Species Crenarctus crenatus (Whitelegge, 1900)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arctus crenatus Whitelegge, T. 1900. Crustacea, Part 1. In Scientific results of the trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4, 1(2): 135-199 figs 11-14 pls 32-35 [194 fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM G2393 2♂, 5.5–6.5 km off Wata Mooli, NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Chan, T.-Y., Ahyong, S.T. & Yang, C.-H. 2013. Priority of the slipper lobster genus Crenarctus Holthuis, 2002, over Antipodarctus Holthuis, 2002 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae). Zootaxa 3701(4): 471–472 [471].
• Scyllarus aoteanus Powell, A.W.B 1949. New species of Crustacea from New Zealand of the genera Scyllarus and Ctenocheles with notes on Lyreidus tridentatus. Records of the Auckland Museum 3(6): 368–371, pl. 68.

  Type data:

   Holotype AWMM MA76171 ♂, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.

  Type locality references:

  Chan, T.-Y., Ahyong, S.T. & Yang, C.-H. 2013. Priority of the slipper lobster genus Crenarctus Holthuis, 2002, over Antipodarctus Holthuis, 2002 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae). Zootaxa 3701(4): 471–472 [471].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chan, T.-Y., Ahyong, S.T. & Yang, C.-H. 2013. Priority of the slipper lobster genus Crenarctus Holthuis, 2002, over Antipodarctus Holthuis, 2002 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae). Zootaxa 3701(4): 471–472

 

Generic Combinations

• Antipodarctus aoteanus (Powell, 1949).
• Crenarctus crenatus (Whitelegge, 1900).
• Scyllarus crenatus (Whitelegge, 1900).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths of between 7 and 108 m; from reefs, under a damp rock shelf, from under-water cavities, and from mud.

 

General References

Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292 [216]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2012		29-Mar-2012	MOVED
29-Mar-2012		29-Mar-2012	MOVED
		03-Jun-2010	MODIFIED