Species Daira perlata (Herbst, 1790)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer perlatus 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] [265 pl. 21 fig. 122].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMB (not found by Sakai, K. 1999. J. F. W. Herbst-Collection of decapod Crustacea of the Berlin Zoological Museum, with remarks on certain species. Naturalists, Tokushima Biological Laboratory, Shikoku University 6: 1–45 pls 1–21), Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

  Type locality references:

  MacLeay, W.S. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. pp. 53–71 pl. 3 in, Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". London. 75 pp. 4 pls.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, 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.]. [521]

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

 

History of changes

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