Species Hexapus sexpes (Fabricius, 1798)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer sexpes Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [344].

  Type data:

   Holotype UZM ♂, 'India orientali' [eastern India].
• Alpheus sexpes Weber, 1795 [nomen nudum].

Introduction

Rahayu & Ng (2014) argue that the Australian populations usually assigned to Hexapus sexpes cannot be determined unambiguously due to the lack of reliable descriptions or pictures

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to mud bottoms, probable commensal of annelids, depths to 50 m.

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda—Anomura, Brachyura. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiv 641 pp. [232]

Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [85]

Rahayu, D.L. & Ng, P.K.L. 2014. New genera and new species of Hexapodidae (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the Indo-West Pacific and east Atlantic. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62: 396–483 [400]

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