Species Metanephrops velutinus Chan & Yu, 1991

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• Metanephrops velutinus Chan, T.-Y. & Yu, H.P. 1991. Studies on the Metanephrops japonicus group (Decapoda, Nephropidae), with descriptions of two new species. Crustaceana 60(1): 18-51, text-figs 1-3 pls 1-9 [35 pls 2b, 4b, 6c, 8a].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTOU PM1 ♂, Philippines.
  Paratype(s) MNHP; RMNH D15458 5 specimens, Great Australian Bight, S by W of Eucla, WA; USNM; WAM; RMNH D25689 ♂, off Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Philippines, Indonesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE oceanic
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight
  • Western Australia: NW oceanic, S oceanic, W oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, oceanic province.

Trade

food

Extra Ecological Information

Substrate hard mud, probably in burrows, depth 238 to 702 m, most common 350 to 450 m.

 

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [390] (previously, this species was misidentified as M. andamanicus)

Griffin, D.J.G. & Stoddart, H.E. 1995. Deep-water decapod Crustacea from eastern Australia: lobsters of the families Nephropidae, Palinuridae, Polychelidae and Scyllaridae. Records of the Australian Museum 47(3): 231-263 [Date published 1 December 1995] [233]

Wadley, V. & Evans, D. 1991. Crustaceans from the Deepwater Trawl Fisheries of Western Australia. Hobart, Australia : CSIRO Division of Fisheries 44 pp. [37]

Wassenberg, T.J. &Hill, B.J. 1989. Diets of four decapod crustaceans (Linupurus trigonus, Metanephrops andamanicus, M. australiensis and M. boschmai) from the continental shelf around Australia. Marine Biology, Berlin 103: 161-167 (as M. andamanicus)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-May-2012		29-May-2012	MOVED
20-Oct-2011		20-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		03-Jun-2010	MODIFIED