Species Eriphia sebana (Shaw & Nodder, 1803)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer sebana Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. 1803. Vivarium Naturae, sive rerum naturalium, variae et vividae icones, ad ipsam naturam depictae et descriptae. Crustacea. The Naturalist's Miscellany, or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects, Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature. Vol. 15. London. [unnumbered pages] pls 589–612. [591].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (presumed lost, America was originally noted as type locality, but this is assumed to be erroneous, as no species resembling Eriphia sebana has subsequently been collected from that continent), Indo-west Pacific, exact locality unknown.
• Eriphia laevimana Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1829. Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux, avec un text descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traitès de zoologie. Paris : J.B. Baillière 450 plates in 45 livraisons. Crustacea: 36 pls, 48 pp. [pl. 3 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mauritius.
• Gecarcinus anisocheles Latreille, P.A. 1818. Crustacés. In, Crustacés, Arachnides et Insectes. Atlas. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois régnes de la nature. 1-39 pls 268-397 [pl. 269, fig. 1].
• Eriphia fordii MacLeay, W.S. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. pp. 53–71 pl. 3 in, Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". London. 75 pp. 4 pls [60].
• Eriphia trapeziformis Hess, W. 1865. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Decapoden-Krebse Ost-Australiens. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 31: 127-173 pls 6-7 [135].
• Cancer tearlachi Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp. [176, 177].
• Eriphia sebana hawaiiensis Ward, M. 1939. The Brachyura of the Second Templeton Crocker-American Museum Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. American Museum Novitates No. 1049: 1-15 figs 1-17 [11].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 7615 ♂, Honolulu, Hawaii; purchased in the native market.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda—Anomura, Brachyura. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiv 641 pp. [175] (following unpublished data, part of a revision of the genus by S.K. Koh & P.K.L. Ng)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, reef flat, rock platforms, rocky shore.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
27-Mar-2012		27-Mar-2012	MOVED
27-Mar-2012		27-Mar-2012	MOVED
27-Mar-2012		27-Mar-2012	MOVED
27-Mar-2012		27-Mar-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		13-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)