Species Medaeops granulosus (Haswell, 1882)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptodius granulosus Haswell, W.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Addenda et corrigenda. Sydney : Australian Museum xxiv 324 pp., 4 pls. [61].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P40834 ♂ (specimens AM G5573, AM P194, are also possible syntypes), Port Denison, QLD.
• Xantho macgillivrayi Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [211 pl. 20 fig. C].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Port Molle, QLD.
• Lophoxanthus erosus Parisi, B. 1916. I Decapodi Giapponesi del Museo di Milano. IV. Cyclometopa. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali 55: 153-190, text-figs 1-4 pls 7-11 [181 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MSNM 3♂, Tokyo Bay, Japan.
• Lophopanopeus japonicus Rathbun, M.J. 1898. The Brachyura of the biological expedition to the Florida Keys and the Bahamas in 1893. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 4(3): 250-294 pls 1-9 [272] [nom. nov.].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Tokyo : Kodansha 3 vols xxix 773 pp. [English vol.]; 1–16, 251 pls [Plates vol.]; 461 pp. [Japanese vol.]. [425]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (north to Japan).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Low intertidal, reef, rocky shore, shallow subtidal.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)