Species Liocarcinus corrugatus (Pennant, 1777)
- Cancer corrugatus Pennant, T. 1777. British Zoology, Volume 4, Crustacea Mollusca Testacea. London : B. White i-viii + 10 + 1-157 + 2 + 93 pls. [5 pl. 5 fig. 9].
Type data:
Status unknown, Plymouth, England. - Portunus strigilis Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Cancroidea et Coryoidea: 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 IV. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 31-40 [38].
Type data:
Status unknown, (presumed lost), 'Kagosima', Japan. - Cancer pellitus Forsskål, 1775 [nomen oblitum; suppressed under article 23.9 (refer to Ng, Guinot & Davie (in prep) Systema Brachyurorum: part I: an annotated checlist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the worls (second edition))].
- Portunus leachii Risso, 1827.
- ?Portunus borradailei Bennett, 1930.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Stephenson, W. & Campbell, B. 1960. The Australian Portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae) IV: Remaining Genera. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 11(1): 73-122 [92]
- McLay, C.L. 2009. New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochina A.Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae). Zootaxa 2111: 1-66 [43]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Atlantic-Indo-west 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)
Ecological Descriptors
Littoral, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Coarse sand and gravel to muddy sand, and in weed, to 147 m depth.
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. [459] (this species will likely prove to be confined to the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; Indo-west Pacific records may belong to up to four other closely related species, and if so, L. strigilis and L. subcorrugatus will probably prove to be good species; a careful taxonomic treatment is urgently needed, see <1080> [92] and
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 27-Mar-2012 | 27-Mar-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 20-Sep-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |