Species Eumedonus niger H. Milne Edwards, 1834
- Eumedonus niger Milne Edwards, H. 1834. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces Animaux. Paris : Librairie encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 1 xxxv 468 pp. [350].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP B646S ♂, 'China coast'. - Gonatonotus crassimanus Haswell, W.A. 1880. On the Australian Brachyura Oxyrhyncha. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 431-458 pls 25-27 [455 pl. 26 fig. 4].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM G5172 (invalid assumption of holotype status by Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49–90 figs 1–3 [74]), Port Jackson, NSW. Type data:
Syntype(s) AM E4445 ♂, 40 km SE of Double Island Point, QLD; USNM 53433 ♂.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Chia, D.G.B. & Ng, P.K.L. 2000. A revision of Eumedonus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 and Gonatonotus White, 1847 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Eumedonidae), two genera of crabs symbiotic with sea urchins. Journal of Natural History 34: 15-56 [18] (also redescribed and figured)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
China and Japan.
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, reef, subtidal, symbiotic.
Extra Ecological Information
Associated with echinoids.
History of changes
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04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |