Species Monomia argentata (A. Milne Edwards, 1861)
- Neptunus argentatus Milne Edwards, A. 1861. Etudes zoologiques sur les Crustacés récents de la famille des Portuniens. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 10: 309-428 pls 28-38 [332, 339 pl. 31 fig. 4].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH, mouth of Lundu River, Borneo. - Amphitrite argentata 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] [127] [nom. nud.].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Stephenson, W. 1961. The Australia Portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae). V. Recent collections. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 12(1): 92-128 pls 1-5 [105]
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (southern Africa to Japan and Hawai'i).
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Sand bottom, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Sand to mud substrates, 10–150 m depth.
General References
Stephenson, W. 1972. An annotated check list and key to the Indo-west Pacific swimming crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae). Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 10: 1-64 [38]
Stephenson, W. & Rees, M. 1967. Some Portunid crabs from the Pacific and Indian Oceans in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 120(3556): 1-114 9 pls [16] (described two forms of male first gonopods)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 20-May-2023 | PORTUNIDAE Rafinesque, 1815 | 04-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |