Species Actumnus setifer (De Haan, 1835)
Short-haired Crab
- Cancer setifer De Haan, W. 1835. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugundi-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [50 pl. 3 fig. 3].
Type data:
Lectotype RMNH D42108 ♂ (mouthparts registered as D42109), Japan.
Paralectotype(s) MNHP B7041 ♀, Japan; RMNH D42108 ♂, Japan.Subsequent designation references:
Yamaguchi, T. & Baba, K. 1993. Crustacean specimens collected in Japan by Ph.F. von Siebold and H. Bürger and held by the National Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden and other museums. pp. 145-563 in Yamaguchi, T. (ed.). Ph.F. von Siebold and Natural History of Japan Crustacea. Japan : Shimoda Printing Inc. [454]. - Actumnus tomentosus Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea, Part 1. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(1): 1-685 [243 pl. 14 fig. 2a-c].
Type data:
Status unknown, (presumed lost), Tahiti or Upolu, Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan, Samoa, Fiji and Tahiti).
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, low intertidal, reef, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Found in crevices of rocks, coral and rubble, sponges or algae, depth to 200 m.
General References
Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [285] (figured)
Morgan, G.J. 1990. A collection of Thalassinidea, Anomura and Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 265: 1-90 [54]
History of changes
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