Species Paranaxia serpulifera (Guérin-Méneville, 1829)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pisa serpulifera Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1829. Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux, avec un text descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traitès de zoologie. Paris : J.B. Baillière 450 plates in 45 livraisons. Crustacea: 36 pls, 48 pp. [pl. 8 fig. 2-2d].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP IU-2000-4479 ♀, “Nouvelle Hollande”.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hosie & Hara 2016. Description of a new species of brooding spider crab in the genus Paranaxia Rathbun, 1924 (Brachyura: Majoidea), from northern Australia and Indonesia. Zootaxa 4127(1): 121–134 [Date published 22 June 2016] [122].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, rock reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 7–24 m.

 

General References

Griffin, D.J.G. & Tranter, H. 1986. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. Part VIII. Majidae. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 39(c4): 1-335, 112 text-figs 22 pls [280] (distribution and figures of male first gonopod)

Morgan, G.J. 1987. Brooding of juveniles and observations on dispersal of young in the spider crab Paranaxia serpulifera (Guerin) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 13(3): 337-343 (dispersal of young and brooding of juveniles)

Rahayu, D.L. & Ng, P.K.L. 2000. Some new and interesting records of spider crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majidae) from Indonesia. Crustaceana 73(7): 887-890

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	21-Apr-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)