Species Pseudophilyra tridentata Miers, 1879

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudophilyra tridentata 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 [41 pl. 2 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, 33º4'N 129º18'E [S Japan].

  Secondary source:

   Komatsu, H. & Takeda, M. 2000. Leucosiid Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Osumi Islands, southwest Japan, with description of a new species of Cryptocnemus. Species Diversity 5: 267-283 [278-280].
• Pseudophilyra dinops Takeda, M. 1977. Crabs from shallow waters off Mage-jima Island, southwest Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo A 3: 73-89 [74].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Persian Gulf to Japan).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy substrates, sometimes with shell, rock and weed, depth 10–30 m.

 

General References

Campbell, B.M. & Stephenson, W. 1970. The sublittoral Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(4): 235-302 figs 1-49 pl. 22 1 table [252] (figured)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
30-Mar-2012		03-Aug-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)