Species Pisidia serratifrons (Stimpson, 1858)
- Porcellana serratifrons Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Anomura: 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 VII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 225-252 [229, 242].
Type data:
Status unknown, (presumed lost), Hong Kong. - Porcellana spinulifrons Miers, E.J. 1879. On a collection of Crustacea made by Capt H.C. St. John, R.N., in the Corean and Japanese Seas. Part I. Podophthalmia. With and Appendix by Capt H.C. St. John. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1879: 18-61 pls 1-3 [46].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀, Strait of Tyosen, Japan.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Haig, J. 1981. Porcellanid crabs from the Indo-west Pacific, Part II. Steenstrupia 7(12): 269-291 [277]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Central Indo-west Pacific Ocean (China south to Hong Kong, southern Korea, southern Japan).
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)
Ecological Descriptors
Reef, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Epifaunal in fouling.
General References
Grant, F.E. & McCulloch, A.R. 1906. On a collection of Crustacea from the Port Curtis District, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31(1): 2-53, text-figs 1-3 pls 1-4
Haig, J. 1965. The Porcellanidae (Crustacea, Anomura) of Western Australia, with descriptions of four new Australian species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 48(4): 97-118 [106] (suggested that early records by Henderson (1888) from the Arafura Sea, and by Grant & McCulloch (1906) from Queensland, may prove to be her Pisidia cf. spinulifrons (= P. gordoni), but this has not been substantiated as yet)
Henderson, J.R. 1888. Report on the Anomura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 27: 1-221 21 pls
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |