Genus Arcania Leach, 1817

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arcania Leach, W.E. 1817. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals … illustrated with coloured figures drawn from nature by R.P. Nodder &c. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [24] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer erinaceus Fabricius, 1787 by monotypy.
• Iphis Leach, W.E. 1817. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals … illustrated with coloured figures drawn from nature by R.P. Nodder &c. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [19] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cancer septemspinosus Fabricius, 1787 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tirmizi, N.M. & Kazmi, Q.B. 1988. Crustacea: Brachyura (Dromiacea, Archaeobrachyura, Oxystomata, Oxyrhyncha). Marine Fauna of Pakistan, 4, Karachi: BCCI Foundation Chair, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Karachi 6, 246 pp., 2 colour frontispiece. [71]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Southwest Transition (7)

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
30-Mar-2012		02-Aug-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)