Genus Liocarcinus Stimpson, 1871
- Liocarcinus 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 [145] [gender masculine].
Type species:
Portunus holsatus Fabricius, 1798 by original designation.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans.
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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
General References
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 [83] (formally separated Liocarcinus from Macropipus, with which it had been in synonymy, and discussed generic differences)
History of changes
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04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
27-Mar-2012 | 27-Mar-2012 | MOVED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |