History of changes

• Iphiculoida Alcock, A. 1896. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2. The Brachyura Oxystoma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 65(Pt 2 No. 2): 134-296 pls 6-8 [167].

History of changes

• Iphiculus Adams, A. & White, A. 1848. Crustacea. Part I. 1-66 pls I-XIII in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1843–1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [57].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28)

History of changes

• Iphiculus spongiosus Adams, A. & White, A. 1848. Crustacea. Part I. 1-66 pls I-XIII in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1843–1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [57].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf.

History of changes

• Nursioida Alcock, A. 1896. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2. The Brachyura Oxystoma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 65(Pt 2 No. 2): 134-296 pls 6-8 [166].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Manning, R.B. & Holthuis, L.B. 1981. West African Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 306: i-xii, 1-379 figs 1-88, 2 appendices [57]

Introduction

The best known leucosiids are the 'pebble crabs' of the genus Leucosia and related genera of the Leucosiinae. Leucosiids are common in the soft sand to sandy-mud bottoms of Australia's coastal waters although, because of their burrowing habit, they are relatively rarely encountered, unless by dredging or trawling. They can be varied in shape but more typically are globular and round to elongate oval, with very small eyes and a more or less pointed snout. This snout is the result of a forward elongation and narrowing of the mouth frame, which carries both the inhalant and exhalant respiratory channels to its tip, and allows the crab to pump water to the gills whilst remaining almost entirely buried in the substrate.

Many genera are clearly polyphyletic and need revision. The best general introduction to the group is that of Sakai (1976). The most significant works on the Australian fauna include: Hale (1927), Tyndale-Biscoe & George (1962), Campbell & Stephenson (1970), Campbell (1971), George & Clark (1976), Arnold & George (1987), and Ovaere (1988). Galil (2001a,b,c; 2003a,b; 2005a,b; 2006; 2009) has recently been actively revising a number of genera in this family. The subfamily Philyrinae Rathbun, 1937, has recently been merged back under the Ebaliinae Stimpson, 1871 (see Ng et al. 2008 for explanation).

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

LEUCOSIIDAE: Leucosia perlata De Haan, 1841 — Galil, B.S. 2003. Contribution to the knowledge of Leucosiidae I. The identity of Leucosia craniolaris (Linnaeus, 1758), and the redefinition of the genus Leucosia Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 77(8): 181-191, figs 1-2

Diagnosis

Carapace shape varied, from subcircular to ovoid, pyriform or pentagonal; regions often not defined; smooth or armed with spines or lobes. Eyes and orbits very small. Frontal region narrowed and more or less produced anteriorly. Antennules folding more or less obliquely. Antennae small, sometimes obsolete. Third maxillipeds elongate, completely closing buccal cavern; palp arises from groove near inner edge of dorsal surface, completely hidden when third maxillipeds closed; exopod broad. Afferent branchial canals opening at bases of third maxillipeds, running along sides of buccal cavity, and covered by exopods of third maxilliped. Efferent branchial channels covered by pair of lamellar processes from first maxilliped. Chelipeds symmetrical, more or less robust and elongate. Walking legs with dactyli simple, not lanceolate or natatorial. Abdomen with some segments fused in both sexes. Female genital openings sternal; male openings coxal or sternal. Male second gonopod short.

General References

Arnold, P.W. & George, R.W. 1987. Recognition of Leucosia whitei Bell and Leucosia cheverti Haswell (Decapoda, Brachyura, Leucosiidae). Crustaceana 53(2): 209-214

Campbell, B.M. 1971. New records and new species of crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) trawled off southern Queensland: Dromiacea, Homolidea, Gymnopleura, Corystoidea, and Oxystomata. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(1): 27-48 figs 1-4 pls 2-3

Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table

Galil, B.S. 2001. A new genus and species of leucosiid crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Zoosystematica Rossica 23(1): 65-75

Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of Myra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(24): 409-446

Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of the genus Arcania Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(11): 169-206

Galil, B.S. 2003. Contribution to the knowledge of Leucosiidae I. The identity of Leucosia craniolaris (Linnaeus, 1758), and the redefinition of the genus Leucosia Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 77(8): 181-191, figs 1-2

Galil, B.S. 2003. Contribution to the knowledge of Leucosiidae II. Euclosia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 77(20): 331-347

Galil, B. S. 2003. Four new genera of leucosiid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) for three new species and nine previously in the genus Randallia Stimpson, 1857, with a redescription of the type species, R. ornata. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116(2): 395-422

Galil, B.S. 2005. Contributions to the knowledge of Leucosiidae III. Urnalana gen. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 79: 9-40

Galil, B.S. 2005. Contributions to the knowledge of Leucosiidae IV. Seulocia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 79-2(3): 41-59

Galil, B.S. 2006. Contributions to the knowledge of Leucosiidae V. Coleusia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 80: 57-69

Galil, B. S. 2009. An examination of the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Leucosiidae) with descriptions of seven new genera and six new species. Zoosystema 31(2): 279-320

George, R.W. & Clark, M. 1976. Two new species of pebble crab (Oxystomata: Leucosiidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 4(3): 303-309

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs.

Ng, P.K.L, Guinot, D. & Davie, P.J.F. 2008. Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1-286 [Date published 31 January 2008]

Ovaere, A.A. 1988. A new species of the genus Leucosia from Australia and Papua New Guinea (Crustacea, Brachyura). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 58: 95-98

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.].

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3

History of changes

• Cryptocnemidae Stimpson, W. 1907. Report on the Crustacea (Brachyura and Anomura) collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 1853–1856. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 49(3): 1-240 pls 1-26 [161].
• Leuciscini Števčić, 2005.
• Lissomorphini Števčić, 2005.
• Onychomorphini Števčić, 2005.

