Species Charybdis (Charybdis) hellerii (A. Milne Edwards, 1867)
- Goniosoma hellerii Milne Edwards, A. 1867. Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles de Crustacés Brachyures. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 7: 263-288 [282].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP B761 S ♂, New Caledonia.Subsequent designation references:
Apel, M. & Spiridonov, V.A. 1998. Taxonomy and zoogeography of the portunid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) of the Arabian Gulf and adjacent waters. Fauna of Arabia 17: 159-331 [196]. - Charybdis vannamei Ward, M. 1941. New Brachyura from the Gulf of Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. American Museum Novitates 1104: 1-15 figs 1-30 [4 figs 5-6].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 8507 ♂, mouth of Padada River, Gulf of Davao, Mindanao, Philippines. - Goniosoma merguiense de Man, J.G. 1888. Report on the Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. Parts I–V. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 22(136–140): 1-312 pls 1-19 [82 pl. 5 figs 3, 4].
Type data:
Syntype(s) IM, Mergui Archipelago; RMNH D1310 2♂, Mergui Archipelago; ZMB 7536 ♂, Mergui Archipelago.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Wee, D.P.C. & Ng P.K.L. 1995. Swimming crabs of the Genera Charybdis de Haan, 1833, and Thalamita Latreille, 1829 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 1: 1-128 [32]
- 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. [473] (synonymy of C. vannamei with C. helleri needs to be confirmed)
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west central Pacific Oceans, introduced to eastern Mediterranean, Florida, Cuba, Venezuela, the Caribbean coast of Columbia, and Brazil.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Low intertidal, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Under rocks and coral, on rocky, sandy and muddy shores, and coral reefs, to 30 m depth.
General References
Tavares, M. & Braga de Mendonca, J., Jr 1996. Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne Edwards, 1867) (Brachyura: Portunidae), eighth nonindigenous marine decapod recorded from Brazil. Crustacean Research 25: 151-157
History of changes
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| 04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |