Species Dorippe quadridens (Fabricius, 1793)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer quadridens Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2 viii 519 pp. [464].

  Type data:

   
  Paralectotype(s) (CHECK);
  Syntype(s) UZM 3 specimens, Tranquebar, India; RMNH D43031 ♀, Bengalen [Tranquebar], India.

  Type locality references:

  Fransen, C.H.J.M., Holthuis, L.B. & Adema, J.P.H.M. 1997. Type-catalogue of the Decapod Crustacea in the collections of the National Natuurhistorisch Museum, with appendices of pre-1900 collectors and material. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 311: i-xvi, 1-344 [82].
• Dorippe rissoana Desmarest, A.-G. 1817. Crustacés fossiles. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'economie rurale et domestique, à la médicine, etc. Vol. 8 pp. 495–519. [510] [nom. nud.].
• Dorippe nodosa Desmarest, A.-G. 1817. Crustacés fossiles. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'economie rurale et domestique, à la médicine, etc. Vol. 8 pp. 495–519. [510] [nom. nud.].
• Dorippe atropos 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. [245].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, `Océan Indien'.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. & Manning, R.B. 1990. Crabs of the Subfamily Dorippinae MacLeay, 1838, from the Indo-West Pacific region (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dorippidae). Researches on Crustacea. Special Number 3. 151 pp. [18]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, mud bottom, rock bottom, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Oyster banks, bottoms often with shell, coral rubble, rocks, and weed, often, but not always, carry a variety of objects on their backs for camouflage, including shells, mangrove leaves, sponges, echinoids, and even jellyfish, depths from 1–73 m, but mostly less than 30 m, and with one record of 415 m.

 

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)