Species Menaethius monoceros (Latreille, 1825)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pisa monoceros Latreille, P.A. 1825. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris. Vol. 10. Pt 1. 832 pp. [139].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (probable depository institution), Mauritius.
• Inachus arabicus Rüppell, E. 1830. Beschreibung und Abbildung von 24 Arten kurzschwänzigen Krabben, als Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte des rothen Meeres. Frankfurt am Main : H.L. Brönner 28 pp. pls 1-6. [24 pl. 5 fig. 5, pl. 6 fig. 19].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Red Sea.
• Menaethius porcellus Adams, A. & White, A. 1848. Crustacea. Part I. 1-66 pls I-XIII in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1843–1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [19].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Mauritius.
• Menaethius subserratus Adams, A. & White, A. 1848. Crustacea. Part I. 1-66 pls I-XIII in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1843–1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [18 pl. 4 figs 1, 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Philippines.
• Menaethius tuberculatus Adams, A. & White, A. 1848. Crustacea. Part I. 1-66 pls I-XIII in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1843–1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [19].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Mauritius.
• Menaethius angustus Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea. U. S. Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia : C. Sherman Vol. 13 1618 pp. [Pt 1: 1–685; Pt 2: 686–1618] [120, 121].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), locality unknown.
• Menaethius depressus Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea. U. S. Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia : C. Sherman Vol. 13 1618 pp. [Pt 1: 1–685; Pt 2: 686–1618] [121 pl. 4 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), Sulu Sea, Philippines and Upolu, Samoa.
• Menaethius areolatus Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea. U. S. Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia : C. Sherman Vol. 13 1618 pp. [Pt 1: 1–685; Pt 2: 686–1618] [124].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), Sulu Sea, Philippines.
• Menaethius inornatus Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea. U. S. Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia : C. Sherman Vol. 13 1618 pp. [Pt 1: 1–685; Pt 2: 686–1618] [125].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), Lahaina, Hawai'i.
• Menaethius dentatus Stimpson, W. 1858. Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expenditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Sententrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars III. Crustacea Maioidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 9: 216-221 [219].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, USNM (presumed lost in Chicago fire of 1871), 'Amakirrima Isles, near Great Loo Choo' [Ryukyu Ils].
• Menaethius rugosus Milne Edwards, A. 1862. Faune carcinologique de l'île de la Réunion, Annexe F de l'ouvrage intitulé: Notes sur l'île de la Réunion par L. Maillard. F1-F16 pls 17-19 in L. Maillard (ed.). Notes sur l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Paris : [s.n.]. [F7 pl. 17 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Réunion.
• Menaethius porcellus White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [10] [nom. nud.].
• Menaethius subserratus White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [10] [nom. nud.].
• Menaethius tuberculatus White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [10] [nom. nud.].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tirmizi, N.M. & Kazmi, Q.B. 1988. Crustacea: Brachyura (Dromiacea, Archaeobrachyura, Oxystomata, Oxyrhyncha). Marine Fauna of Pakistan, 4, Karachi: BCCI Foundation Chair, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Karachi 6, 246 pp., 2 colour frontispiece. [170]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan and east to Hawai'i and French Polynesia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, rock reef, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with coral, epifaunal communities and seaweed.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
15-Feb-2012		15-Feb-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		03-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)