• Austrothelphusa Bott, R. 1969. Flußkrabben aus Asien und ihre Klassifikation (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenbergiana Biologica 50(5/6): 359-366 [363] [first introduced as a subgenus of Holthuisana Bott, 1969; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Thelphusa transversa Martens, 1868 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea, Fiji.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda—Anomura, Brachyura. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiv 641 pp. [377] (accorded Austrothelphusa full generic status)

History of changes

• Potamon (Geothelphusa) agassizi Rathbun, M.J. 1905. Les crabs d'eau douce (Potamonidae). Part 2. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4 7: 159-323, text-figs 38-105 pls 13-22 [211 pl. 18 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 6309 ♂, Lizard Island, off coast of N QLD.
• Geothelphusa leichardti plana McCulloch, A.R. 1917. Studies in Australian Crustacea No. 4. Records of the Australian Museum 11(11): 231-238 [236 pl. 42 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P4110 ♂, Eureka Creek, Walsh River, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM G1091; AM P1954; AM P4111; AM P4112.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bishop, J.A. 1963. The Australian freshwater crabs of the family Potamonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 14: 218-238 [227]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From Ravenshoe west to Walsh River, near Chillagoe, and north to Iron Range in the east, and Archer River in the west.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, freshwater.

General References

Riek, E.F. 1951. The Freshwater Crayfish (Family Parastacidae) of Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 368-388 [353]

Short, J.W. 1994. A new species of freshwater crab (Sundathelphusidae) from Cape York Peninsula. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35(1): 235-240

Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1993. Catalogue of Crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1-134 [103-104] (invalid designation of lectotype for Geothelphusa leichardti plana McCulloch; the caption to pl. 42 fig. 5 clearly designates the figured and identified male specimen as the 'type of variety')

History of changes

• Thelphusa angustifrons Milne Edwards, A. 1869. Révision de genre Thelphusa et description de quelques espèces nouvelles. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 5: 161-191 pls 8-11 [171 pl. 8 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Cape York, N QLD.
• Paratelphusa (Liotelphusa) podenzane Colosi, G. 1919. I poamonidi conservati nel R. museo Zoologico di Firenze. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 1919(1): 39-62 [54].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MZUF M.849, Cape York.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bishop, J.A. 1963. The Australian freshwater crabs of the family Potamonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 14: 218-238 [232]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait south to Musgrave Stn, Normanby River, Cape York.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, freshwater.

History of changes

• Austrothelphusa gilbertensis Naser, M.D., Davie, P.J.F. & Waltham, N.J. 2018. Redescription of Austrothelphusa wasselli (Bishop, 1963) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), and designation of a new species from the Gilbert River, north Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 4369(1): 109–127 [119].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM W28346 ♂, Venture Creek, E of Croydon, Gilbert Catchment, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) QM W28040 3 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, same as holotype; QM W28339 1 ♂, small creek off Gilbert River, QLD; QM W28305 1 ♀, Pleasant Creek, off Gilbert River, QLD.

Introduction

A member of the Austrothelphusa wasselli species-complex (see Naser et al. 2018)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP)

General References

Naser, M.D., Davie, P.J.F. & Waltham, N.J. 2018. Redescription of Austrothelphusa wasselli (Bishop, 1963) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), and designation of a new species from the Gilbert River, north Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 4369(1): 109–127

History of changes

• Parathelphusa raceki Bishop, J.A. 1963. The Australian freshwater crabs of the family Potamonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 14: 218-238 [233 figs 1d, 2a, 4, pl.].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G4219 ♂, Batavia River [Wenlock River], near Mapoon Mission, Cape York.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From Wenlock River to Archer River, on western coast, and around Port Stewart, in the east.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, freshwater.

General References

Short, J.W. 1994. A new species of freshwater crab (Sundathelphusidae) from Cape York Peninsula. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35(1): 235-240 [235]

History of changes

• Holthuisana (Austrothelphusa) tigrina Short, J.W. 1994. A new species of freshwater crab (Sundathelphusidae) from Cape York Peninsula. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35(1): 235-240 [235 figs 1-6].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM W18822 ♂, headwaters of One Mile Creek, a tributary of the Alice River, Cape York.
  Paratype(s) QM W17162; QM W19027.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, freshwater.

History of changes

• Thelphusa transversa Martens, E. von 1868. Über einige neue Crustaceen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868: 608-615 [609].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 2976, Cape York, northern Australia.
• Thelphusa crassa Milne Edwards, A. 1869. Révision de genre Thelphusa et description de quelques espèces nouvelles. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 5: 161-191 pls 8-11 [177 pl. 9 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP no reg. available, Cape York, northern Australia.
• Thelphusa leichardti Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [236].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 46.74, 77.32, Eastern Australia (designation of Cape York as type locality of the species may be incorrect).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bott, R. 1970. Die Süsswasserkrabben von Europa, Asien, Australien und ihre Stammesgeschichte. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 526: 1-338 pls 1-58 figs 1-8 [94]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

From Fitzroy River, near Derby, across northern Australia to west of Chillagoe, N QLD, and south to Lake Eyre catchment and down the Murray-Darling system to about Nyngan, mid-western NSW, east of Great Dividing Range between Townsville and Gladstone, QLD.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, freshwater, springs, swamp.

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda—Anomura, Brachyura. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiv 641 pp. [378] (appears to be a species-complex with possibly three undescribed species across the northern coastal strip)

Naser, M.D., Davie, P.J.F. & Waltham, N.J. 2018. Redescription of Austrothelphusa wasselli (Bishop, 1963) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), and designation of a new species from the Gilbert River, north Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 4369(1): 109–127 [118]

History of changes

• Paratelphusa valentula Riek, E.F. 1951. The Australian freshwater crabs (Potamonidae). Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 351-357 [355 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P11982 ♂, Coen, N Queensland.
  Paratype(s) AM P11983 ♀ (as allotype); AM P11910.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From west and east flowing catchments in the vicinity of Coen, Cape York.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, freshwater.

General References

Bishop, J.A. 1963. The Australian freshwater crabs of the family Potamonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 14: 218-238 [231]

History of changes

• Parathelphusa wasselli Bishop, J.A. 1963. The Australian freshwater crabs of the family Potamonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 14: 218-238 [229 figs 1a, 2d, 4, pl.].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P14524 ♂, Port Stewart District, Cape York, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P14525 ♀ (as allotype); AM P14529; WAM 574-85 ♂ ♀.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Near Croydon, Norman River catchment, north to Coen River, in the west, and east to upper Baron River, and north to Port Stewart, Cape York, in the east.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, freshwater, temporary pond.

General References

Bishop, J.A. 1963. The Australian freshwater crabs of the family Potamonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 14: 218-238 [229]

Naser, M.D., Davie, P.J.F. & Waltham, N.J. 2018. Redescription of Austrothelphusa wasselli (Bishop, 1963) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), and designation of a new species from the Gilbert River, north Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 4369(1): 109–127 (redescription)

History of changes