Species Atergatis floridus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer floridus Linnaeus, C. 1767. Classis V. Insecta. Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae. Vol. 1(2). 533-1327 pp. [1041].

  Type data:

   Neotype ZRC 1999.0332 ♂, Pulau Seringat, Singapore.

  Secondary source:

   Ng, P. K. L. & Davie, P. J. F. 2007. On the Identity of Atergatis floridus (Linnaeus, 1767) and recognition of Atergatis ocyroe (Herbst, 1901) as a valid species from the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae). Bulletin of the Raffles Museum Supplement 16: 169-175.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Tokyo : Kodansha 3 vols xxix 773 pp. [English vol.]; 1–16, 251 pls [Plates vol.]; 461 pp. [Japanese vol.]. [409]
• Ng, P.K.L. & Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the Macleay Collection, University of Sydney, Australia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49(1): 83-100 [90]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southeast Asia and Pacific

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 Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, reef flat, rock reef, shallow subtidal.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		22-Jun-2011	MODIFIED