Genus Ocypode Weber, 1795

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ocypode 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. [92] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer ceratophthalmus Pallas, 1772 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature]; Holthuis, L.B. 1962. Forty-seven genera of Decapoda (Crustacea); Proposed addition to the Official List. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 19: 183, 232-252.
• Ocypode Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [312, 347] [junior objective homonym of Ocypode Weber, 1795; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer ceratophthalmus Pallas, 1772 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature]; Holthuis, L.B. 1962. Forty-seven genera of Decapoda (Crustacea); Proposed addition to the Official List. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 19: 183, 232-252.
• Monolepis Say, T. 1817. An account of the Crustacea of the United States, continued. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1(7): 155-168 [155] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Monolepis inermis Say, 1817 by subsequent designation, see Fowler, H.W. 1912. The Crustacea of New Jersey. Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum 1911: 29-650, pls 1-150 (= Cancer quadratus Fabricius, 1787).
• Ceratophthalma MacLeay, W.S. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. pp. 53–71 pl. 3 in, Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". London. 75 pp. 4 pls [64] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer cursor Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Parocypoda Neumann, R. 1878. Systematische Uebersicht der Gattungen der Oxyrhynchen: Catalog der podophthalmen Crustaceen des Heidelberger Museums. Beschreibung einiger neuer Arten. Leipzig. 39 pp. [26] [junior objective synonym of Ocypode Weber, 1795; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer ceratophthalmus Pallas, 1772 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Manning, R.B. & Holthuis, L.B. 1981. West African Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 306: i-xii, 1-379 figs 1-88, 2 appendices [217]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical and subtropical coasts of all the major oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Sakai, K. & Türkey, M. 2012. Revision of the Genus Ocypode with the description of a new genus, Hoplocypode (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 56(2): 665-793

 

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)