Species Myomenippe fornasinii (Bianconi, 1851)
- Menippe fornasinii Bianconi, G. 1851. Specimina zoologica Mosambicana. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna 3(Fasc. 5): 91-112 pls 10-11.
Type data:
Status unknown, Mosambique, East Africa. - Pararupellia saxicola Haswell, W.A. 1881. On some new Australian Brachyura. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(3): 540-551 [546].
Type data:
Status unknown, Port Essington, NT. - Cancer (Menippe) quadridens De Haan, W. 1833. Crustacea. i-xvii, i-xxxi, ix-xvi, 1-243 pls A-J, in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [21] [nom. nud.].
- Cancer (Menippe) dentatus De Haan, W. 1833. Crustacea. i-xvii, i-xxxi, ix-xvi, 1-243 pls A-J, in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [pl. B] [junior homonym of Cancer dentatus Herbst, 1785].
Type data:
Holotype RMNH ♀ (dry), Moluccas, Indonesia.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Serène, R. 1968. The Brachyura of the Indo-West Pacific Region. pp. 33-112 in Serène, R. (ed.). Prodromus for a Checklist of the Nonplanktonic Marine Fauna of Southeast Asia. Singapore : Singapore National Academy of Sciences, Special Publication Vol. 1. [82]
- Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The non-Japanese new species established by W. de Haan in the Crustacea Volume of Fauna Japonica (1833–1850). pp. 599-646 in Yamaguchi, T. (ed.). Ph.F von Siebold and Natural History in Japan. Crustacea. Tokyo : The Carcinological Society of Japan. [620]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Indo-Malaysian region).
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
Intertidal, shallow subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Common under rocks and in hollows in logs, on sandy-mud flats away from mangroves.
General References
Serène, R. 1984. Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures de l'Océan Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Avec un addendum par Crosnier, A.: Carpilliidae et Menippidae. Faune Tropicale 24: 1-400 figs A-C, 1-243 pls 1-48 [308] (in key)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 27-Mar-2012 | 27-Mar-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |