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Genus Pinnotheres Bosc, 1802

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PINNOTHERIDAE: Pinnotheres pisum (Linnaeus, 1767) — Pregenzer, C. 1979. A redescription of Pinnotheres hickmani (Guiler) and comparison with P. novaezelandiae Filhol and P. pisum (L.) (Decapoda: Brachyura). Crustaceana Suppl. 5: 22-30 [29] (examined a range of Australian material, over a wide geographic area, and from the same hosts from which P. pisum had earlier been recorded for Australia, and concluded that all material was attributable to Pinnotheres hickmani (Guiler, 1949). Pinnotheres pisum is otherwise only known from the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean region)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan, excepting the Arctic and Antarctic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda—Anomura, Brachyura. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiv 641 pp. [432] (the name Pinnotheres orientalis Woodward, 1886, applied to a crustacean commensal in the shell of the Pearl Mussel, Meleagrina margaritifera, from the Northern Territory coast, is a nom. nud.; the identity of this Pinnotheres species needs to be clarified)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
10-May-2022 DECAPODA Latreille, 1802 10-May-2022 MODIFIED
03-Mar-2022 PINNOTHERIDAE De Haan, 1833 04-May-2022 MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021 BRACHYURA Latreille, 1802 10-May-2022 MODIFIED Dr Genefor Walker-Smith (NMV)
05-Aug-2020 DECAPODA Latreille, 1802 10-May-2022 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 DECAPODA Latreille, 1802 10-May-2022 MODIFIED Dr Shane Ahyong
22-Dec-2016 DECAPODA Latreille, 1803 10-May-2022 MODIFIED Dr Shane Ahyong
04-Jun-2012 04-Jun-2012 MOVED
10-May-2012 10-May-2022 MODIFIED
10-May-2022 MODIFIED