Genus Stereomastis Spence Bate, 1888

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• Stereomastis Spence Bate, C. 1888. Report on the Crustacea Macrura 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 24: 1-942, i-xc figs 1-76 pls 1-150 [154] [validated under the plenary powers; gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Pentacheles suhmi Spence Bate, 1878 by subsequent designation, see Holthuis, L.B. 1962. Stereomastis Bate, 1888 (Crustacea, Decapoda), proposed validation under the plenary powers. Z.N.(S.) 1491. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 19: 182–183.

Introduction

Removed from synonymy with Polycheles Heller, 1862 by Ahyong (2009).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northwest Transition (3), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

General References

Ahyong, S.T. 2009. The polychelidan lobsters: Phylogeny and systematics (Polychelida: Polychelidae). In: Martin, J. W., Crandall, K. A. & Felder, D. L. (Eds).Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. pp. 369–396

History of changes