Species Heteropilumnus fimbriatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pilumnus fimbriatus Milne Edwards, H. 1834. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces Animaux. Paris : Librairie encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 1 xxxv 468 pp. [416].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Australia [as 'Nouvelle-Hollande'].
• Pilumnus pilosus Fulton, S.W. & Grant, F.E. 1906. Some little known Victorian decapod Crustacea, with descriptions of new species.—No. III. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 2 19(1): 5-15 pls 3-5 [7 pl. 4 figs 1-4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM G5607 1♂ 1♀, Western Port, VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rathbun, M.J. 1923. Report on the Crabs obtained by the F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the Coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Report on the Brachyrhyncha, Oxystomata and Dromiacea. pp. 95–156 figs 1–3, pls 16–42 in, Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. "Endeavour", 1909–14. Sydney : Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Trade and Customs. Vol. 5 398 pp. [111]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks and rubble on sheltered reefs, and in mussel clumps on muddy sandflats.

 

General References

Davie, P. 1998. Wild Guide to Moreton Bay. Wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast – Noosa to the Tweed. Brisbane : Queensland Museum xxiv 408 pp. [99] (colour photograph)

Griffin, D.J.G. & Yaldwyn, J.C. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 1957–1963. Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 32: 43-64 figs 1-4, 1 table, 1 map [56]

 

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)