Species Pilumnopeus serratifrons (Kinahan, 1856)

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• Ozius (?) serratifrons Kinahan, J.R. 1856. Remarks on the habits and distribution of marine Crustacea on the eastern shores of Port Philip, Victoria, Australia, with descriptions of undescribed species and genera. Journal of the Royal Dublin Society 1(3): 111-134 [118 pl. 4 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMINH 2008.115.60 1 ♂ (while in the publication the author cites as type locality "Williamstown or Sandridge, Port Philip, Victoria", the specimens are labelled only "Port Philip" so the exact locality cannot be determined with accuracy), Port Philip, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) NMINH 2008.115.262 1 ♂, same as Lectotype;
  Syntype(s) NMINH 2008.115.60, 2008.115.262 2 ♂♂, Port Phillip, VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Low, M.E.Y., Monaghan, N.T. & Holmes, J.M.C. 2012. The Brachyura described by John Robert Kinahan, and a discussion on Kinahan’s overlooked authorship of the family-group name Litocheiridae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zootaxa 44–52 [48].
• Pilumnopeus crassimanus Milne Edwards, A. 1867. Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles de Crustacés Brachyures. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 7: 263-288 [278].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, 'Port Western (Nouvelle Hollande)' [Westernport, VIC].
• Heteropanope australiensis Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Cancroidea et Coryoidea: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars IV. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 31-40 [35].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Port Jackson, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Balss, H. 1933. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gattung Pilumnus (Crustacea Dekapoda) und verwandter Gattungen. Capita Zoologica 4(3): 1-47, text-figs 1-5 pls 1-7 [34]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under oyster-rocks, stones, and in fouling, on sand to muddy sand.

 

General References

Davie, P.J.F. 1989. A re-appraisal of Heteropanope Stimpson, and Pilumnopeus A. Milne Edwards (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pilumnidae) with descriptions of new species and new genera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27(2): 129-156 [138] (redescription and figures)

 

History of changes

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