• Rochinia Milne Edwards, A. 1875. Etudes sur les Xiphosures et les Crustacés podophthalmaires. pp. 1–368, 61 pls In, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale, Recherches Zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune de l'Amérique centrale et du Mexique. Pt. 5. [dates for the various parts covering the Oxyrhyncha are as follows, see L.B. Holthuis: 1873 (pp. 49–56; pls 13–14); 1875 (pp. 57–120; pls 15–20); 1878 (pp. 121–184; pls 21–27, 29, 30); 1879 (pp. 185–203; pls 31–36); 1879 (pls 15A, 28)] [86] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Rochinia gracilipes A. Milne Edwards, 1875 by monotypy.
• Amathia Roux, P. 1828. Crustacés de la Méditerranée et de son littoral. pls 1–45 with accompanying text, unnumbered. Paris & Marseille. [5] [junior homonym of Amathia Lamouroux, 1812; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Amathia rissoana Roux, 1828 by monotypy.
• Scyramathia Milne Edwards, A. 1880. Etudes sur les Xiphosures et les Crustacés podophthalmaires. pp. 265–372 pls xlix–lxi In, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale, Recherches Zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune de l'Amérique centrale et du Mexique. Pt. 5. [356] [unnecessary replacement name for Amathia Roux, 1828; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Scyramathia carpenteri Thompson, 1873 by subsequent designation, see Rathbun, M.J. 1925. The spider crabs of America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 129: i-xx 1-613, text-figs 1-153 pls 1-283.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tavares, M. 1991. Redéfinition des genres Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, Sphenocarcinus A. Milne-Edwards et Oxypleurodon Miers, et établissement du genre Nasutocarcinus gen. nov. (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majidae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 13(1–2): 159-179 [161]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic Ocean, Indo-west Pacific and east Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Province (6), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Anamathia pulchra Miers, E.J. 1886. Report on the Brachyura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 17(49): i-xlix 1-362 pls 1-29 [26, pl. 4, figs 1a-c] [original spelling].

  Secondary source:

   Richer de Forges, B. & Poore, G.C.B. 2008. Deep-sea majoid crabs of the genera Oxypleurodon and Rochinia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Epialtidae) mostly from the continental margin of Western Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65: 63-70 [68, fig. 2b].
• Anamathia livermorei Wood-Mason, 1891 [nomen nudum].
• Anamathia livermorii Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. 1891. Natural History notes from H. M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer `Investigator', Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. No 21. Note on the results of the last season's deep-sea dredging. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 7: 1-19, 186-202, 258-272.

Generic Combinations

• Rochinia pulchra (Miers, 1886).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Range extends from Japan to the Philippines, and north west Australia

IMCRA

Timor Province (2)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope.

History of changes

• Rochinia sibogae Griffin, D.J.G. & Tranter, H.A. 1986. Some majid spider crabs from the deep Indo-West Pacific. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 351-371 [69, fig. 2c].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA ovig. ♀ (924 m depth; sediment - fine grey mud), Ceram Sea, east of Ceram [3°37.7'S, 131°26.4'E].
  Paratype(s) ZMA immature ♀ (damaged) (924 m depth; sediment - fine grey mud), Ceram Sea, east of Ceram [3°37.7'S, 131°26.4'E].

  Secondary source:

   Richer de Forges, B. & Poore, G.C.B. 2008. Deep-sea majoid crabs of the genera Oxypleurodon and Rochinia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Epialtidae) mostly from the continental margin of Western Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65: 63-70 [69, fig. 2c].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Deep sea.

History of changes

• Rochinia strangeri Serène, R. & Lohavanijaya, P. 1973. The Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected by the Naga Expedition, including a review of the Homolidae. In, Scientific Results of Marine Investigations of the south China Sea and the gulf of Thailand 1959–1961. Naga Report. Scientific Results of Marine Investigations of the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand 4(4): 1-186 figs 1-21 [57, figs 123-128, pl. 11B, C].

  Secondary source:

   Richer de Forges, B. & Poore, G.C.B. 2008. Deep-sea majoid crabs of the genera Oxypleurodon and Rochinia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Epialtidae) mostly from the continental margin of Western Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65: 63-70 [69, fig. 2d].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Central Western Province (6)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope.

History of changes