Diagnosis

Carapace broad, flattened or even concave; with lamelliform lateral expansions concealing all or part of walking legs. Orbits small and deep; antennae obsolete or nearly so. Apex of third maxilliped sharply triangular, projecting much beyond extremity of exopod, bisecting epistome; exopod generally dilated, its outer margin more or less convex. Chelipeds symmetrical, large and depressed, always exposed. Male abdomen with most segments fused.

History of changes

• Cryptocnemus Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Oxystomata: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VI. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 159-163 (57-61) [162] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cryptocnemus pentagonus Stimpson, 1858 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Ihle, J.E.W. 1918. Die Decapoda Brachyura der Siboga-Expedition. III. Oxystomata: Calappidae, Leucosiidae, Raninidae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(b2): 159-322 figs 78-148 [286] (key to species—in German)

History of changes

• Cryptocnemus crenulatus Grant, F.E. & McCulloch, A.R. 1906. On a collection of Crustacea from the Port Curtis District, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31(1): 2-53, text-figs 1-3 pls 1-4 [24 pl. 2 fig. 2, 2a].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM G5622 3 specimens, Masthead Is., QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, sublittoral.

History of changes

• Cryptocnemus haddoni Calman, W.T. 1900. On a Collection of Brachyura from Torres Straits. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 8(Zool. 1): 1-50 pls 1-3 [25 pl. 1 figs 4-8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, 'Channel between reefs', Torres Strait.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Cryptocnemus hemispheroides Campbell, B.M. 1971. New records and new species of crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) trawled off southern Queensland: Dromiacea, Homolidea, Gymnopleura, Corystoidea, and Oxystomata. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(1): 27-48 figs 1-4 pls 2-3 [43 pl. 3C fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM W3363 ♀, Southern Queensland [26°27'S 153°50'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

273 m depth.

History of changes

• Cryptocnemus planus Ward, M. 1933. New genera and species of marine Decapoda Brachyura from the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 7(5): 377-394 pls 21-23 [377 pl. 22 fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P10624 ♂, Lady Musgrave Island, Bunker Group, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Cryptocnemus vincentianus Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. [192 fig. 193].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA C781 ♀, dredged off Semaphore, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Gulf St. Vincent, SA

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

General References

Lam-Gordillo, O., Baring, R. & Dittmann, S. 2019. Rediscovering the tortoise-crab, Cryptocnemus vincentianus Hale, 1927 (Brachyura: Leucosiidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 143(2): 235-243

History of changes

• Leucisca MacLeay, W.S. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. pp. 53–71 pl. 3 in, Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". London. 75 pp. 4 pls [70] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Leucisca squalina Macleay, 1838 by monotypy.
• Carcinaspis Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Oxystomata: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VI. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 159-163 (57-61) [161] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Carcinaspis marginatus Stimpson, 1858 by monotypy.
• Leucocarcinus Rathbun, M.J. 1897. A revision of the nomenclature of the Brachyura. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 11: 153-167 [166] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Leucisca MacLeay, 1838; gender masculine].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Barnard, K.H. 1950. Descriptive Catalogue of South African Decapod Crustacea (Crabs and Shrimps). Annals of the South African Museum 38: 1-837 figs 1-154 [370]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SE Africa.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

History of changes

• Leucisca levigena George, R.W. & Clark, M. 1976. Two new species of pebble crab (Oxystomata: Leucosiidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 4(3): 303-309 [306 figs 5-7].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 253-62 ♀ adult, Yanchep Reef, WA [31°33'S 115°37'E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 1 m.

History of changes

• Lissomorpha Ward, M. 1933. New genera and species of marine Decapoda Brachyura from the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 7(5): 377-394 pls 21-23 [378] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Lissomorpha haswelli Ward, 1933 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Lissomorpha haswelli Ward, M. 1933. New genera and species of marine Decapoda Brachyura from the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 7(5): 377-394 pls 21-23 [378 pl. 21 figs 5-6a].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P10625 ♀, off Gatcombe Head, Facing Island, Port Curtis, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Ebaliinae Stimpson, W. 1871. Preliminary report on the Crustacea dredged in the Gulf Stream in the Straits of Florida, by L.F. de Pourtales, Assist. U.S. Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 2: 109-160 [159].
• Myropodinae Miers, E.J. 1886. Report on the Brachyura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 17(49): i-xlix 1-362 pls 1-29 [297].
• Iliinae Stimpson, W. 1871. Preliminary report on the Crustacea dredged in the Gulf Stream in the Straits of Florida, by L.F. de Pourtales, Assist. U.S. Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 2: 109-160 [155] [Name No. 372 on Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology].
• Oreophorinae Miers, E.J. 1886. Report on the Brachyura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 17(49): i-xlix 1-362 pls 1-29 [297].
• Myroida Alcock, A. 1896. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2. The Brachyura Oxystoma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 65(Pt 2 No. 2): 134-296 pls 6-8 [167].
• Nucioida Alcock, A. 1896. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2. The Brachyura Oxystoma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 65(Pt 2 No. 2): 134-296 pls 6-8 [167].
• Nursilioida Alcock, A. 1896. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2. The Brachyura Oxystoma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 65(Pt 2 No. 2): 134-296 pls 6-8 [167].
• Philyrinae Rathbun, M.J. 1937. The oxystomatous and allied crabs of America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 166: i-vi, 1-278 pls 1-86 [151].
• Arcaniini Števčić, 2005.
• Ixini Števčić, 2005.
• Pariliini Števčić, 2005.
• Persephonini Števčić, 2005.
• Randalliini Števčić, 2005.
• Ihleini Števčić, 2011.

Diagnosis

Dorsal surface with regions often relatively well defined. Eyes and orbits very small. Buccal carern reaches far beyond anterior boundary of pterygostome. Anterior part of pterygostome with circular depression behind orbit. Epistome and infraorbital lobes usually well developed. Third maxilliped with merus half or more than half length of ischium measured along inner edge. Distinct space between inner edge of orbital floor and edge of buccal cavity. Chelipeds of moderate length; palm and fingers normal; dactylus often closing obliquely.

