Species Samadinia mosaica (Whitelegge, 1900)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pugettia mosaica Whitelegge, T. 1900. Crustacea, Part 1. In Scientific results of the trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4, 1(2): 135-199 figs 11-14 pls 32-35 [141 pl. 35 figs 5, 6,].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM P15175 ♂, from Cape Three Points to Wata Mooli, NSW (Thetis Exp. Stn 42).
  Paralectotype(s) AM G2331–6; AM G2342; AM P1400 14♂ 28♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49-90 figs 1-3 [70].
• Doclea profunda Rathbun, M.J. 1918. Report on the spider crabs obtained by the F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. pp. 1–29 figs 1–3 pls 1–15 in, Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried out by the F.I.S. "Endeavour", 1909–14. Sydney : Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Trade and Customs. Vol. 5 398 pp. [16 pl. 7 figs 1, 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E6279 ♀, Great Australian Bight, S of Eucla, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [185]

 

Generic Combinations

• Samadinia mosaica (Whitelegge, 1900). —
  Bee Yan, L., Richer De Forges, B., & Ng, P. 2021. The generic affinities of the Indo-West Pacific species assigned to Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Epialtidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69: 19-44 [42] (transferred from former position in Rochinia)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathyal, continental shelf, continental slope, oceanic province, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 20 to 820 m, but typically less than 200 m depth.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	EPIALTIDAE Macleay, 1838	23-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
15-Feb-2012		15-Feb-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		18-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)