Species Hippa pacifica (Dana, 1852)
Pacific Mole Crab, Pacific Sand Crab
- Remipes pacifica Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea, Part 1. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(1): 1-685 [407 pl. 25 fig. 7].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MCZ 1406 ♀, Hawai'ian Islands (as Sandwich Islands); USNM (presumed lost), Fiji.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Wide-ranging, Tanzania eastward to Australia, north to China and across to Hawai'ian Islands, also Gulf of California, Panama, Socorro, Galápagos Islands.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)
Ecological Descriptors
Burrower, littoral, sand bottom.
General References
Boyko, C.B. & Harvey, A.W. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Albuneidae and Hippidae of the tropical Indo-West Pacific region. pp. 379-406 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588 [396] (figures and distribution)
Efford, I.E. 1972. The distribution of the sand crabs, Hippa strigillata (Stimpson) and Hippa pacifica (Dana) in the eastern Pacific Ocean (Decapoda, Anomura). Crustaceana 23(2): 119-122
Haig, J. 1974. A review of the Australian crabs of family Hippidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(1): 175-189 figs 1-5 pl. 6 [181]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 24-Apr-2012 | 24-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |