History of changes

• Dromiidae De Haan, W. 1833. Crustacea. i-xvii, i-xxxi, ix-xvi, 1-243 pls A-J, in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [ix] [as Dromiacea, corrected to Dromiidae by Ortmann, A.E. 1892. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum auf bewahrten Formen. V. Theil. Hippidea, Dromiidea und Oxystomata. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Systematik, Ökologie, und Geographie der Tiere 6: 532–588 pl. 26 (541, 543); Name No. 356 on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1964. Opinion 688. Dromia Weber, 1795 (Crustacea, Decapoda): designation of a type species under the Plenary Powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 16–19].

  Secondary source:

   Ortmann, A.E. 1892. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum auf bewahrten Formen. V. Theil. Hippidea, Dromiidea und Oxystomata. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 6: 532-588 pl. 26; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1964. Opinion 688. Dromia Weber, 1795 (Crustacea, Decapoda): designation of a type species under the Plenary Powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 16-19.

Introduction

Dromiids are commonly referred to as 'sponge crabs' because of the widespread habit of hollowing out a piece of sponge and carrying it over the top of the carapace and legs so as to be invisible from above. This is done using the last two pairs of legs which are armed with sharp pincer-like claws, and turned-back to be carried dorsally. Species in a few genera are known to carry other items such as dead bivalve shells.

McLay (1993) was the first major revisionary work since that of Ihle (1913). He described 11 new genera, extending the total to 30. McLay (1993) provided a key to all genera and species at the time, and later reviewed the Australian fauna in McLay & Hosie (2022) with the description of one genus, two species and first records for some genera.

Diagnosis

Carapace typically convex and subglobular, variously shaped from ovoid, to subcircular, to pentagonal. Uropods always present (except in Ascidiophilus) in form of dorsal plates, sometimes intercalated laterally, rarely ventral. Lateral linea present. Orbit, antennular and antennal fossae defined. Third maxilliped operculiform. Last two pairs of legs smaller, similar in size, carried subdorsally; armed with a chela formed by a distal propodal spine and dactylus. Abdomen of both sexes of seven segments (including telson), generally without pleurae; males rarely with vestigial pleopods on segments 3–5; first segment of females with pair of uniramous pleopods. Abdomen usually with a retaining mechanism, often involving dorsal uropods. Penis forming a long penial tube. Spermathecal apertures small and rounded.

General References

Ihle, J.E.W. 1913. Die Decapoda Brachyura der Siboga-Expedition. I. Dromiacea. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(b): 1-96 pls 1-4

McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491

McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355

History of changes

• Alainodromia McLay, C.L. 1998. A new genus and species of dromiid crab (Brachyura, Dromiidae) from the Timor Sea, North-west Australia with records of other species from the China Sea. Zoosystema 20: 339–350.

  Type species:

   Alainodromia timorensis McLay, 1998 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

History of changes

• Alainodromia dambimangari McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [305].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM C69970 ♀ (47–49 m, 03-2015), Camden Sound, WA [18°18’50.15”S, 124°06’45.05”E].
  Paratype(s) WAM C69970 ♂ (42 m, 2-03-2016), Eclipse Islands, WA [13°29’37.61”S, 125°51’06.88”E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

History of changes

• Austrodromidia McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [185] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Dromidia australis Rathbun, 1923 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Japan.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

General References

McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355

History of changes

• Dromidia australis 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. [147 pls 39-40 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E3165 ♀, 60 to 80 miles W from Eucla, Great Australian Bight, SA.
  Paratype(s) AM P6200; AM E3164 ♀ juvenile.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 100–220 m.

General References

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. (description and photo)

History of changes

• Dromidia insignis 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. [149 pl. 40 figs 2, 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E6112 ♀, SSW of Mt Cann, VIC.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 128–183 m.

General References

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. (description and photo)

History of changes

• Dromia 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 [755].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P3051, Adelaide, SA.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth to 60 m.

General References

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. (description and photo)

History of changes

• Baccadromia McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [315].

  Type species:

   Dromia (Cryptodromia) bullifera Alcock, 1900 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28)

History of changes

• Baccadromia bullifera Alcock, A. 1900. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 5. Brachyura Primigenia or Dromiacea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 68(2): 123-169 pls 3-5 [143].

  Type locality references:

  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [316].

