Species Gomeza bicornis Gray, 1831

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gomeza bicornis Gray, J.E. 1831. Description of a new genus and some undescribed species of Crustacea. Zoological Miscellany 1: 39-40 [39].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Corystes (Oeidea) vigintispinosa De Haan, W. 1833. Crustacea. i-xvii, i-xxxi, ix-xvi, 1-243 pls A-J, in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [44 pl. 2 fig. 5] [as C. (Oeidea) 20-spinosa].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH D800 1 specimen (mouthparts of lectotype are registered as RMNH D42182), Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH D800 1 specimen, Japan; RMNH D42181 3 dry specimens, Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Yamaguchi, T. & Baba, K. 1993. Crustacean specimens collected in Japan by Ph.F. von Siebold and H. Bürger and held by the National Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden and other museums. pp. 145-563 in Yamaguchi, T. (ed.). Ph.F. von Siebold and Natural History of Japan Crustacea. Japan : Shimoda Printing Inc. [375].

 

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.]. [304]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific (Sri Lanka, Singapore, Indonesia, north to Japan).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, burrower, coral reef, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

100 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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)