Species Scylla serrata (Forsskål, 1755)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer serratus Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [90].

  Type data:

   Neotype QM W20917 ♂, central coast of Yemen, Red Sea.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Keenan, C.P., Davie, P.J.F. & Mann, D.L. 1998. A revision of the genus Scylla de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 46(1): 217-245 [228].
• Achelous crassimanus MacLeay, W.S. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. pp. 53–71 pl. 3 in, Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". London. 75 pp. 4 pls [61].

  Type data:

   Neotype QM W21553 ♂, Richard's Bay, South Africa.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Keenan, C.P., Davie, P.J.F. & Mann, D.L. 1998. A revision of the genus Scylla de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 46(1): 217-245 [228].
• Scylla tranquebarica oceanica Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea. U. S. Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia : C. Sherman Vol. 13 1618 pp. [Pt 1: 1–685; Pt 2: 686–1618] [270].

  Type data:

   Neotype QM W21555 ♀, Western Samoa.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Keenan, C.P., Davie, P.J.F. & Mann, D.L. 1998. A revision of the genus Scylla de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 46(1): 217-245 [228].
• Lupa lobifrons Milne Edwards, H. 1834. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces Animaux. Paris : Librairie encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 1 xxxv 468 pp. [453].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Keenan, C.P., Davie, P.J.F. & Mann, D.L. 1998. A revision of the genus Scylla de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 46(1): 217-245 [228]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Tahiti, north to Okinawa, south to Port Hacking, NSW, and Bay of Islands, New Zealand), isolated record from South Atlantic off Brazil, but no evidence of viable populations there.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, estuary, littoral, mangrove, sublittoral.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)