• Macropodia Leach, W.E. 1814. Crustaceology. pp. 383-437 in Brewster, D. Sir (ed.). The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh : John Murray Baldwin & Cradocle Vol. 7 (2). [395] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer longirostris Fabricius, 1775 by monotypy.
• Peridromus Gistel, J. 1848. Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs für höhere schulen bearbeitet. Stuttgart xvi 216 pp., 32 pls. [ix] [unnecessary replacement name for Macropodia Leach, 1814 (as Macropus); gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cancer longirostris Fabricius, 1775 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, western Indian, and SW Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13)

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 [294]

History of changes

• Macropodia trigonus Richer de Forges, B. 1993. Deep sea crabs of the Tasman Seamounts (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Records of the Australian Museum 45: 11-24 [14 figs 5a-c].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P40740 ♀, Taupo Seamount, Tasman Sea.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathyal, oceanic province.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 244 m.

History of changes