Species Metopograpsus latifrons (White, 1847)
- Grapsus latifrons White, A. 1847. Descriptions of a new genus and five new species of Crustacea. 335-338 pl. 2 figs 1-3 in Jukes, J.B. (ed.). Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N. in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842–1846: together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2. [40].
Type data:
Status unknown, BMNH, Eastern Seas, Singapore. - Metopograpsus maculatus Milne Edwards, H. 1853. Mémoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris Zoology 3 20: 163-228 pls 6-11 [165].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP, Java. - Metopograpsus pictus Milne Edwards, A. 1867. Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles de Crustacés Brachyures. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 7: 263-288 [283].
Type data:
Holotype MZUT Cr.1026, Nouvelle-Calédonie [New Caledonia]. - Grapsus (Grapsus) dilatatus de Man, J.G. 1879. On some new or imperfectly known Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Leyden Museum. Notes from the Leyden Museum 1: 53-73 [68].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RMNH D74 1♀, Timor, Indonesia; RMNH D42233 1 dry specimen, Java, Indonesia; RMNH D45033 13 dry specimens, Java, Indonesia. - Grapsus (Grapsus) dilatatus De Haan, W. in Herklots, J.A. 1861. Symbolae carcinologicae. Études sur la classe des Crustacés. p. 27. [129] [nom. nud.].
- Grapsus latifrons 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] [40] [nom. nud.].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Banerjee, S.K. 1960. Biological Results of the Snellius Expedition. XVIII. The Genera Grapsus, Geograpsus and Metopograpsus (Crustacea Brachyura). Temminckia 10: 132-199 figs 1-6 [177]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (southern India to New Caledonia).
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, low intertidal, mangrove.
Extra Ecological Information
Lives on trunks and roots of mangrove trees near the water.
General References
Morgan, G.J. 1990. A collection of Thalassinidea, Anomura and Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 265: 1-90 [58] (Australian distributional data)
History of changes
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| 04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |