Species Dromia dormia (Linnaeus, 1763)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, rock reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 8–50 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)