Species Mursia microspina Davie & Short, 1989
- Mursia microspina Davie, P.J.F. & Short, J.W. 1989. Deepwater Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from southern Queensland, Australia with descriptions of four new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27(2): 157-187 [172 figs 9a-g, 10].
Type data:
Holotype QM W11437 ♂, SE Queensland [27°35'S 153°50'E].
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Southeast Queensland, New Caledonia, Loyalty Island, and New Zealand.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Distribution References
- McLay, C.L. 2009. New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochina A.Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae). Zootaxa 2111: 1-66 [36-40]
- Poore, G.C.B., McCallum, A.W. & Taylor, J. 2008. Decapod Crustacea of the continental margin of southwestern and central Western Australia: preliminary identifications of 524 species from FRV Southern Surveyor voyage SS10-2005. Museum Victoria Reports 11. pp. 1-106 [42]
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 100–420 m.
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |