• 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.

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

• Cancer ceratophthalmus Pallas, J. 1772. Spicelegia Zoologica. Berlolini. Fasc. 9. [83 pl. 5 figs 7, 8].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), India.

  Type locality references:

  George, R.W. & Knott, M.E. 1965. The Ocypode Ghost Crabs of Western Australia (Crustacea, Brachyura). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 48(1): 15-21 figs 1-3 [18].
• Ocypode urvillei Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1829. Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier. Insectes. Paris & London : J. B. Baillière 576 pp., 104pls. [1829-1844] [T. 1 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP (can no longer be found and thus presumed lost), Tahiti.
• Ocypoda macleayana Hess, W. 1865. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Decapoden-Krebse Ost-Australiens. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 31: 127-173 pls 6-7 [143 pl. 6 fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMG 126 1 juvenile (now transferred to SMF), Sydney.
• Cancer francisci Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp. [175].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• de Man, J.G. 1887. Uebersicht der Indo-pacifischen Arten der Gattung Sesarma Say, nebst einer Kritik der von W. Hess und E. Nauck in den Jahren 1865 und 1880 beschriebenen Decapoden. Zoologische Jahrbücher 2: 639-722 pl. 17 [696]
• Sakai, K. & Türkay, M. 1976. Bemerkungen zu einigen Ocypode-Arten (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenbergiana Biologica 57(1/3): 81-96 [87]
• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56 [45 (Table 1), 51]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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 Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, coral reef, intertidal, marine, ocean beach, predator.

General References

Barrass, R. 1963. The burrows of Ocypode ceratophthalma (Pallas) (Crustacea, Ocypodidae) on a tidal wave beach at Inhaca Island, Mocambique. Journal of Animal Ecology 32: 73-85

History of changes

• Ocypode convexa Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1824. Crustacés. 522-524 pls 76-82 in Freycinet, L. de (ed.). Le voyage autour du Monde sur les corvettes l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817–1820. Paris : Pilet Ainé Vol. 3. [525 pl. 77 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (probable depository institution if extant), Dirk Hartogs Island, Shark Bay, WA.
• Ocypode pygoides Ortmann, A.E. 1894. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums. VIII. Theil. Abtheilung; Brachyura (Brachyura genuina Boas) III. Unterabtheilung: Cancroidea, 2. Section: Cancrinea, 2. Grupe: Catometopa. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 7: 683-772 pl. 23 [766 pl. 23 fig. 19].

  Type data:

   Holotype MS ♂, Naturalist's Channel, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• George, R.W. & Knott, M.E. 1965. The Ocypode Ghost Crabs of Western Australia (Crustacea, Brachyura). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 48(1): 15-21 figs 1-3 [19]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, predator, sand beaches, supratidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Burrows high on sandy beaches, above strand line.

History of changes

• Ocypode cordimanus Desmarest, A.G. 1825. Considérations générales sur la classe des Crustacés, et description des espèces de ces animaux qui vivent dans la mer, sur les côtes ou dans les eaux douces de la France. Paris. i-xix 1-446 pp. [121].

  Type data:

   Neotype SMF 1948 ♂, Bertrand Island [Tendanye] off N coast of New Guinea.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Sakai, K. & Türkay, M. 1977. Die Deutung von Ocypode cordimanus Latreille 1818, mit Festlegung eines Neotypus (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenbergiana Biologica 58(1/2): 97-100 [97].
• Cancer robertii Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp. [175].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56 [45 (Table 1), 52]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, coral reef, ocean beach, predator, sand substrate, supratidal.

General References

Huang, J.-F., Yang, S.-L & Ng, P.K.L. 1998. Notes on the taxonomy and distribution of two closely related species of ghost crabs, Ocypode sinensis and O. cordimanus (Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae). Crustaceana 71(8): 942-954 [952] (taxonomic comparisons, figures, distributional data)

History of changes

• Ocypode fabricii Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, 'Oceanie'.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean (Madagascar).

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, intertidal, ocean beach, predator, supratidal.

General References

George, R.W. & Knott, M.E. 1965. The Ocypode Ghost Crabs of Western Australia (Crustacea, Brachyura). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 48(1): 15-21 figs 1-3 [18] (Australian distribution)

History of changes

• Ocypode kuhlii De Haan, W. 1835. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 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 : Lugundi-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [58].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH D217 ♂, Java, Indonesia.
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH D216 ♂, Indonesia, Java; RMNH D42245 2 dry specimens, Indonesia, Java.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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. [626].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (east coast of South Africa to Japan and central Pacific).

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, coastal, intertidal, sand beaches, supratidal.

History of changes

• Ocypode pallidula Jacquinot, H. in Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, H. 1846. Atlas d'Histoire Naturelle Zoologie par MM. Hombron et Jacquinot, chirurgiens de l'expédition. In, Voyage au pôle sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée; exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840 sous les commandement de M. Dumont d'Urville capitaine de vaisseau publié sous les auspices du département de la marine et sous la direction superieure de M. Jacquinot, capitaine de Vaisseau, commandant de La Zelee. Livraison 17.; Oiseaux pls 18, 29; Crustacés pl. 6; Insectes pls 9, 18. Paris : Gide. [pl. 6 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP B4027S ♀, Mangarewa, Gambier Is., Tuamotu Archipelago.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP B4027S 1♀, Mangarewa, Gambier Is., Tuamotu Archipelago; MNHP B3307S 1♂; MNHP B3307S ♂, Mangarewa, Gambier Is., Tuamotu Archipelago.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Sakai, K. & Türkay, M. 1976. Bemerkungen zu einigen Ocypode-Arten (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenbergiana Biologica 57(1/3): 81-96 [87].
• Ocypoda laevis Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea, Part 1. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(1): 1-685 [325 pl. 20 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Hawai'i (as Sandwich Islands).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Jones, D.S. 1988. The occurrence of Ocypode pallidula Jacquinot (Decapoda, Brachyura) in Australia and the Coral Sea. Crustaceana 54(1): 33-38 [34]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, coral reef, predator, sand substrate, supratidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Offshore coral cays and sand banks.

History of changes