Generic Combinations

• Baccadromia bullifera (Alcock, 1900).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascar, South Nilanda Atoll, Maldives Archipelago, Cinque Island (Andaman Sea) (type locality), Philippines, Japan, and Chesterfield Ids

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28)

History of changes

• Conchoecetes Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Anomura: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 225-252 [226] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Dromia artificiosa Fabricius, 1798 by monotypy.
• Conchoeodromia Chopra, B. 1934. Further notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum VI. On a new Dromid and a rare Oxystomous Crab from the Hughli River. Records of the Indian Museum 36(4): 477-482 1 pl. [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Conchoeodromia alcocki Chopra, 1934 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

General References

McLay, C.L. & Naruse, T. 2019. Revision of the shell-carrying crab genus Conchoecetes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 4706(1): 1-47 [3]

History of changes

• Conchoecetes andamanicus Alcock, A. 1900. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 5. Brachyura Primigenia or Dromiacea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 68(2): 123-169 pls 3-5 [152].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZSI ZSI-2859/7 ♂, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
  Paralectotype(s) ZSI ZSI-2859/7 1♂, 1♀, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

  Subsequent designation references:

  McLay, C.L. & Naruse, T. 2019. Revision of the shell-carrying crab genus Conchoecetes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 4706(1): 1-47 [8, Fig. 3].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

History of changes

• Dromia artificiosus Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [360].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, not known.
• Dromia conchifera 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 [757].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P3895 2 specimens, Port Denison, QLD.
• Dromia artificiosa Weber, 1795 [nomen nudum].
• Conchoeodromia alcocki Chopra, 1934.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [243]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan).

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths between 9 and 100 m.

General References

Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [243]

Lewinsohn, C. 1984. Dromiidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Madagascar and the Seychelles. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 6(A)1: 89-129 [119]

McLay, C.L. & Naruse, T. 2019. Revision of the shell-carrying crab genus Conchoecetes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 4706(1): 1-47 [5, Fig. 2]

History of changes

• Dromia conchifera 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 [757].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM P3895 ♀, Port Denison and Port Molle, nr Bowen, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AM P3895 ♀, Port Denison and Port Molle, nr Bowen, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  McLay, C.L. & Naruse, T. 2019. Revision of the shell-carrying crab genus Conchoecetes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 4706(1): 1-47 [21, Figs. 11–13].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

History of changes

• Conchoecetes intermedius Lewinsohn, C. 1984. Dromiidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Madagascar and the Seychelles. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 6(A)1: 89-129 [119, fig. 4 a–g].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHNP B6891 ♂, Nosy Komba, Madagascar.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28)

General References

McLay, C.L. & Naruse, T. 2019. Revision of the shell-carrying crab genus Conchoecetes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 4706(1): 1-47 [26, Figs. 14–16]

History of changes

• Conchoecetes pembawa McLay, C.L. & Naruse, T. 2019. Revision of the shell-carrying crab genus Conchoecetes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 4706(1): 1-47 [38, Figs. 22–24].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZRC 2019.1632 ♂, Tokong, Penang I., Malaysia.
  Paratype(s) ZRC 2019.1665 ovig. ♀, Tokong, Penang I., Malaysia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

History of changes

• Cryptodromia Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Anomura: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 225-252 [225] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cryptodromia coronata Stimpson, 1858 by original designation.
• Dromides Borradaile, L.A. 1903. On the genera of the Dromiidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History XI: 297-303 [299] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cryptodromia hilgendorfi De Man, 1888 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [197]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Cryptodromia amboinensis 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].
• Dromia (Cryptodromia) demanii Alcock, 1900.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [318]

Generic Combinations

• Cryptodromia demanii (Alcock, 1901). —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [318]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also Sri Lanka, Mergui Archipelago (Myanmar), Amboina (Indonesia), Philippine Ids and New Caledonia.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Transition (30)

History of changes

• Petalomera fukuii Sakai, T. 1936. Studies on the crabs of Japan. I. Dromiacea. Science Reports of the Tokyo Kyoiku Daigaku. Section B Sect. B 3(Suppl. 1): 1-66, figs 1-13, pls 1-9 [31 pl. 1 fig. 2 text-fig. 8a-c].

  Type data:

   Holotype OCMT ♂ (probable depository institution), Shimoda, Japan.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean (Japan, New Caledonia).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Low intertidal, rocky shore, shallow subtidal.

General References

Davie, P. 1998. Wild Guide to Moreton Bay. Wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast – Noosa to the Tweed. Brisbane : Queensland Museum xxiv 408 pp. [147] (colour photograph and first Australian record from Caloundra, SE QLD)

History of changes

• Cryptodromia hilgendorfi 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] [404-406 pl. 18 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMG ♀, Edam Is., Indonesia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Red Sea to Ellice Islands).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 15–88 m.

General References

Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [243]

McLay, C.L. 1982. Population biology of the sponge-crab Cryptodromia hilgendorfi (Dromiacea) in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Marine Biology, Berlin 70: 317-326 (population biology)

History of changes

• Cryptodromia incisa Henderson, J.R. 1888. Report on the Anomura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 27: 1-221 21 pls [10 pl. 1 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀, Twofold Bay, Australia (Challenger Stn 163A).

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

History of changes

• Dromia (Cryptodromia) tuberculata pileifera Alcock, A. 1900. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 5. Brachyura Primigenia or Dromiacea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 68(2): 123-169 pls 3-5 [141] [as var.].

