Species Ocypode cordimanus Desmarest, 1825
Smooth-handed Ghost Crab
- 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].
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
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |