Species Ashtoret lunaris (Forsskål, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer lunaris Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [91].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (Forskål's type material is no longer extant), Red Sea.
• Matuta banksii 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. [14].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1993.26 ♂, 'Australian seas'.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1993.26 ♀, 'Australian seas'.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Galil, B.S. & Clark, P.F. 1994. A revision of the genus Matuta Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 294: 3-55 [5].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Galil, B.S. & Clark, P.F. 1994. A revision of the genus Matuta Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 294: 3-55 [5]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Philippines and New Guinea).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Low intertidal, predator, sand bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From 10–15 m depth.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	02-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)