Generic Combinations

• Cryptodromia tuberculata pileifera (Alcock, 1900) [as var.]. —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [320]
• Cryptodromia tuberculata (Stimpson, 1858) [misidentification]. —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [320]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also India, Singapore, Southeast Asia, and Philippines.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [321]

History of changes

• Cryptodromia tuberculata Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Anomura: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 225-252 [239].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (probably lost), 'Gaspar, Kikaisima and Kagosima' Japan.
• Cryptodromia tuberculata pileifera Alcock, A. 1901. Catalogue of the Indian Decapod Crustacea in the Collection of the Indian Museum. Part I. Brachyura. Fasc. I. Introduction and Dromides or Dromiacea (Brachyura Primigenia). Calcutta : Trustees of the Indian Museum 80 pp. 8 pls. [49].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) IM, Great Coco Is., Andaman reefs.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McNeill, F.A. 1968. Crustacea, Decapoda & Stomatopoda. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 7(1): 1-98 pls 1-2 [40]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

History of changes

• Cryptodromia tumida Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Anomura: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 225-252 [240].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (probably lost), 'Ousima', Japan.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

History of changes

• Cryptodromiopsis Borradaile, L.A. 1903. On the genera of the Dromiidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History XI: 297-303 [299].

  Type species:

   Cryptodromiopsis tridens Borradaile, 1903 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific-Atlantic Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Cryptodromiopsis tridens Borradaile, L.A. 1903. Marine crustaceans. IX. The sponge crabs (Dromiacea). (pp. 574-578, pl. XXIII) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part I) pp. 473–588, pls. XXVI-XXXIV. [578 pl. 33 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, CUMZ, Male and Minikoi Atolls, Maldives.
• Dromidia fenestrata Lewinsohn, C. 1979. Researches on the coast of Somalia. The shore and the dune of Sar Uanle. 23. Porcellanidae (Crustacea Decapoda Anomura). Monitore Zoologico Italiano Suppl. 1(6): 39-57, fig. 1.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, subtidal.

General References

Tweedie, M.W.F. 1950. The fauna of Cocos-Keeling Islands, Brachyura and Stomatopoda. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 22: 105-148, text-figs 1-4 pls 16, 17 [106]

History of changes

• Dromia unidentata Rüppell, E. 1830. Beschreibung und Abbildung von 24 Arten kurzschwänzigen Krabben, als Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte des rothen Meeres. Frankfurt am Main : H.L. Brönner 28 pp. pls 1-6. [16 pl. 4 fig. 2, 2a].

  Type data:

   
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH D35584 1 dry specimen, Red Sea; RMNH D42172 mouthparts of D35584;
  Syntype(s) SMF ♂ ♀, Red Sea; SMF ♂ ♀, Red Sea.
• Dromidia unidentata hawaiiensis Edmondson, C.H. 1922. Hawaian Dromiidae. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum VIII(2): 31-38 pls 1-2 [34 pl. IID fig. 1a-j].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 571 ♂, Waikiki reef, Honolulu.
• Cryptodromia unilobata Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [240 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P15708 ♀, 0.8 km W of Naval Reserve Bank beacon, Moreton Bay, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [188, 192]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, muddy sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 0 to 100 m, mostly less than 50 m.

History of changes

• Desmodromia McLay, C.L. 2001. A new genus and two new species of unusual dromiid crabs (Brachyura: Dromiidae) from northern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 53: 1-8 [2] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Desmodromia griffini McLay, 2001 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic to north-western Australia.

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

History of changes

• Desmodromia griffini McLay, C.L. 2001. A new genus and two new species of unusual dromiid crabs (Brachyura: Dromiidae) from northern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 53: 1-8 [3 figs 1a-d, 3a].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P10443 ♀, Darwin Harbour.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Dredged from 9.2 m depth.

History of changes

• Desmodromia tranterae McLay, C.L. 2001. A new genus and two new species of unusual dromiid crabs (Brachyura: Dromiidae) from northern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 53: 1-8 [3-7 figs 2a-d, 3b].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P9910 ♀, Ninety Mile Beach, between Broome and Wallal, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Dredged from 14.7 m depth.

History of changes

• Dromia Weber, F. 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum entomologian systematicam ill. Fabricii, adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus. Chiloni et Hamburgi : C.E. Bohn viii 171 pp. [92] [Name No. 1568 on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer personatus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1964. Opinion 688. Dromia Weber, 1795 (Crustacea, Decapoda): designation of a type species under the Plenary Powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 16-19.
• Sternodromia Forest, J. 1974. Les Dromies de l'Atlantique oriental. Description de Sternodromia gen. nov. et de deux espèces nouvelles du genre Dromia Weber (Crustacea Decapoda Dromiidae). Annales de l'Institut Océanographique 50(1): 71-123 figs 1-7 pls 1-8 [100].

