Species Matuta planipes Fabricius, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Matuta planipes Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [369].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMUC 154–6 ♂, Indian Ocean.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMUC 154–7 ♀, Indian Ocean.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Galil, B.S. & Clark, P.F. 1994. A revision of the genus Matuta Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 294: 3-55 [36].
• Cancer americanus Seba, A. 1759. Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio per universam physices historiam. Amsterdam. Vol. 3. 212 pp. 116 pls [pl. 20 figs 10, 11] [pre-Linnaean, non-binominal].
• Matuta appendiculata Bosc, L.A.G. 1830. Manuel de L'Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces, contenant leur description et leurs moeurs; avec figures dessines d'apres nature. Edition Mise au niveau des connaissances actuelles par M.A.G. Desmarest. Paris : [s.n.] 328 pp. [222].
• Matuta rubrolineata Miers, E.J. 1877. Notes upon oxystomatous Crustacea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 1: 235-249 pls 38-40 [244 pl. 39(5, 6)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1874.2 ♂, Chufoo, Shantung Peninsula, China.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1993.13 ♂ 2♀, Indian Ocean; BMNH 1874.2 ♂ ♀; BMNH 1861.44 ♀; BMNH 1874.2 ♂ ♀, China; BMNH 1861.44 ♀, Pacific Ocean.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Galil, B.S. & Clark, P.F. 1994. A revision of the genus Matuta Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 294: 3-55 [36].
• Matuta lineifera Miers, E.J. 1877. Notes upon oxystomatous Crustacea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 1: 235-249 pls 38-40 [245 pl. 39(7)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1869.38 ♂, Nicol Bay, NW Australia.
• Matuta laevidactyla Miers, E.J. 1880. On a collection of Crustacea from the Malaysian Region. Part II. Telphusidea, Catametopa, and Oxystomata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5(28): 304-317 pl. 14 figs 1-5 [316].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1939.9.20.12–14 ♂, Ceylon.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1939.9.20.12–14 ♂ ♀, Ceylon.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Galil, B.S. & Clark, P.F. 1994. A revision of the genus Matuta Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 294: 3-55 [36].
• Matuta flagra Shen, C.-J. 1936. On a collection Brachyuran Decapoda from Hainan Island with descriptions of three new species. Chinese Journal of Zoology 2: 63-80, text-figs 1-4 [64 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Hainan Island.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Galil, B.S. & Clark, P.F. 1994. A revision of the genus Matuta Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 294: 3-55 [35]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (India to Japan, New Guinea).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

From shallow subtidal to about 40 m depth.

 

General References

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [71]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	02-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)