Genus Halicarcinus White, 1846

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halicarcinus White, A. 1846. Notes on four new genera of Crustacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18(118): 176-178 pl. 2 figs 1-3 [178] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cancer planatus Fabricius, 1775 by original designation.
• Liriopea Nicolet, H. 1849. Crustacés. GAY's Historia fisica of politica de Chine. Vol. III pp. 115–318. [158].

  Type species:

   Hymenosoma leachii Guérin, 1838 by subsequent designation, see Rathbun, M.J. 1925. The spider crabs of America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 129: i-xx 1-613, text-figs 1-153 pls 1-283.
• Hymenicus Dana, J.D. 1851. Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Cyclometopa, Edwardsii): Conspectus Crustacearum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descriptsit J.D. Dana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 5: 247-254 [253].

  Type species:

   Hymenicus varius Dana, 1851 by subsequent designation, see Kemp, S. 1917. Notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. X. Hymenosomatidae. Records of the Indian Museum 13(Pt 5 No. 15): 243-379 [246].
• Hombronia Lucas, H. in Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, H. 1853. Zoologie. Voyage au Pôle sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée; exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840 sous les commandement de M. Dumont d'Urville capitaine de vaisseau publié sous les auspices du département de la marine et sous la direction superieure de M. Jacquinot, capitaine de Vaisseau, commandant de La Zelee. III. Paris : Gide et J. Baudry. ii 107 pp. [60].

  Type species:

   Hymenosoma tridentata Jacquinot, 1846 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lucas, J.S. 1980. Spider Crabs of the family Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) with particular reference to Australian species: Systematics and biology. Records of the Australian Museum 33(4): 148-247 figs 1-10 [176]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-Subantarctic, Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	21-Apr-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
05-Jun-2012		05-Jun-2012	MOVED
27-Mar-2012		27-Mar-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		18-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)