Genus Bellidilia Kinahan, 1856
- Bellidilia Kinahan, J.R. 1856. Remarks on the habits and distribution of marine Crustacea on the eastern shores of Port Philip, Victoria, Australia, with descriptions of undescribed species and genera. Journal of the Royal Dublin Society 1(3): 111-134 [115, 117, 128] [gender feminine].
Type species:
Bellidilia undecimspinosa Kinahan, 1856 by subsequent designation, see Manning, R.B. & Holthuis, L.B. 1981. West African Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 306: i-xii, 1-379 figs 1-88, 2 appendices [60]. - Dittosa Tan, C.G.S. 1995. Dittosa, a new genus of leucosiid (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from southern Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3): 465-476 [465] [gender feminine].
Type species:
Philyra laevis Bell, 1855 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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. [269] (Bellidilia Kinahan, 1856, has long been considered a junior synonym of Ebalia Leach, 1817. Philyra murrayensis Rathbun, was included in a new genus, Dittosa, by Tan (1995), but this species had already been placed into the synonymy of Bellidilia undecimspinosa Kinahan by Griffin (1972), who also transferred B. undecimspinosa to Philyra from Ebalia for the first time. As Tan (1995) was unaware of this action, she did not consult any comparative material of 'Ebalia' undecimspinosa, and thus did not include it in Dittosa. Kinahan created Bellidilia to include his undecimspinosa, and this species was later designated the type for the genus by Manning & Holthuis (1981). Thus Bellidilia Kinahan, 1856, is the senior available generic name, and includes two recognised species B. undecimspinosa Kinahan and B. laevis (Bell))
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
New Zealand.
IMCRA
Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Distribution References
- Tan, C.G.S. 1995. Dittosa, a new genus of leucosiid (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from southern Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3): 465-476 (discusses differences separating this genus from Philyra)
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) |