  Type species:

   Sternodromia spinostris Miers, 1881 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [149]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic, Indian and west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Cancer dormia Linnaeus, C. 1763. Centuria Insectorum, Quam, Praesidae D.D. Car. von Linne, Proposuit Boas Johansson, Calmariensis. pp. 384–415 in Linnaeus, C. Amoenitates Academicae; seu Dissertations variae, physicae, medicae, botanicae, Antehac seorsim editae, nunc collectae and auctae. Paris. Vol. 6. [413].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, not determined.
• Cancer lanosus Rumphius, G.E. 1705. D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, behelzende eene beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te weeten raare Krabben, Kreeften, en diergelyke Zeedieren, als mede allerhande Hoorntjes en Schulpen, die men in d'Amboinsche Zee vindt : daar beneven zommige Mineraalen, Gesteenten, en soorten van Aarde, die in d'Amboinsche, en zommige omleggende Eilanden gevonden worden : Verdeelt in drie bocken, &c. Rumpf, Georg Eberhard, 1627–1702. Amsterdam Vol. 1. 340 pp. 60 pls. [19 pl. 11 fig. 1] [pre-Linnaean name, thereby unavailable].
• Cancer dormitator Herbst, J.F.W. 1790. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Berlin & Stralsund Vol. 1 Pt 8 pp. 239–274 pls 18–21. [published from 1782–1804] [250 pl. 18 fig. 103].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB Herbst 2219 ♂, India; ZMB Herbst 0814 ♀.
• Dromia rumphii Weber, F. 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum entomologian systematicam ill. Fabricii, adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus. Chiloni et Hamburgi : C.E. Bohn viii 171 pp. [92].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, not determined.
• Dromia hirsutissima Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea. U. S. Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia : C. Sherman Vol. 13 1618 pp. [Pt 1: 1–685; Pt 2: 686–1618] [403].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (presumed lost), Hawai'i (as Sandwich Ils) and Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [151]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (east africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Mauritius, Red Sea, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Japan, Hawai'i, New Caledonia).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, rock reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 8–50 m.

History of changes

• Dromidiopsis Borradaile, L.A. 1900. On some Crustaceans from the South Pacific. Part IV. The crabs. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900(3): 568-596 pls 40-42 [572].

  Type species:

   Dromia australiensis Haswell, 1882 by subsequent designation, see McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Dromia australiensis 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 [755].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P3050 (possible syntype AM P3052), Port Denison, QLD, and Port Jackson, NSW.
• Dromidiopsis abrolhensis Montgomery, S.K. 1931. Report on the Crustacea Brachyura of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Abrolhos Islands under the leadership of Professor W.J. Dakin, in 1913; along with other crabs from Western Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 37: 405-465 1 text-fig. pls 24-30 [414].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1931.7.24.10 ♀, Coral Flats, East Wallaby Is., Abrolhos Ils.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [137]

Generic Combinations

• Dromidiopsis australiensis (Haswell, 1882).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Unconfirmed record from Japan.

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, subtidal.

General References

Lewinsohn, C. 1984. Dromiidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Madagascar and the Seychelles. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 6(A)1: 89-129 [99-101] (critical review of previous records and discussion of differences with the closely related D. tridentata)

History of changes

• Dromidiopsis edwardsi Rathbun, M.J. 1919. A new name for a Dromiid crab. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 32: 197 [197] [nom. nov. for D. caput-mortuum H. Milne Edwards, 1837].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP B2 ♀ (Selected as Lectotype by Guinot & Tavares (2003: 63). Specimen dry, with left P4 and both P5 missing, and detached abdomen), locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP B1 ♂ (Specimen dry and much damaged).
• Dromia caputmortuum Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [178] [as Dromia caput-mortuum; junior homonym of Dromia caputmortuum (Linnaeus, 1766), = Dromia personata (Linnaeus, 1758)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Indian Ocean.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [136] (key)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

History of changes

• Epigodromia McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [216] [nom. nov. for Epidromia Kossmann, 1878].

  Type species:

   Epidromia granulata Kossmann, 1878 by original designation.
• Epidromia Kossmann, R. 1878. Kurze Notizen über einige neue Crustaceen sowie über neue Fundorte einiger bereits beschriebenen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 44(1): 251-258 [256] [junior homonym of Epidromia Guenée in Boiduval & Guinée, 1852 (Crustacea)].

  Type species:

   Epidromia granulata Kossmann, 1878 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Cryptodromia areolata Ihle, J.E.W. 1913. Die Decapoda Brachyura der Siboga-Expedition. I. Dromiacea. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(b): 1-96 pls 1-4 [47 pl. II figs 10, 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA ♂, S coast of Timor, E Indonesia.
• Cryptodromia ihlei Balss, H. 1921. Diagnosen neuer Decapoden aus den Sammlungen der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition und der japanischen Ausbeute Dofleins und Haberers. Zoologischer Anzeiger 52: 175-178 [177].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♂ ♀, Sagamibai, Japan.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [216-217]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 30–150 m, 120–350 m in New Caledonia.

