Species Prismatopus longispinus (De Haan, 1839)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paramithrax coppingeri Haswell, W.A. 1882. Description of some new species of Australian Decapoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(4): 750-763 [750].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM G5112 1 specimen (possible syntype), Port Molle, Whitsunday Passage, QLD.
• Maja (Chlorinus) longispina De Haan, W. 1839. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugundi-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [94 pl. 23 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH D42158 ♂ (mouthparts registered as D43559), Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH D42158 ♂ (mouthparts registered as D43559), Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Yamaguchi, T. & Baba, K. 1993. Crustacean specimens collected in Japan by Ph.F. von Siebold and H. Bürger and held by the National Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden and other museums. pp. 145-563 in Yamaguchi, T. (ed.). Ph.F. von Siebold and Natural History of Japan Crustacea. Japan : Shimoda Printing Inc. [362].
• Paramithrax (Chlorinoides) longispinus bituberculata 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. [522].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Providence Is.
• Paramithrax (Chlorinoides) longispinus bispinosus Laurie, R.D. 1906. Report on the Brachyura collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Part V. Supplementary Report. 349-432 figs 1-2 pls 1, 2 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society. [383].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Sri Lanka.
• Paramithrax (Chlorinoides) longispinus spinossissima Bouvier, E.L. 1906. Observations sur le genre Acanthophrys A. M. Edw. et Catalogue des Acanthophrys du Muséum. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 12: 485-491 [488].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Mozambique.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Tokyo : Kodansha 3 vols xxix 773 pp. [English vol.]; 1–16, 251 pls [Plates vol.]; 461 pp. [Japanese vol.]. [249]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Bottom of muddy sand, stones and shells, depth 10–35 m.

 

General References

Griffin, D.J.G. & Tranter, H. 1986. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. Part VIII. Majidae. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 39(c4): 1-335, 112 text-figs 22 pls [258] (remarks on variation)

 

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
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