History of changes

• Alox Tan, C.G.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 1995. A revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Oreophorus Rüppell, 1830 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae). pp. 101-189 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205. [117] [gender neuter].

  Type species:

   Alox glene Tan & Ng, 1995 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Oreophorus (Oreophorus) ornatus Ihle, J.E.W. 1918. Die Decapoda Brachyura der Siboga-Expedition. III. Oxystomata: Calappidae, Leucosiidae, Raninidae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(b2): 159-322 figs 78-148 [214 fig. 122].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMA ♀, Kai [Kei] Islands, Indonesia.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMA ♂, Kai [Kei] Islands, Indonesia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Tan, C.G.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 1995. A revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Oreophorus Rüppell, 1830 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae). pp. 101-189 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205. [125].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific (Indonesia, Philippines, Japan).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Gravel.

History of changes

• Tlos patella Alcock, A. 1896. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2. The Brachyura Oxystoma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 65(Pt 2 No. 2): 134-296 pls 6-8 [176 pl. 28 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 96.9.8.17 ♀, Andamans.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Tan, C.G.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 1995. A revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Oreophorus Rüppell, 1830 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae). pp. 101-189 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205. [127].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-west Pacific (New Caledonia, Vietnam, Andamans).

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 7–48 m.

History of changes

• Oreophorus rugosus Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Oxystomata: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VI. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 159-163 (57-61) [161].

  Type data:

   Neotype NSMT Cr.9660 ♀, Oshima Passage, Amsmi-oshimu Is., Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Tan, C.G.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 1995. A revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Oreophorus Rüppell, 1830 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae). pp. 101-189 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

General References

Haswell, W.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Addenda et corrigenda. Sydney : Australian Museum xxiv 324 pp., 4 pls. [130] (Australian record)

Ortmann, A.E. 1894. Crustaceen. In, Semon, R. Zoologische Forshungreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 8(1): 1-80 pls 1-3 [35] (Australian record)

Tan, C.G.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 1995. A revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Oreophorus Rüppell, 1830 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae). pp. 101-189 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205. (Tan & Ng believe that Australian records of this species are unconfirmed)

History of changes

• Arcania Leach, W.E. 1817. 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. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [24] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer erinaceus Fabricius, 1787 by monotypy.
• Iphis Leach, W.E. 1817. 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. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [19] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cancer septemspinosus Fabricius, 1787 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tirmizi, N.M. & Kazmi, Q.B. 1988. Crustacea: Brachyura (Dromiacea, Archaeobrachyura, Oxystomata, Oxyrhyncha). Marine Fauna of Pakistan, 4, Karachi: BCCI Foundation Chair, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Karachi 6, 246 pp., 2 colour frontispiece. [71]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), 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), Southwest Transition (7)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Ixoides cornutus MacGilchrist, A.C. 1905. Natural History Notes from the R.I.M.S.S. "Investigator", Capt T.H. Heming, R.N. (retired), commanding. — Series III., No. 6. An account of the new and some of the rarer Decapod Crustacea obtained during the surveying seasons 1901–1904. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15(87): 233-268 [255].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3 specimens, Persian Gulf.
• Arcania spinixa Zarenkov, N.A. 1994. Crabs from seamounts of the western part of the Indian Ocean. In: A.P.Kuznetsov, A.N. Mironov (eds), Bottom fauna of seamounts. Transactions of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology 129: 97-125.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Persian Gulf to Vietnam, China, Japan and Philippines).

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy mud to mud substrates, depth 28–204 m.

General References

Chen, H. 1989. Leucosiidae (Crustacea, Brachyura). pp. 181-263 in Forest, J. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 5. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A 144: 1-385 [227] (figured)

History of changes

• Arcania echinata Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of the genus Arcania Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(11): 169-206 [176].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM C24381 ♂, Abbot Point, 200 km south of Townsville.
  Paratype(s) QM W17401 ♂ (Depth: 60 m), Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland [12°30.4'S, 140°42.1'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Singapore, Eastern Seas, Australia

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

History of changes

• Arcania undecimspinosa elongata 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 [133 text-fig. 47].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Japan.

  Secondary source:

   Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of the genus Arcania Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(11): 169-206 [176-179].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia, Japan, Philippines, China, South China Sea

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth: 7-166 m

General References

Campbell, B.M. 1971. New records and new species of crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) trawled off southern Queensland: Dromiacea, Homolidea, Gymnopleura, Corystoidea, and Oxystomata. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(1): 27-48 figs 1-4 pls 2-3 [41] (raised to full species status)

History of changes

• Arcania foliolata Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of the genus Arcania Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(11): 169-206 [[180-181, figs 1F, 5B]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA P8451 ♂, Sir Edward Pellow Group, Northern Territory [15°33'S, 136°47'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to 14 m depth

History of changes

• Arcania fungilifera Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of the genus Arcania Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(11): 169-206 [[181-182, fig. 2]].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 282-60 ♀, Cottlesloe, near Perth, Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

History of changes

• Arcania gracilis Henderson, J.R. 1893. A contribution to Indian Carcinology. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Ser. 2, Zool. 5(1): 325-458 pls 36-40 [403].
• Arcania quinquespinosa Alcock, A. & Anderson, A.R.S., 1894. Notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer 'Investigator', Commander C.F. Oldham, R.N., commanding. Series 2. No. 17. List of the Shore and Shallow-water Brachyura collected during the season 1893-1894. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 63(2): 197-209 [206].

Generic Combinations

• Arcania gracilis (Henderson, 1893).

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Vanuatu, New Caedonia, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, China, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Laccadives, Persian Gulf, Madagascar, Red Sea, and Australia. Depth: 21-366 m.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Southwest Transition (7)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Iphis heptacantha De Haan, W. in Herklots, J.A. 1861. Symbolae carcinologicae. Études sur la classe des Crustacés. p. 27. [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH D42112 dry ♀ adult (a set of mouthparts evidently extracted by de Haan are also present as D42113), locality unknown.

  Type locality references:

  de Man, J.G. 1907. On a collection of Crustacea, Decapoda and Stomatopoda chiefly from the Inland Sea of Japan, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Zool. 9(11): 387-454 pls 31-33.
• Iphis hepatacantha Herklots, 1861 [nomen nudum].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean (Japan to Singapore and Gulf of Thailand).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand or sandy mud substrates, depth 50–150 m.

General References

Campbell, B.M. 1971. New records and new species of crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) trawled off southern Queensland: Dromiacea, Homolidea, Gymnopleura, Corystoidea, and Oxystomata. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(1): 27-48 figs 1-4 pls 2-3 [40]

History of changes

• Arcania muricata Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of the genus Arcania Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(11): 169-206 [189-190].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM W19599 ♂ (Depth: 27.4 m), Arafura Sea [11°21'S, 133°27'E].
  Paratype(s) AMSA P13367 ♂ (Depth: 38 m), Chambers Bay, Northern Territory, Australia [12°13'S, 131°35'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

At present known only from the type series - Arafura Sea, Vietnam, and Australia

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth: - 110-177 m

History of changes

• Leucosia novemspinosa Lichtenstein 1816. Die Gattung Leucosia als Probe einer neuer Bearbeitung der Krabben und Krebse. Magasin der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 7 (2):. 135-144 pp. [143].
• Iphis novemspinosa Adams, A. & White, A. 1849. Crustacea. Part II. 33-67 pls 7-13 in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Vogage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [56 pl. 13 fig. 1] [as novem-spinosa].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Philippines.
• Iphis novemspinosa White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [51] [nomen nudum; nom. nud.].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Taiwan Str., Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Australia. Depth: 9-40 m

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy substrates with loose coral, rock and shell, depth 4–70 m.

General References

Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [250] (figured)

History of changes

• Cancer septemspinosus Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericus, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 1 xx 348 pp. [325].
• Iphis longipes 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 [396].
• Arcania siamensis Rathbun, M.J. 1909. New crabs from the Gulf of Siam. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 22: 107-114 [108].
• ?Cancer hystrix Fabricus, 1793.

Generic Combinations

• Arcania septemspinosa (Fabricius, 1787).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Gulf of Thailand, India, Madagascar, Mozambique Channel, South Africa, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Australia. Depth: 7-182 m.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth: - 100-177 m

History of changes

• Arcania tuberculata Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [310 pl. 34 fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Borneo.
• Arcania laevimana White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [50] [nomen nudum; nom. nud.].
• Arcania laevimana Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [310 pl. 34 fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Corregidor Is., Philippines.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [76]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Indian Ocean and Indonesia (Sri Lanka, Maldive and Andaman Islands, Borneo).

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth to 113 m.

History of changes

• Arcania undecimspinosa De Haan, W. 1841. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugundi-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [135 pl. 33 fig. 8, pl. J] [as 'Arcania 11 spinosa'].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH D790 1 specimen, Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH D42114 dry 1♂ 4 ♀, Japan; RMNH (no reg. no.) 1♂ 4♀; RMNH (no reg. no.) 3♂ 1♀; RMNH D790 4 specimens (specimens with lectotype), Japan; RMNH D42115 dry ♂, Japan; RMNH D42116 3♂ 1♀ dry specimen, Japan; RMNH D42117 mouthparts dry, Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Yamaguchi, T. & Baba, K. 1993. Crustacean specimens collected in Japan by Ph.F. von Siebold and H. Bürger and held by the National Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden and other museums. pp. 145-563 in Yamaguchi, T. (ed.). Ph.F. von Siebold and Natural History of Japan Crustacea. Japan : Shimoda Printing Inc. [318].
• Arcania granulosa Miers, E.J. 1877. Notes upon oxystomatous Crustacea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 1: 235-249 pls 38-40 [240 pl. 38 fig. 29].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Moreton Bay, QLD.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (India to China, Japan and Philippines).

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy mud to soft mud substrates, depth 7–219 m.

History of changes

• Bellidilia Kinahan, J.R. 1856. Remarks on the habits and distribution of marine Crustacea on the eastern shores of Port Philip, Victoria, Australia, with descriptions of undescribed species and genera. Journal of the Royal Dublin Society 1(3): 111-134 [115, 117, 128] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Bellidilia undecimspinosa Kinahan, 1856 by subsequent designation, see Manning, R.B. & Holthuis, L.B. 1981. West African Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 306: i-xii, 1-379 figs 1-88, 2 appendices [60].
• Dittosa Tan, C.G.S. 1995. Dittosa, a new genus of leucosiid (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from southern Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3): 465-476 [465] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Philyra laevis Bell, 1855 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [269] (Bellidilia Kinahan, 1856, has long been considered a junior synonym of Ebalia Leach, 1817. Philyra murrayensis Rathbun, was included in a new genus, Dittosa, by Tan (1995), but this species had already been placed into the synonymy of Bellidilia undecimspinosa Kinahan by Griffin (1972), who also transferred B. undecimspinosa to Philyra from Ebalia for the first time. As Tan (1995) was unaware of this action, she did not consult any comparative material of 'Ebalia' undecimspinosa, and thus did not include it in Dittosa. Kinahan created Bellidilia to include his undecimspinosa, and this species was later designated the type for the genus by Manning & Holthuis (1981). Thus Bellidilia Kinahan, 1856, is the senior available generic name, and includes two recognised species B. undecimspinosa Kinahan and B. laevis (Bell))

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Philyra laevis Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [300 pl. 32 fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Port Adelaide, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal flats, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy substrates.

