Species Lamarckdromia globosa (Lamarck, 1818)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dromia globosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp.

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP B22033 ♂ (The specimen was dry, badly damaged (smashed to pieces). This has been designated as the lectotype by Guinot & Tavares (2003: 70), and is considered to be the type of the species), locality unknown.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cleva, R., Guinot, D. & Albenga, L. 2007. Annotated catalogue of brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) deposited in the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Part 1. Podotremata. Zoosystema 29(2): 1-51 [13].
• Dromia ciliata Henderson, J.R. 1888. Report on the Anomura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 27: 1-221 21 pls [3-5 pl. 1 fig 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, off East Moncoeur Is., Bass Strait (Challenger Stn 162).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [146]
• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [137]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

Littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth to 180 m.

 

General References

Guinot, D. & Tavares, M. 2003. A new subfamilial arrangement for the Dromiidae de Haan, 1833, with diagnoses and descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Zoosystema 25(1): 43-129 [70]

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. [110] (description and photo, as Dromidiopsis excavata)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	DROMIIDAE De Haan, 1833	08-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
21-Jul-2011		21-Jul-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)