History of changes

• Epigodromia rotunda McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also New Caledonia, Ogasawara, Japan and the Indian Ocean

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30)

General References

McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [328]

History of changes

• Dromia sculpta 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 [756].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM P117, Port Jackson, NSW; AM P3897, Port Jackson, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

History of changes

• Epipedodromia André, M. 1932. Crustacés recueillis par M.E. Aubert de la Rüe aux Iles Kergulen, Saint Paul et de la Nouvelle-Amsterdam. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 4: 174-181 [180] [nom. nov. for Platydromia Fulton & Grant, 1902].

  Type species:

   Platydromia thomsoni Fulton & Grant, 1902 by monotypy.
• Platydromia Fulton, S.W. & Grant, F.E. 1902. Some little known Victorian decapod Crustacea, with description of new species No. 1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 2 14: 55-64 pl. 5 [57] [junior homonym of Platydromia Brocchi, 1875 (Crustacea)].

  Type species:

   Platydromia thomsoni Fulton & Grant, 1902 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

General References

McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 (distribution in S Australia only)

History of changes

• Platydromia thomsoni Fulton, S.W. & Grant, F.E. 1902. Some little known Victorian decapod Crustacea, with description of new species No. 1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 2 14: 55-64 pl. 5 [57 pl. 5 figs 1-4].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV ♂ ♀, Western Port, VIC; NMV J219 ♂ ♀, Beaumaris, VIC.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sand bottom, sublittoral.

General References

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. [105] (description and photo)

McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [224]

History of changes

• Foredromia McLay, C.L. 2002. Foredromia rostrata, a New Genus and Species of Sponge Crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Dromiidae) from Southeast Asia. Crustaceana 75: 505-515 [3].

  Type species:

   Foredromia rostrata McLay, 2002 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also Singapore and Indonesia

IMCRA

Southern Province (8)

General References

McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [329]

History of changes

• Fultodromia McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [162].

  Type species:

   Dromia nodipes Guérin-Méneville, 1832 by original designation.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

History of changes

• Dromia nodipes Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1832. Notices sur quelques modifications dans les Notopodes de M. Latreille et etablissement d'un nouveau genre de cette tribu. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris Zool.) (I 25(99): 283-289 [pl. 14 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP B 15 ♀, 'Cap de Bonne Espérence' [Port Esperance, Esperance Bay, or Esperance Point, all in SA].

  Type locality references:

  McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491.
• Cryptodromia depressa 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 [180 pl. 25 fig. 1, 1a].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA, Gulf St Vincent, SA.
• Dromidiopsis michaelseni Balss, H. 1935. Brachyura of the Hamburg Museum Expedition to South-Western Australia, 1905. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 21: 113-151, text-figs 1-3 pl. 13 [113].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH 11578 ♀, Freemantle District: Port Royal, Cockburn Sound.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [162]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

History of changes

• Cryptodromia tumida spinifera Montgomery, S.K. 1931. Report on the Crustacea Brachyura of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Abrolhos Islands under the leadership of Professor W.J. Dakin, in 1913; along with other crabs from Western Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 37: 405-465 1 text-fig. pls 24-30 [413 pl. 29 fig. 3, 3a,b].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, North-West, Abrolhos lls, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, subtidal.

History of changes

• Haledromia McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [158].

  Type species:

   Dromia bicavernosa Zietz, 1888 by original designation.

Distribution

States

South Australia

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

History of changes

• Dromia bicavernosa Zietz, A. 1888. Descriptions of new species of South Australian Crustaceans. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 298-299 figs 1-4 [299 pl. 14 figs 5, 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA C1015 ♂, Hog Bay, Kangaroo Island, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

General References

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. [110] (photograph)

History of changes

• Lamarckdromia Guinot, D. & Tavares, M. 2003. A new subfamilial arrangement for the Dromiidae de Haan, 1833, with diagnoses and descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Zoosystema 25(1): 43-129 [70-74].

  Type species:

   Dromia globosa Lamarck, 1818 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

History of changes

• Lamarckdromia beagle McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [338].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM C15512 ♂ (14-12-1983, coll. D. Jones & W. Humphries.), Mistaken Island, Albany, WA [34°58’00”S, 117°58’00”E].
  Paratype(s) WAM C43596 ♀ (low tide among rocks, coll. L. Wignell, February 1969), Hopetoun, WA; WAM C13503 ♂ (under boulder at low tide, 26-12-1958, coll. L.M. March & B.R. Wilson), NE side of Cape Naturaliste, WA; WAM C1653 ♂ (12-1925, coll. P.J. Hampshire), Nornalup Inlet, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

History of changes

• Dromidia excavata Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Anomura: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 225-252 [239].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (probably lost), Port Jackson, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [333] (resurrected).

