Genus Hemipagurus Smith, 1881
- Hemipagurus Smith, S.I. 1881. Recent dredging by the United-States Fish Commission off the South Coast of New England, with some notice of the Crustacea obtained. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 7: 143-146 [143] [gender masculine].
Type species:
Hemipagurus gracilis Smith, 1881 by subsequent designation, see Asakura, A. 2001. A revision of the hermit crabs of the genera Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Hemipagurus Smith from the Indo-West Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 823-891 figs 1-51 [826].
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
East Atlantic Ocean (off eastern U.S.A.) and Indo-west Pacific Oceans (west Indian Ocean and Red Sea to Japan and east to Hawai'i).
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)
General References
Asakura, A. 2001. A revision of the hermit crabs of the genera Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Hemipagurus Smith from the Indo-West Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 823-891 figs 1-51 [830] (resurrected Hemipagurus Smith from the synonymy of Catapagurus; provided a key to Indo-west Pacific species)
History of changes
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| 24-Apr-2012 | 24-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |