Species Calcinus dapsiles Morgan, 1989

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calcinus dapsiles Morgan, G.J. 1989. The hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae, Paguridae) of southwestern Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Records of the Australian Museum 14(3): 391-417 [407 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 173-88 ♂, Canal Rocks, S of Yallingup, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM 172-88; WAM 170-88; WAM 171-88; WAM 178-88; WAM 179-88; WAM 180-88; WAM 181-88; WAM 169-88; WAM 183-88; WAM 190-88; WAM 177-88; WAM 176-88; WAM 192-88; WAM 194-88; WAM 193-88; WAM 191-83.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, littoral, rock reef, sand bottom, seagrass, shell bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

A large variety of gastropod shells and rarely serpulid worm tubes are utilised, depth to 97 m.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
24-Apr-2012		24-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)