Generic Combinations

• Dromia ciliata (Henderson, 1888). —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [333]
• Dromidia excavata (Stimpson, 1858). —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [333]
• Dromidiopsis excavata (Stimpson, 1858). —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [333]
• Dromidiopsis globosa (Lamarck, 1818) [previous synonymy]. —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [333]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Dromia globosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp.

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP B22033 ♂ (The specimen was dry, badly damaged (smashed to pieces). This has been designated as the lectotype by Guinot & Tavares (2003: 70), and is considered to be the type of the species), locality unknown.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cleva, R., Guinot, D. & Albenga, L. 2007. Annotated catalogue of brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) deposited in the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Part 1. Podotremata. Zoosystema 29(2): 1-51 [13].
• Dromia ciliata Henderson, J.R. 1888. Report on the Anomura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 27: 1-221 21 pls [3-5 pl. 1 fig 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, off East Moncoeur Is., Bass Strait (Challenger Stn 162).

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. [146]
• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [137]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth to 180 m.

General References

Guinot, D. & Tavares, M. 2003. A new subfamilial arrangement for the Dromiidae de Haan, 1833, with diagnoses and descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Zoosystema 25(1): 43-129 [70]

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. [110] (description and photo, as Dromidiopsis excavata)

History of changes

• Lauridromia McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [145].

  Type species:

   Dromia intermedia Laurie, 1906 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Dromia intermedia Laurie, R.D. 1906. Report on the Brachyura collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Part V. Supplementary Report. 349-432 figs 1-2 pls 1, 2 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society. [351].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Galle, Sri Lanka.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 7 to 150 m, mostly less than 40 m.

General References

McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [146]

History of changes

• Lewindromia Guinot, D. & Tavares, M. 2003. A new subfamilial arrangement for the Dromiidae de Haan, 1833, with diagnoses and descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Zoosystema 25(1): 43-129.

  Type species:

   Dromia unidentata Rüppell, 1830 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

History of changes

• Dromia unidentata Rüppell, E. 1830. Beschreibung und Abbildung von 24 Arten kurzschwänzigen Krabben, als Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte des rothen Meeres. Frankfurt am Main : H.L. Brönner 28 pp. pls 1-6.

Generic Combinations

• Lewindromia unidentata (Rüppell, 1830).
• Dromidia unidentata (Rüppell, 1830). —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [342]
• Cryptodromiopsis unidentata (Rüppell, 1830). —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [342]
• Cryptodromia unilobata. —
  McLay, C.L., & Hosie, A.M. 2022. The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa 5129: 301-355 [342]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, New Caledonia, Kermadec Islands (New Zealand), Tonga, Hawaii and Easter Island.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Metadromia McLay, C.L. 2009. New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochina A.Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae). Zootaxa 2111: 1-66 [15].

  Type species:

   Cryptodromia wilsoni Fulton & Grant, 1902 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

History of changes

• Cryptodromia wilsoni Fulton, S.W. & Grant, F.E. 1902. Some little known Victorian decapod Crustacea, with description of new species. No. 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 2 15: 59-68 pls 8-10 [61 pl. 9].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV J214 ♂ ♀, Port Phillip Heads, VIC.
• ?Dromia pseudogibbosa Parisi, B. 1915. Decapodi Giaponnesi del Museo di Milano II. Dromiacea. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali 54: 102-116. 3 pls [102, pl. 2, figs 1, 2].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 2009. New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochina A.Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae). Zootaxa 2111: 1-66 [17-19]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific (north to Philippines, east to French Polynesia, south to New Zealand), Indian and south Atlantic Oceans, in both temperate and tropical waters.

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 420 to 520 m.

History of changes

• Paradromia Balss, H. 1921. Diagnosen neuer Decapoden aus den Sammlungen der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition und der japanischen Ausbeute Dofleins und Haberers. Zoologischer Anzeiger 52: 175-178 [178].

  Type species:

   Cryptodromia japonica Henderson, 1888 by subsequent designation, see McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [163].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Cryptodromia japonica Henderson, J.R. 1888. Report on the Anomura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 27: 1-221 21 pls [6 pl. 1 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, off Yokoska [Yokohama], Japan.
• Cryptodromia stearnsi Ives, J.E. 1891. Echinoderms and arthropods from Japan. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1891(II): 210-223, 12 pls [212 pl. 11 figs 1-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 1 specimen, Japan.
• Cryptodromia canaliculata ophryoessa Ortmann, A.E. 1892. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum auf bewahrten Formen. V. Theil. Hippidea, Dromiidea und Oxystomata. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 6: 532-588 pl. 26 [545].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MS 3♂, Tokyo Bay, Japan.
• Cryptodromia asiatica Parisi, B. 1915. Decapodi Giaponnesi del Museo di Milano II. Dromiacea. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali 54: 102-116. 3 pls [105 pl. 2 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MSNM 1078 2♂, Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan; MSNM 1079 3♀, Japan; MSNM 195 1♀, Japan; MSNM 196 1♀, Japan.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [163]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia).

