Species Dumea latipes (Haswell, 1880)

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Regional Maps

• Paratymolus latipes Haswell, W.A. 1880. On two species of the genus Paratymolus Miers from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5: 302-304 [303 pl. XVI fig. 3-5].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM P91 ♂, Port Jackson, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) AM ♂ 2♀, Port Denison, NE QLD; AM P91 4 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Loh, L.W. & Ng, P.K.L. 1999. A revision of the spider crabs of the genus Paratymolus Miers, 1879, with descriptions of two new genera and six new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 47(2): 365-407 [393].
• Paratymolus latipes quadridentata Baker, W.H. 1906. Notes on South Australian Decapod Crustacea. Part IV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 104-117 pls 1-3 [107 pl. 1 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, SA coast.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Griffin, D.J.G. & Tranter, H. 1986. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. Part VIII. Majidae. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 39(c4): 1-335, 112 text-figs 22 pls [38]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Low intertidal, reef flat, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From seaweed and coral clumps.

 

General References

Loh, L.W. & Ng, P.K.L. 1999. A revision of the spider crabs of the genus Paratymolus Miers, 1879, with descriptions of two new genera and six new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 47(2): 365-407 [393] (redescribed and figured)

 

History of changes

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