General References

Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [61] (remarks on variation)

Tan, C.G.S. 1995. Dittosa, a new genus of leucosiid (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from southern Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3): 465-476 [471]

History of changes

• Bellidilia undecimspinosa Kinahan, J.R. 1856. Remarks on the habits and distribution of marine Crustacea on the eastern shores of Port Philip, Victoria, Australia, with descriptions of undescribed species and genera. Journal of the Royal Dublin Society 1(3): 111-134 [128] [as undecim-spinosa].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Phillip, VIC.
• Philyra murrayensis 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. [136 pl. 34].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E4467 ♀, off Murray River mouth, SA.
• Phlyxia orbicularis Haswell, W.A. 1879. Contribution to a monograph of Australian Leucosiidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 44-60 [54 pl. 6 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P40843, P40844 3♂, Port Jackson and Jervis Bay, NSW, Tasmania.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [60]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to mud and shelly substrates, depth 4–92 m.

History of changes

• Cateios Tan, C.G.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 1995. A revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Oreophorus Rüppell, 1830 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae). pp. 101-189 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205. [135] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Oreophorus frontalis Miers, 1884 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Oreophorus frontalis 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. [254 pl. 26 fig. B].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Port Molle, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean (Indonesia, Japan, Philippines).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Rubble.

History of changes

• Dolos Tan, C.G.S. & Richer de Forges, B. 1993. On the systematics and ecology of two species of mimetic crabs belonging to the family Leucosiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 41(1): 119-132 [120] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Tlos petraeus A. Milne Edwards, 1874 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia, Chesterfield Is., Coral Sea.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

History of changes

• Tlos petraeus Milne Edwards, A. 1874. Recherches sur la faune carcinologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Pt. 3. Groupe des Oxystomes. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 10: 39-58 pls 2, 3 [51 pl. 3 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHP B24850 ♂, Lagoon North-West, New Caledonia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Tan, C.G.S. & Richer de Forges, B. 1993. On the systematics and ecology of two species of mimetic crabs belonging to the family Leucosiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 41(1): 119-132.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia, Chesterfield Island, Coral Sea.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

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. [258] (Australian record needs to be confirmed)

Tan, C.G.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 1995. A revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Oreophorus Rüppell, 1830 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae). pp. 101-189 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205. [138]

History of changes

• Ebalia Leach, W.E. 1817. Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britanniæ : or, descriptions of such British species of the Linnean genus Cancer as have their eyes elevated on footstalks. London : James Sowerby 19 pts pp. [1815-1875] [pl. 25] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Ebalia bryerii Leach, 1817 by subsequent designation, see Milne Edwards, H. 1844. Les Crustacés. 1-278 pp., Atlas, pls 1-80 in Cuvier, G. (ed.). Le Règne Animal, distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux, et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Paris : Déterville. [published 1836–1844, see Manning, R.B. & Holthuis, L.B. 1981. West African Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 306: i–xii, 1–379 figs 1–88, 2 appendices [369] for issue dates of the 23 parts of this work] [pl. 24 fig. 3] (as Ebalia brayerii) (= Cancer tumefactus Montagu, 1808).
• Phlyxia Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [303] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Phlyxia crassipes Bell, 1855 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Manning, R.B. & Holthuis, L.B. 1981. West African Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 306: i-xii, 1-379 figs 1-88, 2 appendices [60]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Ebalia brevimana Campbell, B.M. 1971. New records and new species of crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) trawled off southern Queensland: Dromiacea, Homolidea, Gymnopleura, Corystoidea, and Oxystomata. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(1): 27-48 figs 1-4 pls 2-3 [35 fig. 2A-H, pl. 3A].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM W3395 ♂, Moreton Bay, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Phlyxia crassipes Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [304 pl. 34 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3 specimens, Port Jackson, NSW.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to sandy mud substrates, depth 4–13 m.

General References

Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [59] (remarks on variation and distribution)

History of changes

• Ebalia (Phlyxia) dentifrons Miers, E.J. 1886. Report on the Brachyura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 17(49): i-xlix 1-362 pls 1-29 [310 pl. 25 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, South Australian coast.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

General References

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. [200] (figure)

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [74] (first male gonopod figured)

History of changes

• Ebalia (Phlyxia) intermedia Miers, E.J. 1886. Report on the Brachyura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 17(49): i-xlix 1-362 pls 1-29 [308 pl. 25 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 4 specimens, Port Phillip, VIC.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to muddy sand or mud substrates, depth 5–120 m.

General References

Balss, H. 1935. Brachyura of the Hamburg Museum Expedition to South-Western Australia, 1905. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 21: 113-151, text-figs 1-3 pl. 13 [117]

Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [58] (remarks on variation)

History of changes

• Phlyxia lambriformis Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [304 pl. 34 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Australia.
• Phlyxia petleyi Haswell, W.A. 1882. Description of some new species of Australian Decapoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(4): 750-763 [754].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀, Port Molle, Whitsunday Passage, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ihle, J.E.W. 1918. Die Decapoda Brachyura der Siboga-Expedition. III. Oxystomata: Calappidae, Leucosiidae, Raninidae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(b2): 159-322 figs 78-148 [310]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Ebalia longimana Ortmann, A.E. 1892. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum auf bewahrten Formen. V. Theil. Hippidea, Dromiidea und Oxystomata. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 6: 532-588 pl. 26 [579 pl. 26 fig. 13].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MS ♂ ♀, Japan.
• Ebalia gotoensis Rathbun, M.J. 1932. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Japanese crabs. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 45: 29-38 [36-37].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 65060 ♀ (Depth: - 60-70 fathoms; substrate - green mud, volcanic sand ash), Ose Zaki, S. 55° W.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean (Japan).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to coarse gravel with shells, depth 30–150 m.

