Species Caphyra laevis (A. Milne Edwards, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Goniosoma laeve Milne Edwards, A. 1869. Description de quelques Crustacés Nouveaux de la familie des Portuniens. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 5: 146-160 pls 6-7 [152] [as Goniosoma laéve.].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, New Caledonia.
• Caphyra semigranosa de Man, J.G. 1888. Bericht über die von Herrn Dr. J. Brock im indischen Archipel gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 53(1): 215-600 pls 7-22, 22a [for publication date Clark, P.F., Harrison, K. & Goodman, S.L. 1990. Brock's Indian Archipelago Decapoda and Stomatopoda by De Man: 1887 or 1888?. Arch. Nat. Hist. 17(1): 79–80] [337].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMG ♀, Edam Island, Indonesia.
• Caphyra octodentata Haswell, W.A. 1882. Description of some new species of Australian Decapoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(4): 750-763 [753].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM(MMUS) ♂ (invalid allocation of holotype status by Griffin, D.J.G. & Stanbury, P.J. 1970. Type Specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. V. Decapod Crustaceans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 95(1): 122–131 [129]), Palm Island, QLD.
• Caphyra suvaensis Edmondson, C.H. 1935. New and rare Polynesian Crustacea. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 10(24): 3-40 figs 1-11 pls 1-2 [22 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂, Fiji.
• ?Caphyra natatrix Zehntner, L. 1894. Crustacés de l'Archipel malais. Voyage de MM.M. Bedot and C. Pictet dans l'Archipel malais. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 2: 135-214 pls 7-9 [162].

  Secondary source:

   Crosnier, A. 1975. Sur les Caphyra (Crustacea Decapoda Portunidae) de l'océan Indien occidental et de la mer Rouge. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 3 (Zool.) 214: 743-764 [759].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Crosnier, A. 1975. Sur les Caphyra (Crustacea Decapoda Portunidae) de l'océan Indien occidental et de la mer Rouge. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 3 (Zool.) 214: 743-764 [759]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Hibernia Reef, Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Madagascar to Fiji).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, reef flat, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

In alcyonarian (Xenia and Heteroxenia species), from 1–10 m depth.

 

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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)