• Oziinae Dana, J.D. 1851. On the Classification of the Cancroidea. American Journal of Science and Arts 12(34): 121-131 [127].

  Type genus:

   Ozius H. Milne Edwards, 1834.

Diagnosis

Carapace subovate to quadrate. Orbital margin enclosed, but orbital hiatus may or may not be completely closed; antennae positioned nearer to orbits and antennules, may or may not be lodged in orbital hiatus, flagellum occasionally inserted in shallow cleft at external edge of frontal margin. Third maxilliped merus notched at outer margin. Major chela with crushing or cutting molariform tooth; fingers of minor chela usually forceps-like. Male second gonopod with distal part subequal or longer than subdistal part, tapering gradually to tip.

History of changes

• Bountiana Davie, P.J.F. & Ng, P.K.L. 2000. Bountiana, a new genus for Eriphia norfolcensis Grant & McCulloch, 1907 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Eriphiidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45(2): 267-272 [267] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Eriphia norfolcensis Grant & McCulloch, 1907 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

SW Pacific Ocean.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

History of changes

• Eriphia norfolcensis Grant, F.E. & McCulloch, A.R. 1907. Decapod Crustacea from Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32(1): 151-156 1 pl. [151 pl. i fig. 1a,b].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM G5827 ♂, Norfolk Island, Tasman Sea.
  Paralectotype(s) AM G5827 1♀, 1 juvenile, Norfolk Island, Tasman Sea.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Davie, P.J.F. & Ng, P.K.L. 2000. Bountiana, a new genus for Eriphia norfolcensis Grant & McCulloch, 1907 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Eriphiidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45(2): 267-272 [270].

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

SW Pacific Ocean.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones in rock crevices and elsewhere between tide marks.

History of changes

• Epixanthus Heller, C. 1861. Beiträge zur Crustaceen-Fauna des rothen Meeres. Erster Theil. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 43(1): 297-374 pls 1-4 [323] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Epixanthus kotschii Heller, 1861 by monotypy (= Epixanthus frontalis H. Milne Edwards, 1834).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans.

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)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Panopeus dentatus White, A. 1848. Short descriptions of new or little known decapod Crustacea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London [1847]15: 222-228 [228].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Philippines.
• Panopeus acutidens Haswell, W.A. 1881. On some new Australian Brachyura. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(3): 540-551 [542].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM G5548, Port Darwin, NT.
• Panopeus dentatus White, 1848 [nom. nud.].
• Epixanthus dilatatus de Man, J.G. 1879. On some new or imperfectly known Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Leyden Museum. Notes from the Leyden Museum 1: 53-73 [58-59].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH D504 1♂ 1♀, Java, Indonesia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Alcock, A. 1898. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The Family Xanthidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 67(Pt 2 No. 1): 67-233 [185]

Generic Combinations

• Epixanthus dentatus (White, 1848).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

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, mangrove, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Typically in logs and in crevices in mangrove trunks.

History of changes

• Ozius frontalis 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. [406].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Tranquebar, south-eastern India.
• Epixanthus kotschii Heller, C. 1861. Beiträge zur Crustaceen-Fauna des rothen Meeres. Erster Theil. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 43(1): 297-374 pls 1-4 [325 pl. 2 fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Red Sea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Alcock, A. 1898. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The Family Xanthidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 67(Pt 2 No. 1): 67-233 [185]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan and east to Tuvalu Archipelago).

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.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks and pebbles of rocky outcrops on sheltered sandy beaches.

History of changes

• Eupilumnus Kossmann, R. 1877. Malacostraca (1. Theil: Brachyura). Chapter Erste Halfte, III. 1-66 pls 1-3 in Kossmann, R. (ed.). Zoologische Ergebnisse einer im Auftrage der Königlichen Academie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin ausgeführten Reise in die Küstengebiete des Rothen Meeres. Leipzig : W. Engelmann. [38] [first introduced as a subgenus of Pilumnus Leach, 1815; gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Pilumnus actumnoides A. Milne Edwards, 1873 by subsequent designation, see Rathbun, M.J. 1930. The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 152: i-xvi 1-609, text-figs 1-85 pls 1-230 [481].
• Globopilumnus Balss, H. 1933. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gattung Pilumnus (Crustacea Dekapoda) und verwandter Gattungen. Capita Zoologica 4(3): 1-47, text-figs 1-5 pls 1-7 [6] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Pilumnus globosus Dana, 1852 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ng, P.K.L., Wang, C-H., Ho, P-H. & Shih, H-T. 2001. An annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, Taipei, Taiwan No. 11: 1-86, 8 colour pls

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Pilumnus laciniatus Sakai, T. 1980. On new or rare crabs taken from Japanese and Central Pacific Waters. Researches on Crustacea 10: 73-84, 1 frontispiece, text-figs 1-3 pl.

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, Kumano-dada, Mie Prefecture, Japan.

