].
• ?Halicarcinus pubescens Dana, 1851.
• ?Hymenosoma tridentata Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-Subantarctic.

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, littoral, rock bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal pools and under stones, in mussel beds.

General References

Melrose, M.J. 1975. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Family Hymenosomidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 34: 1-123, 2 pls [34]

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