Species Rayllianassa amboinensis (De Man, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Callianassa amboinensis de Man, J.G. 1888. Bericht über die von Herrn Dr. J. Brock im indischen Archipel gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 53(1): 215-600 pls 7-22, 22a [for publication date Clark, P.F., Harrison, K. & Goodman, S.L. 1990. Brock's Indian Archipelago Decapoda and Stomatopoda by De Man: 1887 or 1888?. Arch. Nat. Hist. 17(1): 79–80] [480 pl. 20 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF ♀ (originally deposited in the Zoologisches Museum Göttingen, but this collection was transferred to the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt), Amboina [Ambon], Indonesia.
• Callianassa ngochoae Sakai, K. 1999. Synopsis of the family Callianassidae, with keys to subfamilies, genera and species, and the description of new taxa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 326: 1-152 [49] [subjective synonym].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP Th 1071 ♂, Grand Récif, New Caledonia.

  Type locality references:

  Sakai, K. 1999. Synopsis of the family Callianassidae, with keys to subfamilies, genera and species, and the description of new taxa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 326: 1-152 [49].
• Callianassa sahul Poore, G.C.B. 2008. Thalassinidean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from north-western Australia, including five new species. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 73: 161-179 [172] [subjective synonym].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV J53340 ovig. female, cl 4.3 mm, Timor Sea. stn SAHUL 138, Sahul Banks, unnamed shoal W of Mangol Shoal [11°40.26'S, 125°04.84'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Poore, G.C.B. 2023. New records, one new genus and 21 new species of Callianassidae (Crustacea, Axiidea) from the Indo-West Pacific. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 82: 167–255 [223]

 

Generic Combinations

• Notiax amboinensis (De Man, 1888).
• Notiax ngochoae (Sakai, 1999). —
  Sakai, K. 2011. Axioidea of the world and a reconsideration of the Callianassoidea (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Callianassida). Crustaceana Monographs 13: 1-616 [384]
• Rayllianassa sahul (Poore, 2008).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Indonesia, Elat, Israel, Gulf of Aquaba).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

To 36 m depth.

 

General References

Poore, G.C.B., Dworschak, P.C., Robles, R. Mantelatto, F.L. & Felder, D.L 2019. A new classification of Callianassidae and related families (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) derived from a molecular phylogeny with morphological support. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 78: 73-146 [136]

Sakai, K. 1999. Synopsis of the family Callianassidae, with keys to subfamilies, genera and species, and the description of new taxa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 326: 1-152 [39]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Mar-2025	CRUSTACEA Brünnich, 1772	01-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Gary Poore
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	26-Jul-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
02-Dec-2011		02-Dec-2011	MOVED
02-Dec-2011		02-Dec-2011	MOVED
		03-Jun-2010	MODIFIED