Species Planes major (MacLeay, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nautilograpsus major MacLeay, W.S. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. pp. 53–71 pl. 3 in, Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". London. 75 pp. 4 pls [66].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM(MMUS) C2921 ♂, Cape of Good Hope.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ng, P.K.L. & Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the Macleay Collection, University of Sydney, Australia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49(1): 83-100 [96].
• Planes cyaneus Dana, J.D. 1851. Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Cyclometopa, Edwardsii): Conspectus Crustacearum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descriptsit J.D. Dana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 5: 247-254 [250].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Pacific Ocean [28°N 174°E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ng, P.K.L. & Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the Macleay Collection, University of Sydney, Australia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49(1): 83-100 [96]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Presumably can be washed up onto all Ausralian coasts, Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Pelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually found clinging to floating timbers, masses of seaweed, large jelly fish or pumice stones.

 

General References

Chace, F.A., Jr 1951. The Oceanic crabs of the genera Planes and Pachygrapsus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 101(3272): 65-103 8 figs (Australian records of Planes minutus Linnaeus, 1758, probably belong to this species)

 

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)