Species Monomia gladiator Fabricius, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Portunus (Monomia) gladiator Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [368] [Stephenson & Cook (1973) treated P. gladiator Fabricius, 1798, as a junior homonym of Portunus gladiator Fabricius, 1793 (= P. sanguinolentus (Herbst, 1783)); strictly, however, it was simply a misidentification of that species; P. gladiator Fabricius, 1798, is maintained here as a primary synonym of P. haanii because of the universal usage of the name P. gladiator for this species prior to publication of Stephenson, W. & Cook, S. 1973. Studies of Portunus gladiator complex and related species of Portunus (Crustacea: Decapoda). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(3): 415–434].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC 5 specimens, 'In Oceano Asiatico' (exact locality not known, the collector I.K. Daldorff mainly obtained his material from Tranquebar, south-east India, but also from Sumatra, Indonesia, see [225]).

  Secondary source:

   Stephenson, W. & Cook, S. 1973. Studies of Portunus gladiator complex and related species of Portunus (Crustacea: Decapoda). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(3): 415-434; Windsor, A.M., Mendoza, J.C.E. & Deeds, J.R. 2019. Resolution of the Portunus gladiator species complex: taxonomic status and identity of Monomia gladiator (Fabricius, 1798) and Monomia haanii (Stimpson, 1858) (Brachyura, Decapoda, Portunidae). ZooKeys 858: 11-43.
• Cancer menestho Herbst, 1803.
• Lupea gladiator Milne Edwards, H. 1834. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces Animaux. Paris : Librairie encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 1 xxxv 468 pp. [456].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stephenson, W. & Cook, S. 1973. Studies of Portunus gladiator complex and related species of Portunus (Crustacea: Decapoda). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(3): 415-434 [426]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan and New Caledonia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Bottoms of sand, broken shell and pebble, coral rubble, sponge, seaweed, from 30–350 m depth.

 

History of changes

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