Species Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Palinurus versicolor Latreille, P.A. 1804. Das Langouste du Muséum national d'Historie naturelle. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 3: 388-395 [394].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Mauritius (restricted type locality, see Holthuis (1991: 156)).

  Type locality references:

  Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292.
• Palinurus taeniatus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [211].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 3 specimens (it is possible that the type material of taeniatus and versicolor is the same), Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande) but probably Mauritius or Timor.

  Type locality references:

  Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292.
• Palinurus ornatus decoratus Heller, C. 1865. Crustaceen. In, Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte `Novara' um die Erdre, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zool. Theil. 2(3): 1–280, pls 1–25. [99].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Java, Indonesia.
• Puer spiniger Ortmann, A.E. 1894. Crustaceen. In, Semon, R. Zoologische Forshungreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 8(1): 1-80 pls 1-3 [19 pl. 2 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Amboina [Ambon], Moluccas, Indonesia;
  Status unknown, whereabouts unknown.
• Panulirus demani Borradaile, L.A. 1900. On the Stomatopoda and Macrura brought by Dr Willey from the South Seas. pp. 395-428 in Willey, A. (ed.). Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and Elsewhere, collected during the Years 1895, 1896, and 1897. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [418].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) UMZC 1♂, Blanche Bay, New Britain; ZIJ, Amboina [Ambon], Moluccas, Indonesia, New Guinea, Thursday Island, QLD; ZMLG 2 juveniles, Java Sea.

  Type locality references:

  Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292.
• Senex ornatus laevis Lanchester, W.F. 1901. On the Crustacea collected during the "Skeat" Expedition to the Malay Peninsula, together with a Note on the Genus Actaeopsis. Part I. Brachyura, Stomatopoda and Macrura. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(2): 533-574 pls 33, 34 [557].

  Type data:

   Holotype UMZC ♂, Songkhla, S Thailand (as 'Singora').

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292 [132, 156]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (east Africa to southern Japan and east to French Polynesia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Christmas Island Province (23), 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

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, cryptozoic, littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Often on seaward edges of the reef plateau, in clear water and surf areas, nocturnal, depth to 15 m.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	26-Jul-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
10-May-2012		04-Jul-2014	MODIFIED
		03-Jun-2010	MODIFIED