Species Petalomera pulchra Miers, 1884

Museums

Regional Maps

• Petalomera pulchra 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. [260 pl. 27 fig. A].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1882.7 ♀, Prince of Wales Channel, Torres Strait, N QLD.

  Secondary source:

   McLay, C.L. & Ng, P.K.L 2007. Revision of the Indo-West Pacific sponge crabs of the genus Petalomera Stimpson, 1858 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Dromiidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(1): 107-120.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McLay, C.L. 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. pp. 111-251 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 156: 1-491 [166]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Most specimens are from northern Australia (east and west coast). Also one specimen reported from Aru island, Moluccas, Indonesia by Ihle (1913)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 25 to 86 m.

 

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
		22-Jun-2011	MODIFIED