Species Eodemus hastatoides (Fabricius, 1798)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Portunus hastatoides Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [368].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC 7 specimens, 'In Oceano Indico' (the collector, I.K. Daldorff, obtained his material mainly from Tranquebar, south-east India).
• Portunus hastatoides Weber, 1795 [nomen nudum].
• Neptunus (Hellenus) hastatoides unidens Laurie, R.D. 1906. Report on the Brachyura collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Part V. Supplementary Report. 349-432 figs 1-2 pls 1, 2 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society. [414].

 

Generic Combinations

• Xiphonectes hastatoides (Fabricius, 1798). —
  Spiridonov, V.A., Neretina, T.V. & Schepetov, D. 2014. Morphological characterization and molecular phylogeny of Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea Brachyura): Implications for understanding evolution of swimming capacity and revision of the family-level classification. Zoologischer Anzeiger 253: 404–429
• Eodemus hastatoides (Fabricius, 1798). —
  Koch, M., Spiridonov, V.A. & Ďuriš, Z. 2022. Revision of the generic system for the swimming crab subfamily Portuninae (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) based on molecular and morphological analyses. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197(1): 127–175

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan, Philippines south to Chesterfield Reefs, Coral Sea).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), 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, continental shelf.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy to muddy and shell bottoms, to 205 m but typically less than 80 m depth.

 

General References

Stephenson, W. & Campbell, B. 1959. The Australian Portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae) III. The genus Portunus. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10(1): 84-124 pls 1-5 [101]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-May-2023	PORTUNIDAE Rafinesque, 1815	03-May-2023	MODIFIED
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)