Species Achaeus curvirostris (A. Milne Edwards, 1873)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stenorhynchus curvirostris Milne Edwards, A. 1873. Description de quelques Crustacés nouveaux ou peu connus provenant du Musée de M.C. Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 1(4): 77-88 pls 12, 13 [253].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMH 3710, Bass Strait.
• Stenorhynchus fissifrons Haswell, W.A. 1879. On two new species of crabs, of the genus Stenorhynchus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: 408-409 [409].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM(MMUS) ♂, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Achaeus tenuicollis Miers, E.J. 1886. Report on the Brachyura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 17(49): i-xlix 1-362 pls 1-29 [9 pl. 1 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1964.5.11.1 ♂, Port Phillip, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 84.31 2♀, off East Moncoeur Is., Bass Strait.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Griffin, D.J.G. & Yaldwyn, J.C. 1965. A record of the majid brachyuran genus Achaeus from New Zealand with notes on the Australian species. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology 6(4): 33-51, text-figs 1-8 [38].
• Achaeus elongatus Sakai, T. 1938. Brachygnatha, Oxyrhyncha. Studies on the Crabs of Japan 3. Tokyo : Yokendo pp. 193-364, text-figs 1-55 pls 1-22. [223 figs 13a-c].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♂, between Ito and Hatsushima, W of Sagami Bay, Japan.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Griffin, D.J.G. & Yaldwyn, J.C. 1965. A record of the majid brachyuran genus Achaeus from New Zealand with notes on the Australian species. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology 6(4): 33-51, text-figs 1-8 [38]
• Griffin, D.J.G. & Tranter, H. 1986. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. Part VIII. Majidae. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 39(c4): 1-335, 112 text-figs 22 pls [9]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan and New Zealand).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth to about 150 m, often with a diverse collection of other decapods living epifaunally, see, <0494> [43].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	24-May-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
22-Dec-2016	DECAPODA Latreille, 1803	24-May-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
05-Jun-2012		05-Jun-2012	MOVED
16-Feb-2012		16-Feb-2012	MOVED
16-Feb-2012		16-Feb-2012	MOVED
16-Feb-2012		16-Feb-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		18-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)