General References

Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [56] (Australian record)

History of changes

• Phlyxia quadrata Milne Edwards, A. 1873. Description de quelques Crustacés nouveaux ou peu connus provenant du Musée de M.C. Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 1(4): 77-88 pls 12, 13 [86].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH No.5815a ♂, Bass Strait.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Phlyxia ramsayi Haswell, W.A. 1879. Contribution to a monograph of Australian Leucosiidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 44-60 [55] [as Phlyxia Ramsayi].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM (presumed lost as not listed in Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1993. Catalogue of Crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Report of the Australian Museum 11: 1–134), Port Jackson, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Ebalia (Phlyxia) quadridentata spinifera Miers, E.J. 1886. Report on the Brachyura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 17(49): i-xlix 1-362 pls 1-29 [309 pl. 25 figs 3, 3a].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Port Jackson, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to mud or coarse gravel and shell substrates, depth 5–86 m.

History of changes

• Persephona tuberculosa Milne Edwards, A. 1873. Description de quelques Crustacés nouveaux ou peu connus provenant du Musée de M.C. Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 1(4): 77-88 pls 12, 13 [86].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MGH, Bass Strait.
• Phlyxia granulosa Haswell, W.A. 1879. Contribution to a monograph of Australian Leucosiidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 44-60 [54 pl. 6 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P40832, outside Sydney Heads, NSW.
• Ebalia salamensis Doflein, F. 1904. Brachyura. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 6: xiv 68 figs Atlas 58 pls 314 pp. [47 pl. 26 figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZSMB (probable depository institution), off Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa.
• Nursia scandens Stebbing, T.R.R. 1920. South African Crustacea, (Part X of S.A. Crustacea, for the Marine Investigations in South Africa). Annals of the South African Museum 17(4): 231-272 pls 18-27 [247 pl. CVIa].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAM A4049, Cove Rock, South Africa.
• Nursia postulans Stebbing, T.R.R. 1921. South African Crustacea (Part XI of S.A. Crustacea, for the Marine Investigations in South Africa). Annals of the South African Museum 18(4): 453-468 pls 13-20 [461 pl. CXIII].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAM A502, Cape Natal, South Africa.
• Ebalia japonica Rathbun, M.J. 1932. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Japanese crabs. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 45: 29-38 [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 65059 ♂, off Niigata Light, 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.]. [71]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west-central Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan, east to Hawai'i, and south to New Zealand).

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to mud substrates, depth 50 to 539 m

General References

Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [57] (remarks on variation and distribution)

History of changes

• Nursia ypsilon Ortmann, A.E. 1894. Crustaceen. In, Semon, R. Zoologische Forshungreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 8(1): 1-80 pls 1-3 [36 pl. 2 fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 1♂ 2♀, Thursday Island, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Thursday Island

Known only from type locality.

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Ebaliopsis Ihle, J.E.W. 1918. Die Decapoda Brachyura der Siboga-Expedition. III. Oxystomata: Calappidae, Leucosiidae, Raninidae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(b2): 159-322 figs 78-148 [255] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Phlyxia erosa A. Milne Edwards, 1874 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

History of changes

• Phylxia erosa Milne Edwards, A. 1874. Recherches sur la faune carcinologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Pt. 3. Groupe des Oxystomes. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 10: 39-58 pls 2, 3 [47 pl. 3 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♀, New Caledonia.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Mauritius to Indonesia, New Caledonia and Fiji).

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, subtidal.

History of changes

• Hiplyra Galil, B. S. 2009. An examination of the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Leucosiidae) with descriptions of seven new genera and six new species. Zoosystema 31(2): 279-320 [291-292].

  Type species:

   Philyra platycheir De Haan, 1841 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Philyra longimana Milne Edwards, A. 1874. Recherches sur la faune carcinologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Pt. 3. Groupe des Oxystomes. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 10: 39-58 pls 2, 3 [43, pl. 2 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 200 ♂, New Caledonia.

Generic Combinations

• Hiplyra longimana (A. Milne Edwards, 1874). —
  Galil, B. S. 2009. An examination of the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Leucosiidae) with descriptions of seven new genera and six new species. Zoosystema 31(2): 279-320 [293-294]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia, Australia (Western Australia-NW, SW; Queeensland - NE)

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

History of changes

• Philyra platycheir De Haan, W. 1841. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugundi-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [132 pl. 33 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH 793 sex not determined, Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH D42272 1♂ 1♀, Japan; RMNH (no reg. no.) 7♂ 4♀; RMNH D42273 7♂ 4♀, Japan; RMNH D793 3 specimens, Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Yamaguchi, T. & Baba, K. 1993. Crustacean specimens collected in Japan by Ph.F. von Siebold and H. Bürger and held by the National Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden and other museums. pp. 145-563 in Yamaguchi, T. (ed.). Ph.F. von Siebold and Natural History of Japan Crustacea. Japan : Shimoda Printing Inc. [325].

Generic Combinations

• Hiplyra platycheir (De Haan, 1841). —
  Tirmizi, N.M. & Kazmi, Q.B. 1988. Crustacea: Brachyura (Dromiacea, Archaeobrachyura, Oxystomata, Oxyrhyncha). Marine Fauna of Pakistan, 4, Karachi: BCCI Foundation Chair, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Karachi 6, 246 pp., 2 colour frontispiece. [100]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan and New Caledonia).

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand substrates, depth 35 to 150 m.

