Species Litocheira bispinosa Kinahan, 1856

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• Litocheira bispinosa 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 [121 pl. 3 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Port Phillip, VIC.
• Melia brevipes Haswell, W.A. 1881. On some new Australian Brachyura. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(3): 540-551 [545].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM P221 specimens, Griffith's Point, Western Port, VIC; AM P718 (not found), Griffith's Point, Western Port, VIC; AM P2971, Griffith's Point, Western Port, VIC.
• Brachygrapsus laevis Kingsley, J.S. 1880. Carcinological Notes. No. 4. Synopsis of the Grapsidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 32: 187-224 [203].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 3051 ♂, New Zealand.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McCulloch, A.R. 1913. Studies in Australian Crustacea. No. 3. Records of the Australian Museum 9: 320-353 figs 42-53 pls 10-11 [323]
• Türkay, M. 1975. Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Euchirograpsus mit Bemerkungen zu Brachygrapsus and Litocheira (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenbergiana Biologica 56(1): 103-132 figs 1-32 [123]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Possibly extending to New Zealand.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

Benthic, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

With algae, under rocks in muddy areas.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
27-Mar-2012		27-Mar-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)