Genus Pugettia Dana, 1851

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pugettia Dana, J.D. 1851. Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit. American Journal of Science and Arts 11(32): 268-274 [268] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Pugettia gracilis Dana, 1851 by subsequent designation, see Miers, E.J. 1879. On the classification of the Maioid Crustacea of Oxyrhyncha, with a synopsis of the families, sub-families and genera. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 14: 634-673 pls 12-13.
• Mimulus Stimpson, W. 1860. Notes on North American Crustacea, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. II. (New York). Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History New York 7: 176–246.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wicksten, M.K. & Stachowicz, J.J. 2013. Mimulus Stimpson, 1860, a junior synonym of Pugettia Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea: Epialtidae). Zootaxa 3693(3): 358–364

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

East and west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13)

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 [92] (key to species)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
15-Feb-2012		15-Feb-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)