Species Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Herbst, 1783)

Museums

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• Cancer tenuicrustatus Herbst, J.F.W. 1783. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Zurich : Joh. Casper Fuessly Vol. 1 Pts 2–5 pp. 87–182 pls 2–9. [3 volumes and an Atlas published from 1782–1804] [113 pl. 3 figs 33, 34].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMB (not found, thus presumed lost, see Sakai, K. 1999. J. F. W. Herbst-Collection of decapod Crustacea of the Berlin Zoological Museum, with remarks on certain species. Naturalists, Tokushima Biological Laboratory, Shikoku University 6: 1–45 pls 1–21 [41]), locality unknown.
• Grapsus hirtus Randall, J.W. 1840. Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J.K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the Collection of the Academy. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8(1): 106-147 pls 3-7 [124].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP CA2805 ♂, Hawai'ian Islands (as Sandwich Islands).
• Grapsus gracilipes Milne Edwards, H. 1853. Mémoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris Zoology 3 20: 163-228 pls 6-11 [168].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Taoranne, China.
• Grapsus pharaonis Milne Edwards, H. 1853. Mémoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris Zoology 3 20: 163-228 pls 6-11 [168].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Red Sea.
• Grapsus rudis Milne Edwards, H. 1853. Mémoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris Zoology 3 20: 163-228 pls 6-11 [168].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Hawai'ian Islands (as Sandwich Islands).
• Grapsus (Goniopsis) flavipes 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 [66].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MMUS C2928 ♂, Cape of Good Hope.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ng, P.K.L. & Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the Macleay Collection, University of Sydney, Australia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49(1): 83-100 [94].
• Cancer ballantei Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp. [174].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banerjee, S.K. 1960. Biological Results of the Snellius Expedition. XVIII. The Genera Grapsus, Geograpsus and Metopograpsus (Crustacea Brachyura). Temminckia 10: 132-199 figs 1-6 [134]
• Ng, P.K.L. & Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the Macleay Collection, University of Sydney, Australia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49(1): 83-100 [97] (identity of G. flavipes)
• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56 [45 (Table 1), 50]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Ashmore Reef, and Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan and east to Hawai'i).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, rocky shore, supratidal.

Extra Ecological Information

On rocks along the seaward reef and on stony or pebbly beaches.

 

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)