Species Homoioplax haswelli (Miers, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudorhombila haswelli Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [241 pl. 24 fig. B].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Arafura Sea.
• Pilumnoplax inequalis Yokoya, Y. 1933. On the distribution of decapod crustaceans inhabiting the continental shelf around Japan, chiefly based upon the materials collected by S.S. Sôyô-Maru, during the years 1923–1930. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Imperial University of Tokyo 12(1): 1-226 text-figs 1-71 tables 1-4 [194 text-fig. 63].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Japan.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Tokyo : Kodansha 3 vols xxix 773 pp. [English vol.]; 1–16, 251 pls [Plates vol.]; 461 pp. [Japanese vol.]. [540]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific (from Madras Strait, India, to Japan).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, soft bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand or sandy-mud substrates, 35–100 m depth.

 

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. [374] (authorship of this species has often been attributed to Rathbun (1914), but Miers (1884) originally identified his specimens from the Arafura Sea, with reserve, as 'Pseudorhombilia vestita (de Haan), var, sexdentata, Haswell' thus subordinating Haswell's Eucrate sexdentata to a subspecies of Pseudorhombila vestita. However, he suggested that his specimens might be distinct and suggested the name Pseudorhombilia haswelli to be used if this should prove to be so. Therefore, authorship must be given to Miers (1884))

 

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)