Species Ibacus peronii Leach, 1815

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ibacus peronii Leach, W.E. 1815. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals … illustrated with coloured figures drawn from nature by R.P. Nodder &c. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 2 pp. 145-154 pls 116-120. [published 1816] [152 pl. 119].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP Pa146, Sea Elephant Bay, King Island, Bass Strait, Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Brown, D.E. & Holthuis, L.B. 1998. The Australian species of the genus Ibacus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae), with the description of a new species and addition of new records. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 72(10): 113-141 figs 1-3 pls 1-9 [134].
• Scyllarus incisus Leach, W.E. 1815. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals … illustrated with coloured figures drawn from nature by R.P. Nodder &c. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 2 pp. 145-154 pls 116-120. [published 1816].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Australia (as New Holland).

  Type locality references:

  Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292.
• Phyllosoma duperreyi Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1829. Crustacés, Arachnides et Insectes. In, Duperrey, L.I. (ed.). (1826–1838) Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie 2(1) and Atlas (Reptiles 7 pls). Paris : Arthus Bertrand.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP (no longer extant), Port Jackson, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292 [199, 205]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

North as far as Moreton Bay on the east coast.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Trade

commercially important in NSW, Victoria and WA; mainly taken as bycatch of prawn and scallop fisheries

Extra Ecological Information

Found on soft substrates, depth 4 to 250 m.

 

General References

Stewart, J., Kennelly, S.J. & Hoegh-Guldberg, O. 1997. Size at sexual maturity and the reproductive biology of two species of scyllarid lobster from New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. Crustaceana 70(3): 344-367 [344]

Stewart, J. & Kennelly, S.J. 1997. Fecundity and egg-size of the Balmain bug Ibacus peronii Leach, 1815) (Decapoda, Scyllaridae) off the east coast of Australia. Crustaceana 70(2): 191-197 figs 1-3 [191]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	14-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
22-Dec-2016	DECAPODA Latreille, 1803	14-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
29-Mar-2012		29-Mar-2012	MOVED
		03-Jun-2010	MODIFIED