Species Entomonyx spinosus Miers, 1884

Museums

Regional Maps

• Entomonyx spinosus Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [526 pl. 47 fig. B].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 215 ♂ ♀, Providence Reef and Providence Island; BMNH 217 1♀, Providence Reef and Providence Island.
• Entomonyx nummifer Alcock, A. 1895. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 1. The Brachyura Oxyrhyncha. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 64(Pt 2 No. 2): 157-291 pls 3-5 [255 pl. 4 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) IM (probable depository institution), Andaman Sea and off Sri Lanka;
  Status unknown.

 

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.]. [253]

 

Distribution

States

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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From sponge and Bryozoa, sandy mud substrates, depth 60–150 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
		24-Jan-2011	MODIFIED