General References

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [75] (first male gonopod figured)

History of changes

• Ixa Leach, W.E. 1816. A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animal which Linne arranged under Insecta: with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders &c. and descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11(2): 306-400 & 'Errata' [dated 1815, but published 24 January 1816] [334] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer cylindrus Fabricius, 1777 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Ixa acuta Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [72 pls I: 1, II: 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 201-60 ♂, W side of Exmouth Gulf, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Cancer cylindrus Fabricius, J.C. 1777. Genera Insectorum eorumque characteres naturales, secundum numerum, figurum, situm et proportionem omnium partium oris; adjecta mantissa specierum nuper detectarum. Chilonii 310 pp. [248].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC, locality unknown.
• Ixa canaliculata Leach, W.E. 1817. 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. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [26 pl. 129 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, India.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Alcock, A. 1896. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2. The Brachyura Oxystoma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 65(Pt 2 No. 2): 134-296 pls 6-8 [271]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

(Thursday Island), Indo-west Pacific Oceans (India to Indo-Malaysia).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Ixa inermis Leach, W.E. 1817. 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. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [26 pl. 129 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, locality unknown.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Red Sea to Indonesia).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand and shell substrates.

History of changes

• Arcania pulcherrima Haswell, W.A. 1879. Contribution to a monograph of Australian Leucosiidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 44-60 [58 pl. 6 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM(MMUS) P40845 ♀, Darnley Island, Torres Strait, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean (Philippines).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 16–84 m.

History of changes

• Merocryptus Milne Edwards, A. 1873. Description de quelques Crustacés nouveaux ou peu connus provenant du Musée de M.C. Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 1(4): 77-88 pls 12, 13 [78] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Merocryptus lambriformis Milne Edwards, 1873 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific and east Atlantic Oceans.

IMCRA

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

History of changes

• Merocryptus lambriformis Milne Edwards, A. 1873. Description de quelques Crustacés nouveaux ou peu connus provenant du Musée de M.C. Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 1(4): 77-88 pls 12, 13 [85 pl. 13 figs 1-1c].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MGH ♀, New Caledonia.
• Ebalia rugosa 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 [124].

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean (Japan, East China Sea, Samoa, New Zealand, New Caledonia).

IMCRA

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

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to sandy-mud substrates, depth 60–220 m.

General References

Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [62] (distribution records)

History of changes

• Myra Leach, W.E. 1817. The Zoological Miscellany: being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 3. [23].
• Myrodes Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 3: 428-435 [432] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Myrodes eudactylus Bell, 1855 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Myra affinis Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [296 pl. 32 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 43.6 ♂, Philippines.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [88].
• Myra affinis White, 1847 [nomen nudum].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (E India to China, Japan and Philippines).

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Muddy sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 10–50 m.

General References

Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [250] (figured)

History of changes

• Myra australis Haswell, W.A. 1879. Contribution to a monograph of Australian Leucosiidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 44-60 [50, pl. V, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM P40828 1♀ 3♂, Sue, Darnley and Palm Island, Cape Grenville, NE QLD; AM P40829 4♂, Sue, Darnley and Palm Island, Cape Grenville, NE QLD; AM P40830 1♂, Sue, Darnley and Palm Island, Cape Grenville, NE QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malaysian region (Singapore, Gulf of Martaban).

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Gritty sand to mud substrates, depth 5–58 m.

General References

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [88] (figured, gave characters to separate from M. affinis)

History of changes

• Myra celeris Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of Myra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(24): 409-446 [418-421].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH D43202 ♂, Japan.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia, Arafura Sea, New Guinea, Indonesia, Japan, China, and Australia. Depth: 4-52 m

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

History of changes

• Myra currax Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of Myra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(24): 409-446 [421].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1881.31 ♂, Claremont, Flinders, Australia.
  Paratype(s) ZMUC 2♂, 2♀, 10 juveniles, Lampong Bay, Sumatra.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Australia. depth: 20-29 m

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

History of changes

• Myra curtimana Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of Myra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(24): 409-446 [421-423].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP B21181 ♀ (38 m depth), New Caledonia [22°42.8’S 166°45.2’E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia; Fiji; New Caledonia;Philippines

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf.

History of changes

• Myra elegans Bell, Th., 1855. Horae carcinologicae, or notices of Crustacea. I. A monograph of the Leucosiadae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the genetic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16: 361-367.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1847.21 ♀, Eastern Seas.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Papua-New Guinea, Philippines, Indonesia, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand, Myanmar, Bay of Bengal, and Australia. Depth: 5-187 m

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

History of changes

• Myrodes eudactylus Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [299 pl. 32 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Philippines.
• Myrodes gigas Haswell, W.A. 1879. Contribution to a monograph of Australian Leucosiidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 44-60 [52 pl. 5 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM(MMUS) (presumed lost, not found by Griffin, D.J.G. & Stanbury, P.J. 1970. Type Specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. V. Decapod Crustaceans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 95(1): 122–131 [125]), Darnley Is., N QLD.
• Myra dilatimanus White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [49] [nomen nudum].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Andaman Islands, Thailand, Andaman Sea, Philippines, New Caledonia).

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand substrate with coral and shell; depth 8-69 m

General References

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [87] (male first gonopod figured)

History of changes

• Leucosia fugax Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [351].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC, unknown (the collector, I.K. Daldorff, obtained his material mainly from Tranquebar, south-east India).
• Myra pentacantha Alcock, A. 1896. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2. The Brachyura Oxystoma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 65(Pt 2 No. 2): 134-296 pls 6-8 [204].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) IM (probable depository institution), India.
• Cancer punctatus Herbst, J.F.W. 1783. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Zurich : Joh. Casper Fuessly Vol. 1 Pts 2–5 pp. 87–182 pls 2–9. [3 volumes and an Atlas published from 1782–1804] [89 pl. 2 figs 15-16] [junior homonym of Cancer punctatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Brachyura: Leucosiidae) pre-occupied name].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB Herbst 2190 ♂, East Indies; ZMB Herbst 2187 1♂ 1♀, East Indies.
• Myra carinata White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [49] [nomen nudum; nom. nud.].
• Myra carinata Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [297 pl. 32 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Cageyan, Philippines.
• Leucosia fugax Weber, F. 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum entomologian systematicam ill. Fabricii, adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus. Chiloni et Hamburgi : C.E. Bohn viii 171 pp. [nomen nudum; nom. nud.].
• Myra longimerus Chen & Tϋrkay, 2001.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tirmizi, N.M. & Kazmi, Q.B. 1988. Crustacea: Brachyura (Dromiacea, Archaeobrachyura, Oxystomata, Oxyrhyncha). Marine Fauna of Pakistan, 4, Karachi: BCCI Foundation Chair, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Karachi 6, 246 pp., 2 colour frontispiece. [89]
• Sakai, K. 1999. J. F. W. Herbst-Collection of decapod Crustacea of the Berlin Zoological Museum, with remarks on certain species. Naturalists, Tokushima Biological Laboratory, Shikoku University 6: 1-45 pls 1-21 [17]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean, east through Indonesia to China, Japan, and New Caledonia).

