Species Paradorippe australiensis (Miers, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dorippe australiensis 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. [258 pl. 26 figs D].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 81.31 ♀, Port Denison, QLD; BMNH 52.71 ♂, Moreton Bay, QLD; BMNH 66.75 2♂ 2♀, 'the Australian coast'.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Irian Jaya.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, reef flat, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones, on mud, amongst sponge and coral, to 22 m depth.

 

General References

Holthuis, L.B. & Manning, R.B. 1990. Crabs of the Subfamily Dorippinae MacLeay, 1838, from the Indo-West Pacific region (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dorippidae). Researches on Crustacea. Special Number 3. 151 pp. [110]

 

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)