Species Myra fugax (Fabricius, 1798)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leucosia fugax Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [351].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC, unknown (the collector, I.K. Daldorff, obtained his material mainly from Tranquebar, south-east India).
• Myra pentacantha Alcock, A. 1896. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2. The Brachyura Oxystoma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 65(Pt 2 No. 2): 134-296 pls 6-8 [204].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) IM (probable depository institution), India.
• Cancer punctatus Herbst, J.F.W. 1783. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Zurich : Joh. Casper Fuessly Vol. 1 Pts 2–5 pp. 87–182 pls 2–9. [3 volumes and an Atlas published from 1782–1804] [89 pl. 2 figs 15-16] [junior homonym of Cancer punctatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Brachyura: Leucosiidae) pre-occupied name].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB Herbst 2190 ♂, East Indies; ZMB Herbst 2187 1♂ 1♀, East Indies.
• Myra carinata 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] [49] [nomen nudum; nom. nud.].
• Myra carinata Bell, T. 1855. Horae Carcinologicae or Notices of Crustacea. I. A Monograph of the Leucosiidae, with observations on the relations, structure, habits and distribution of the family; a revision of the generic characters; and descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 277-314 pl. 4 [297 pl. 32 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Cageyan, Philippines.
• Leucosia fugax Weber, F. 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum entomologian systematicam ill. Fabricii, adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus. Chiloni et Hamburgi : C.E. Bohn viii 171 pp. [nomen nudum; nom. nud.].
• Myra longimerus Chen & Tϋrkay, 2001.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tirmizi, N.M. & Kazmi, Q.B. 1988. Crustacea: Brachyura (Dromiacea, Archaeobrachyura, Oxystomata, Oxyrhyncha). Marine Fauna of Pakistan, 4, Karachi: BCCI Foundation Chair, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Karachi 6, 246 pp., 2 colour frontispiece. [89]
• Sakai, K. 1999. J. F. W. Herbst-Collection of decapod Crustacea of the Berlin Zoological Museum, with remarks on certain species. Naturalists, Tokushima Biological Laboratory, Shikoku University 6: 1-45 pls 1-21 [17]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean, east through Indonesia to China, Japan, and New Caledonia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy to muddy sand and shell substrates, depth 50 to 200 m.

 

General References

Rathbun, M.J. 1924. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expedition to Australia 1910–1913. 37. Brachyura, Albuneidae and Porcellanidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 16(23): 1-33, text-figs 1-7 pl. 1 [26] (first Australian record)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Dec-2016	DECAPODA Latreille, 1803	04-Apr-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
30-Mar-2012		03-Aug-2011	MOVED
10-May-2012		29-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)