Species Thalamita gatavakensis Nobili, 1906

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• Thalamita pilumnoides gatavakensis Nobili, G. 1906. Diagnoses préliminaires de Crustacés Décapodes et Isopodes nouveaux recueillis par M. le Dr. G. Seurat aux îles Touamotou. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 12(5): 256-270 [262].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂, Gatavak, Tuamotu Archipelago.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP ♂ 2♀, Gatavak, Tuamotu Archipelago.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Forest, J. & Guinot, D. 1961. Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures de Tahiti et des Tuamotu. Expedition française sur les recifs coralliens de la Nouvelle–Calédonie. Volume préliminaire. Paris. pp. ix-xi, 1-195 178, text-figs 18 pls [34].

  Secondary source:

   Wee, D.P.C. & Ng P.K.L. 1995. Swimming crabs of the Genera Charybdis de Haan, 1833, and Thalamita Latreille, 1829 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 1: 1-128 [82].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Madagascar to Philippines and Tuamotu).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with coral, 10 to 20 m depth.

 

General References

Stephenson, W. 1972. An annotated check list and key to the Indo-west Pacific swimming crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae). Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 10: 1-64 [47]

 

History of changes

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