Species Ebalia tuberculosa (A. Milne Edwards, 1873)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Persephona tuberculosa Milne Edwards, A. 1873. Description de quelques Crustacés nouveaux ou peu connus provenant du Musée de M.C. Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 1(4): 77-88 pls 12, 13 [86].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MGH, Bass Strait.
• Phlyxia granulosa Haswell, W.A. 1879. Contribution to a monograph of Australian Leucosiidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 44-60 [54 pl. 6 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P40832, outside Sydney Heads, NSW.
• Ebalia salamensis Doflein, F. 1904. Brachyura. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 6: xiv 68 figs Atlas 58 pls 314 pp. [47 pl. 26 figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZSMB (probable depository institution), off Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa.
• Nursia scandens Stebbing, T.R.R. 1920. South African Crustacea, (Part X of S.A. Crustacea, for the Marine Investigations in South Africa). Annals of the South African Museum 17(4): 231-272 pls 18-27 [247 pl. CVIa].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAM A4049, Cove Rock, South Africa.
• Nursia postulans 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 [461 pl. CXIII].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAM A502, Cape Natal, South Africa.
• Ebalia japonica Rathbun, M.J. 1932. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Japanese crabs. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 45: 29-38 [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 65059 ♂, off Niigata Light, Japan.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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.]. [71]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west-central Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan, east to Hawai'i, and south to New Zealand).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to mud substrates, depth 50 to 539 m

 

General References

Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [57] (remarks on variation and distribution)

 

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
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