Species Leptomithrax globifer Rathbun, 1918

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptomithrax globifer Rathbun, M.J. 1918. Report on the spider crabs obtained by the F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. pp. 1–29 figs 1–3 pls 1–15 in, Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried out by the F.I.S. "Endeavour", 1909–14. Sydney : Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Trade and Customs. Vol. 5 398 pp. [23 pls 10, 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P3533 ♂, Cape Gloucester, QLD (originally published as 'Southern Australia').

  Type locality references:

  Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1993. Catalogue of Crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1-134.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, 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), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 150–220 m.

 

General References

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

 

History of changes

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