• Ryphila Galil, B. S. 2009. An examination of the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Leucosiidae) with descriptions of seven new genera and six new species. Zoosystema 31(2): 279-320 [309].

  Type species:

   Cancer cancellus Herbst, 1783 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

History of changes

• Cancer cancellus Herbst, J.F.W. 1783. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Zurich : Joh. Casper Fuessly Vol. 1 Pts 2–5 pp. 87–182 pls 2–9. [3 volumes and an Atlas published from 1782–1804] [94, pl. 2, fig. 20].

  Secondary source:

   Galil, B. S. 2009. An examination of the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Leucosiidae) with descriptions of seven new genera and six new species. Zoosystema 31(2): 279-320 [32-34].
• Leucosia scabriuscula Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [349].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC, 'India Orientali'.
• Leucosia scabriuscula Weber, 1795 [nomen nudum].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean (East Africa to Indonesia) including East Africa, from Red Sea to Mozambique, Madagascar, Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Mergui Archipelago, Malay Archipelago, Burma, Thailand, Borneo, and Sumatra

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Low intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand substrates.

General References

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [74] (Australian records)

History of changes