Species Matuta victor (Fabricius, 1781)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer victor Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species Insectorum exhibentes eorum Differentias, specificas, Synonyma auctorum, Loca natalia, Metamorphosia adiectis Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Hamburg & Kilonii : C.E. Bohnii Vol. 2 viii 552 pp. [502].

  Type data:

   Neotype ZMUC 49–1 ♂, Madras, Tranquebar, India.

  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 [40].
• Matuta peronii Leach, W.E. 1817. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals … illustrated with coloured figures drawn from nature by R.P. Nodder &c. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [13 pl. 127(1, 2)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1993.19 ♀, 1 juvenile, India;
  Status unknown.
• Matuta lesueurii Leach, W.E. 1817. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals … illustrated with coloured figures drawn from nature by R.P. Nodder &c. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 3 pp. i-vi 1-152 pls 121-149. [14].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 100 2♂, Pondicherry, India.

  Type locality 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 [41].
• Matuta victrix crebrepunctata Miers, E.J. 1877. Notes upon oxystomatous Crustacea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 1: 235-249 pls 38-40 [244 pl. 39 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1844.6 ♂, Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1862.172 ♂ ♀, Vanua lenu, Fiji; BMNH 1876.14 ♀; BMNH 1862.53 ♂ ♀, Ngau, Fiji; BMNH 1876.14 ♀, Malekula, New Hebrides.

  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.

 

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 [39]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan and Fiji).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sand bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy areas from low intertidal to about 20 m depth.

 

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)