Species Pachycheles sculptus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Porcellana pisum Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [254].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, China.
• Porcellana sculpta Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [253].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Java.
• Porcellana pulchella Haswell, W.A. 1882. Description of some new species of Australian Decapoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(4): 750-763 [758].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P3878, Port Molle, N QLD.
• Pachycheles sculptus tuberculatus Borradaile, L.A. 1900. On the Stomatopoda and Macrura brought by Dr. Willey from the South seas. pp. 395-428 in Willey, A. (ed.). On the Stomatopoda and Macrura brought by Dr Willey from the South Seas. Pt 4. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [423].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UMZC, Lifu, Loyalty Islands.

  Type locality references:

  Haig, J. 1966. A review of the Indo-west Pacific species of genus Pachycheles (Porcellanidae, Anomura). Symp. Ser. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India. No. 2. Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea Part 1. 285-294 pp.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Haig, J. 1987. Porcellanid crabs from the Coral Sea. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 4(1): 11-14 [11]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (Mergui Archipelago to Ryukyu Islands and French Polynesia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones and in coral heads, typically lower intertidal to 180 m depth, but has apparently been dredged to 1800 m.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
24-Apr-2012		24-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)