Species Chlorodiella laevissima (Dana, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chlorodius laevissima Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea, Part 1. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(1): 1-685 [215 pl. 12 figs 4a-g].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Hawai'i (as Sandwich Islands).
• ?Menippe martensii Krauss, F. 1843. Die Südafrikanischen Crustaceen. Eine Zusammenstellung aller bekannten Malacostraca, Bemerkungen über deren Lebenweise und geographische Verbreitung, nebst Beschreibung und Abbildung mehrer neuen Arten. Stuttgart : E. Scheizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 68 pp. 4 pls. [34].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, rock reef, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Tokyo : Kodansha 3 vols xxix 773 pp. [English vol.]; 1–16, 251 pls [Plates vol.]; 461 pp. [Japanese vol.]. [465] (full synonymy and distribution)

 

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)