  Type locality references:

  Ng, P.K.L. 1992. The Indo-Pacific Pilumnidae VIII. Pilumnus laciniatus Sakai, 1980—A senior synonym of Globopilumnus multituberosus Garth & Kim, 1983 (Decapoda, Brachyura). Crustaceana 63(2): 221-222.
• Globopilumnus multituberosus Garth, J.S. & Kim, H.S. 1983. Crabs of the family Xanthidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) from the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters based largely on collections of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross" in 1908–1909. Journal of Natural History 17: 663-729 figs 1-14 tables 1, 2 [689 figs 6, 4c,d].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 195347 ♂, Philippines.
  Paratype(s) 10♀ 1♂.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ng, P.K.L. 1992. The Indo-Pacific Pilumnidae VIII. Pilumnus laciniatus Sakai, 1980—A senior synonym of Globopilumnus multituberosus Garth & Kim, 1983 (Decapoda, Brachyura). Crustaceana 63(2): 221-222 [221]

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

From 258–624 m depth.

History of changes

• Lydia Gistel, J. 1848. Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs für höhere schulen bearbeitet. Stuttgart xvi 216 pp., 32 pls. [ix] [nom. nov. for Cancer (Eudora) De Haan, 1833; gender feminine].
• Eurueppellia Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [534] [nom. nov. for Ruppellia H. Milne Edwards, 1834; gender feminine].
• Eudora 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] [22, 23] [first introduced as a subgenus of Cancer Linnaeus, 1758; junior homonym of Eudora Péron & Lesueur, 1810 [Cnidaria]; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer tenax Rüppell, 1830 by subsequent designation, see 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. [623].
• Rueppellia 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. [junior homonym of Rueppellia Wiedemann, 1830 [Insecta]; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Rueppellia annulipes H. Milne Edwards, 1834 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Tokyo : Kodansha 3 vols xxix 773 pp. [English vol.]; 1–16, 251 pls [Plates vol.]; 461 pp. [Japanese vol.]. [477]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

History of changes

• Ruppellia annulipes 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. [422].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (probable depository institution), locality unknown.
• Lydia danae Ward, M. 1939. The Brachyura of the Second Templeton Crocker-American Museum Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. American Museum Novitates No. 1049: 1-15 figs 1-17.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH 2♀, Penrhyn Is. [Tongareva], Cook Islands.
• Euxanthus rugulosus Heller, C. 1865. Crustaceen. Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil 2(3). 1-280 pp. [12].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda—Anomura, Brachyura. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiv 641 pp. [177]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal.

General References

Garth, J.S. & Kim, H.S. 1983. Crabs of the family Xanthidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) from the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters based largely on collections of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross" in 1908–1909. Journal of Natural History 17: 663-729 figs 1-14 tables 1, 2 [691]

History of changes

• Ozius 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. [404] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Ozius tuberculosus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Xantho deplanatus 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] [17].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Garden Is., Sydney, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean.

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, rocky shore.

History of changes

• Ozius guttatus 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. [406].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia.
• Ozius speciosus Hilgendorf, F. 1869. Crustaceen. In, Decken, C. von der (ed.) Reisen in Ost-Afrika in den Jahren 1859–1865. Heidelberg-Leipzig. Vol. 3, Pt 1. pp. 67-116, p. 147 pls 1-6.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, east Africa.
• Cancer (Eudora) incisus 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] [23] [nom. nud.].
• Ozius guttatus garcianensis Ward, M. 1942. Notes on the Crustacea of the Desjardins Museum, Mauritius Institute with descriptions of new genera and species. Mauritius Institute Bulletin 2(2): 49-113 pls 5-6 [94 pl. 6 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DM 2♂, Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago.
• Panopeus formio Adams, A. & White, A. 1849. Crustacea. Part II. 33-67 pls 7-13 in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Vogage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [42 pl. 9 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Eastern Seas.
• Panopeus formio 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] [126] [nom. nud.].

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.
• Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Tokyo : Kodansha 3 vols xxix 773 pp. [English vol.]; 1–16, 251 pls [Plates vol.]; 461 pp. [Japanese vol.]. [473]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, muddy sand, rocky shore.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks.

History of changes

• Ozius rugulosus Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Cancroidea et Coryoidea: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars IV. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 31-40 [34].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (probably lost), Bonin [Ogasawara] Islands.
• Ozius rugulosus mauritiensis Ward, M. 1942. Notes on the Crustacea of the Desjardins Museum, Mauritius Institute with descriptions of new genera and species. Mauritius Institute Bulletin 2(2): 49-113 pls 5-6 [94 pl. 5 fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype DM ♂, Port-Louis, Mauritius.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda—Anomura, Brachyura. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiv 641 pp. [182]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, reef, rocky shore.

Extra Ecological Information

Inhabits the crevices of rocks or coral.

History of changes

• Ozius truncatus 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. [406 pl. 16 fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic to Australia and its island territories.

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, reef, rocky shore, under stones.

History of changes

• Ozius tuberculosus 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. [405].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Mauritius, Indian Ocean.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, reef, rocky shore.

History of changes