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy or muddy substrates, 30–50 m depth.

History of changes

• Petalomera Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Anomura: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 225-252 [226].

  Type species:

   Petalomera granulata Stimpson, 1858 by monotypy.

Introduction

This genus was recently reviewed by McLay & Ng (2007).

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

General References

McLay, C.L. & Ng, P.K.L 2007. Revision of the Indo-West Pacific sponge crabs of the genus Petalomera Stimpson, 1858 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Dromiidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(1): 107-120

History of changes

• Petalomera pulchra Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [260 pl. 27 fig. A].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1882.7 ♀, Prince of Wales Channel, Torres Strait, N QLD.

  Secondary source:

   McLay, C.L. & Ng, P.K.L 2007. Revision of the Indo-West Pacific sponge crabs of the genus Petalomera Stimpson, 1858 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Dromiidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(1): 107-120.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [166]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Most specimens are from northern Australia (east and west coast). Also one specimen reported from Aru island, Moluccas, Indonesia by Ihle (1913)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 25 to 86 m.

History of changes

• Stimdromia McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [167].

  Type species:

   Dromia lateralis Gray, 1831 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Cryptodromia lamellata Ortmann, A.E. 1894. Crustaceen. In, Semon, R. Zoologische Forshungreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 8(1): 1-80 pls 1-3 [34 pl. 2 fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Thursday Island, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

(Torres Strait record requires confirmation).

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones, depth to 120 m.

History of changes

• Dromia lateralis Gray, J.E. 1831. Description of a new genus and some undescribed species of Crustacea. Zoological Miscellany 1: 39-40 [40].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH (probably lost), Australia.
• Dromia verrucosipes White, 1847 [nomen nudum].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand.

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, low intertidal, sand or shell bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones, usually associated with sponges or ascidians, depth to 220 m.

General References

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. (reproduction and development with photo)

History of changes

• Dynomenidae Ortmann, A.E. 1892. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum auf bewahrten Formen. V. Theil. Hippidea, Dromiidea und Oxystomata. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 6: 532-588 pl. 26 [541].

Introduction

Dynomenids are a small group of 'primitive' crabs living in tropical and warmer parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans (McLay 1999). They are immediately recognisable by their broad, triangular, frontal margins. Most are shallow water reef-dwelling forms, although one species has been recorded to 540 metres depth. McLay (1999) revised the family and provided keys to genera and species, as well as extensive discussion on morphology, evolutionary relationships, and biology.

Diagnosis

Carapace typically wider than long, sometimes longer than wide, moderately convex; surface smooth spinous or areolate, usually densely covered in setae; lateral borders distinct, armed with teeth. Front broadly triangular, continuous, unarmed; frontal groove well marked, split posteriorly; cervical, postcervical, and branchial grooves present. Lateral linea present. Orbital, antennular and antennal fossae defined. Antennule can be concealed inside orbit at base of eyestalk. Third maxillipeds operculiform; completely covering buccal cavern; separated at bases by plate at same level as sternum; basis and ischium of endopod fused, but joint marked by shallow groove. Sternal sutures 7/8 of female end well apart on low tubercles behind bases of second walking legs. Chelipeds equal, stout; fingers hollowed and dented at tip. Last pair of legs reduced, dactyl rudimentary, with obsolete subchelate mechanism. Gills usually 19 (including six podobranchs) plus seven epipods; gill structure phyllobranchiate, but plates variable in shape with different numbers of epibranchial lobes. Abdomen 7-segmented (including telson), without pleurae; both sexes with five pairs of pleopods, first pair vestigial in female, last three pairs rudimentary in male. Telson much wider than long; retaining mechanism for abdomen usually present, but not effective. Uropods present as well-developed dorsal plates. Spermathecal apertures small and rounded, at level of genital openings. Coxa of P5 strongly modified by the penis. Male first gonopod with apical plate. (After McLay 1999).

General References

McLay, C.L. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of the family Dynomenidae. pp. 427-569 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588

History of changes

• Dynomeninae Ortmann, A.E. 1892. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum auf bewahrten Formen. V. Theil. Hippidea, Dromiidea und Oxystomata. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 6: 532-588 pl. 26.

  Type genus:

   Dynomene Desmarest, 1823.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Guinot, D. 2008. A re-evaluation of the Dynomenidae Ortmann, 1892 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata), with the recognition of four subfamilies. Zootaxa 1850: 1-26

History of changes

• Dynomene Desmarest, A.G. 1823. Crustacés Malacostracés. In, Levrault, F.G. & Le Normant (eds) Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles. Vol. 4. pp. 138-425, atlas, pls 1-58 [422] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Dynomene hispida Guérin-Méneville, 1832 by subsequent monotypy, see Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1832. Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux, avec un text descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traitès de zoologie. 450 plates in 45 livraisons. Crustacea. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 22 48 pp., 36 pls.
• Maxillothrix Stebbing, T.R.R. 1921. South African Crustacea (Part XI of S.A. Crustacea, for the Marine Investigations in South Africa). Annals of the South African Museum 18(4): 453-468 pls 13-20 [456].

  Type species:

   Maxillothrix actaeiformis Stebbing, 1921 by monotypy (= Dynomene pilumnoides Alcock, 1900).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of the family Dynomenidae. pp. 427-569 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588 [471]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific to Hawai'i, off West Africa.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

History of changes

• Cancer hispida Latreille, P. in Milbert, J. (ed.) 1812. Voyage pittoresque à l'Ile-de-France, au Cap de Bonne-Espérance et à l'Ile de Ténériffe. Paris : Le Normant Vol. 2.
• Dynomena latreillii Eydoux, F. & Souleyet, L.F.A. 1842. Crustacés. pp. 219-272 in Eydoux, F. (ed.). Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette 'la Bonite', commandée par M. Vaillant. Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand Vol. 1(2). [239 pl. 3 figs 3-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP B-235, Hawai'i (as Sandwich Is.).
• Dynomene granulobata Dai, A.-Y., Yang, S.-L. & Lan, J. 1981. On the crabs of the Xisha Islands — Dynomene. Nanhai Studia Marina Sinica 2: 117-124 [119 figs 10-14].

  Type data:

   Holotype PMAM 65079 ♂, Dongdao, Xisha Islands, South China Sea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of the family Dynomenidae. pp. 427-569 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588 [473]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Tasman Sea (Elizabeth Reef, Middleton Reef); Indo-west central Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 24 m depth.

History of changes

• Dynomene pilumnoides Alcock, A. 1900. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 5. Brachyura Primigenia or Dromiacea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 68(2): 123-169 pls 3-5 [133].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM 9000/6 ♂, off Kiltan Island, Laccadive Islands.
• Maxillothrix actaeiformis Stebbing, T.R.R. 1921. South African Crustacea (Part XI of S.A. Crustacea, for the Marine Investigations in South Africa). Annals of the South African Museum 18(4): 453-468 pls 13-20 [457 pl. 14].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1928.12.1.10 2 specimens, off coast of Natal, north of Durban;
  Status unknown, SAM A839 2♂ ♀, off coast of Natal, 12.6 km NW by N of Umhlangakulu River, north of Durban.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of the family Dynomenidae. pp. 427-569 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588 [494]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread Indo-west Pacific.

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, coral reef, rock bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From 18–400 m depth.

History of changes

• Dynomene praedator Milne Edwards, A. 1879. Memoire sur les Crustacés Decapodes du genre Dynomene. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris Zool.) (6 8(art. 3): 1-11 pls 12-14 [8 pl. 14 figs 20-26].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP (probably lost), New Caledonia.
  Paratype(s) MNHP B 7029 ♀, New Caledonia.
• Dynomene sinense Chen, H. 1979. Two new species of crabs from the Xisha Islands, Guangdong Province, China. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica 10: 77-81 [79 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype PMAM IOAS-C00801 ♀, Shenhang Dao, Xisha Islands, South China Sea.
  Paratype(s) PMAM IOAS-C00802 ♂, Shi Dao, Xisha Islands, South China Sea.
• Dynomene tenuilobata Dai, A.-Y., Yang, S.-L. & Lan, J. 1981. On the crabs of the Xisha Islands — Dynomene. Nanhai Studia Marina Sinica 2: 117-124 [118 figs 5-9].

  Type data:

   Holotype PMAM 74073 ♂, Jinyindao, Xisha Islands, South China Sea.
• Dynomene huangluensis Dai, A.-Y., Cai, Y. & Yang, S.-L. 1996. New species and records of crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Nansha Islands, China. Studies on the Marine Fauna and Flora and Biogeography of the Nansha Islands and Neighbouring Waters 2: 234-257 [234 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) PMAM 4♂ ♀, Nansha Islands, South China Sea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of the family Dynomenidae. pp. 427-569 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588 [481]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 50 m depth.

History of changes

• Hirsutodynomene McLay, C.L. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of the family Dynomenidae. pp. 427-569 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588 [504] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Dynomene spinosa Rathbun, 1911 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Including Tasman Sea (Elizabeth Reef, Middleton Reef)

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

History of changes

• Dynomene spinosa Rathbun, M.J. 1911. Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner. Vol. III. No. XI. Marine Brachyura. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Zool. 14(2): 191-261, text-figs 1, 2 pls 15-20 [196 pl. 17 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 41048 ♂, Coetivy Island, Indian Ocean [7°08.00'S 56°16.00'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Including Tasman Sea (Elizabeth Reef, Middleton Reef); widespread Indo-west Pacific.

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 15 m depth.

History of changes