Species Ceratoplax glaberrima (Haswell, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pilumnus glaberrimus Haswell, W.A. 1881. On some new Australian Brachyura. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(3): 540-551 [544].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P210 2 specimens, Port Jackson, NSW
  Comment: other possible syntype AM P735 2 specimens, AM P2263 6 specimens.
• Ceratoplax punctata Baker, W.H. 1907. Notes on South Australian Decapod Crustacea. Part V. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31(5): 173-191 pls 23-25 [176-177 pl. 23 figs 2, 2a,b].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, southern coast, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rathbun, M.J. 1923. Report on the Crabs obtained by the F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the Coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Report on the Brachyrhyncha, Oxystomata and Dromiacea. pp. 95–156 figs 1–3, pls 16–42 in, Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. "Endeavour", 1909–14. Sydney : Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Trade and Customs. Vol. 5 398 pp. [111]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Rock reef, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth to 10 m.

 

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)