Species Gonodactylaceus falcatus (Forsskål, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer falcatus Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [96].

  Type data:

   Neotype RMNH S874 ♀, Djeddah, Saudia Arabia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Manning, R.B. & Lewinsohn, C. 1981. Selection of a neotype for Cancer falcatus Forskål, 1775 (Stomatopoda). Crustaceana 41(3): 314-316.
• Gonodactylus chiragra mutatus Lanchester, W.F. 1903. Marine crustaceans, VIII: Stomatopoda, with an account of the varieties of Gonodactylus chiragra. (pp. 444-459, pl. XXIII) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being an account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. I(Part IV) pp. 347–470, pls. XVIII-XXV. [450] [as Gonodactylus chiragra var. mutatus].

  Type data:

   Lectotype UMZC ♀, Furnadu Velu, Miladummadulu Atoll, Maldive Islands.
  Paralectotype(s) UMZC 4♂ 1♀.
• Gonodactylus glaber rotundus Borradaile, L.A. 1907. Stomatopoda from the western Indian Ocean. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of J. Stanley Gardiner. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12(Zool.): 209-216 pl. 22 [211 pl. 22 fig. 2] [as Gonodactylus glaber var. rotundus].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UMZC 2♂, Coetivy, Seychelle Ils and Zanzibar.
• Gonodactylus insularis Manning, R.B. & Reaka, M.L. 1982. Gonodactylus insularis, a new stomatopod crustacean from Enewetak Atoll, Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95(2): 347-351 [347-351 figs 1, 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 135632 ♀, Kidrenen Is., Eniwetok [11°22'50"N 162°10'30"E].
  Paratype(s) USNM 139883 2♀; USNM 189383 3♂ 10♀; USNM 189384 6♂ 5♀.
• Gonodactylus siamensis Manning, R.B. & Reaka, M.L. 1981. Gonodactylus siamensis, a new stomatopod crustacean from Thailand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94(2): 479-482 [190-200 figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 1891673 ♀, Sattahip, Gulf of Thailand [12°40'N 100°52'E].
  Paratype(s) USNM 181674 10♂ 12♀.
• Gonodactylaceus gravieri Manning, R.B. 1995. Stomatopod Crustacea of Vietnam: The Legacy of Raoul Serène. Crustacean Research Spec. No. 4: ii-ix 1-339 [42, 43, 46-48 fig. 13].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP St 68 ♂, Poulo Condore, Vietnam.
  Paratype(s) USNM 266611 ♀.
• Gonodactylus aloha Manning, R.B. & Reaka, M.L. 1981. Gonodactylus aloha, a new stomatopod crustacean from the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Crustacean Biology 1(2): 190-200 figs 1-3.

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 113724 ♀, Oahu, Hawai'ian Islands.
  Paratype(s) USNM 124734 ♂; USNM 124735 ♀; USNM 124736 ♀; USNM 169595 ♀; BPBM 10 ♂ 14♀; USNM 181675 175 specimens; USNM 181522 ♂ 3♀.
• Gonodactylus takedai Moosa, M.K. 1989. Some stomatopods from Japanese waters, with description of a new species. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 15(4): 223-229 [227].

  Type data:

   Holotype NSMT Cr9332 ♂, Miyanohama, Chichi-jima, Ogasawara Ils.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Revision of the Australian Stomatopod Crustacea. Records of the Australian Museum Suppl. 26: 1-326 [35-38 fig. 17]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Middleton and Elizabeth Reef, Indo-west Pacific (western Indian Ocean, Red Sea to Indonesia, New Caledonia, Japan and Hawai'i).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, intertidal, predator, rock reef, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually under boulders and coral rubble, or in crevices in rock and sponge.

 

General References

Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Revision of the Australian Stomatopod Crustacea. Records of the Australian Museum Suppl. 26: 1-326 [35-38 fig. 17]

Manning, R.B. 1995. Stomatopod Crustacea of Vietnam: The Legacy of Raoul Serène. Crustacean Research Spec. No. 4: ii-ix 1-339 [42]

 

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