Species Metasesarma obesum (Dana, 1851)

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Regional Maps

• Sesarma obesum Dana, J.D. 1851. Conspectus Crustacearum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descriptsit J.D. Dana. Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Cyclometopa, Edwardsii). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 5: 247-254 [252] [original figure of Sesarma obesum provided by Dana (1852: pl. 22, fig. 10)].
• Metasesarma rousseauxi Milne Edwards, H. 1853. Mémoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris Zoology 3 20: 163-228 pls 6-11 [188].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Zanzibar.
• Metasesarma granularis Heller, C. 1862. Neue Crustaceen, gesammelt während der Weltumseglung der k.k. Fregatte Novarra: Zweiter vorläufiger Bericht. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 519-528 [522].
• Metasesarma rugulosa Heller, C. 1865. Crustaceen. In, Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte `Novara' um die Erdre, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zool. Theil. 2(3): 1–280, pls 1–25. [65].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ng, P.K.L. & Schubart, C.D. 2003. On the identities of Sesarma obesum Dana, 1851, and Sesarma eydouxi H. Milne Edwards, 1853 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Sesarmidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 25(3): 425-437 [426] (abbreviated synonymy and new combination)

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Philippines and New Guinea, possibly to Tahiti, Tuamotu and Samoa).

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Leaf litter, supratidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Fringing mangrove habitats

General References

Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea, Part I. United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. 13 (2): 686-1618. C. Sherman, Philadelphia. Atlas [1855]. Vol. 14, 27 p., pls 1-96. [pl. 22, fig. 10]

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda—Anomura, Brachyura. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiv 641 pp. [222] (as Metasesarma rousseauxi H. Milne Edwards, 1853)

Ng, P.K.L. & Davie, P.J.F. 1995. The terrestrial crabs of the genera Metasesarma and Geosesarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae) of Ujung Kulon, West Jawa, Indonesia. Tropical Biodiversity 3(1): 29-43 (as Metasesarma rousseauxi; distribution and colour)

Ng, P.K.L. & Schubart, C.D. 2003. On the identities of Sesarma obesum Dana, 1851, and Sesarma eydouxi H. Milne Edwards, 1853 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Sesarmidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 25(3): 425-437 [426] (abbreviated synonymy and new combination of Metasesarma obesum (Dana, 1851))

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