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy to muddy sand and shell substrates, depth 50 to 200 m.

General References

Rathbun, M.J. 1924. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expedition to Australia 1910–1913. 37. Brachyura, Albuneidae and Porcellanidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 16(23): 1-33, text-figs 1-7 pl. 1 [26] (first Australian record)

History of changes

• Myra mammillaris Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [298 pl. 32 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1846.50 ♂, Adelaide.
  Paralectotype(s) 1846.50 ♂, Adelaide;
  Syntype(s) BMNH, South Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy substrates, sometimes with rocks and weed; depth to about 20 m.

General References

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [89] (male first gonopod figured)

History of changes

• Myrine Galil, B.S. 2001. A revision of Myra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 75(24): 409-446 [434-435].

  Type species:

   Callidactylus kesslerii Paulson, 1875 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

History of changes

• Callidactylus kessleri Paul'son, O.M. 1875. Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea with notes regarding other seas. Part I. Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). English translation, Jerusalem, the Israel Program for Scientific Translations. pp. 143, pl 1-21 [85, pl.11, fig. 1].
• Myra darnleyensis Haswell, W.A. 1879. Contributions towards a monograph of Australian Leucosiidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(1): 44-66, pl. 5, 6 [Date published 16 June 1879: for publication date, see Fletcher (1896: 535)] [52, pl. 5, fig. 4].

Generic Combinations

• Myrine kesslerii (Paulson, 1875).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Fiji, New Caledonia, Madagascar, Seychelles, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and Australia.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

General References

Fletcher, J.J. 1896. On the dates of publication of the early volumes of the Society's Proceedings. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 10: 533-536 [535]

History of changes

• Nursia Leach, W.E. 1817. 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. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [20] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Nursia hardwickii Leach, 1817 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Nursia sinuata Miers, E.J. 1877. Notes upon oxystomatous Crustacea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 1: 235-249 pls 38-40 [239].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Moreton Bay, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Hard sand to mud and shell substrates, depth 4–14 m.

General References

Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [247] (as Nursia plicata sinuata)

History of changes

• Nursilia Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 3: 428-435 [434] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Nursilia dentata Bell, 1855 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Nursilia dentata Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [309 pl. 34 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Indian Ocean.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan and Fiji).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 15 to 80 m.

General References

Haswell, W.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Addenda et corrigenda. Sydney : Australian Museum xxiv 324 pp., 4 pls. [128] (Australian record)

History of changes

• Oreophorus Rüppell, E. 1830. Beschreibung und Abbildung von 24 Arten kurzschwänzigen Krabben, als Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte des rothen Meeres. Frankfurt am Main : H.L. Brönner 28 pp. pls 1-6. [18] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Oreophorus horridus Rüppell, 1830 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Tan, C.G.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 1995. A revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Oreophorus Rüppell, 1830 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae). pp. 101-189 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205. [105] (key to species)

History of changes

• Oreophorus reticulatus Adams, A. & White, A. 1849. Crustacea. Part II. 33-67 pls 7-13 in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Vogage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [54 pl. 6 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1847.21 ♀, Sunda Strait, Indonesia.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific (Persian Gulf to Indonesia); Australian records have not been confirmed.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

General References

Tan, C.G.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 1995. A revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Oreophorus Rüppell, 1830 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae). pp. 101-189 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205. [114]

History of changes

• Paranursia Serène, R. & Soh, C.L. 1976. Brachyura collected during the Thai-Danish Expedition (1966). Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 12: 1-37, figs 1-28, pls 1-7 [9] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Nursia abbreviata Bell, 1855 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

History of changes

• Nursia abbreviata Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [308 pl. 34 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Indian Ocean.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Karachi, Thailand).

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 6 m.

General References

Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [249] (figured, and Australian record)

History of changes

• Philyra Leach, W.E. 1817. 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. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [18] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Leucosia globus Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [131].

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Philyra angularis Rathbun, M.J. 1924. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expedition to Australia 1910–1913. 37. Brachyura, Albuneidae and Porcellanidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 16(23): 1-33, text-figs 1-7 pl. 1 [26 pl. 1 figs 13, 14].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀, Cape Jaubert, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

History of changes

• Leucosia orbicularis Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [284 pl. 30 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, coasts of Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Sand bottom, sublittoral.

General References

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [75] (male first gonopod figured)

History of changes

• Pseudophilyra Miers, E.J. 1879. On a collection of Crustacea made by Capt H.C. St. John, R.N., in the Corean and Japanese Seas. Part I. Podophthalmia. With and Appendix by Capt H.C. St. John. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1879: 18-61 pls 1-3 [40] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Pseudophilyra tridentata Miers, 1879 by subsequent designation, see Rathbun, M.J. 1922. Opinion 73. Five generic names in Crinoidea, eighty-six generic names in Crustacea, and eight generic names in Acarina, placed on the Official List of Generic Names. Opin. rend. Internat. Comm. Zool. Nomencl. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(1): 23-31.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

History of changes

• Leucosia perryi Miers, E.J. 1877. Notes upon oxystomatous Crustacea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 1: 235-249 pls 38-40 [238 pl. 38 figs 19-21].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Sharks Bay, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

History of changes