Genus Parthenope Weber, 1795

Museums

Regional Maps

• Parthenope 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] [Name No. 1581 on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1964. Opinion 696. Parthenope Weber, 1795, and Daldorfia Rathbun, 1904 (Crustacea, Decapoda): placed on the Official List of generic names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 94–96; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Cancer longimanus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Rathbun, M.J. 1904. Some changes in Crustacean Nomenclature. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 17: 169-172 [171].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1964. Opinion 696. Parthenope Weber, 1795, and Daldorfia Rathbun, 1904 (Crustacea, Decapoda): placed on the Official List of generic names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 94-96.
• Lambrus Leach, W.E. 1816. A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animal which Linne arranged under Insecta: with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders &c. and descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11(2): 306-400 & 'Errata' [dated 1815, but published 24 January 1816] [308] [Name No. 1678 on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1964. Opinion 696. Parthenope Weber, 1795, and Daldorfia Rathbun, 1904 (Crustacea, Decapoda): placed on the Official List of generic names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 94–96; junior objective synonym of Parthenope Weber, 1795; gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cancer longimanus Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1964. Opinion 696. Parthenope Weber, 1795, and Daldorfia Rathbun, 1904 (Crustacea, Decapoda): placed on the Official List of generic names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 94-96.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Tokyo : Kodansha 3 vols xxix 773 pp. [English vol.]; 1–16, 251 pls [Plates vol.]; 461 pp. [Japanese vol.]. [266]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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)

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)