Species Thalamita pelsarti Montgomery, 1931
- Thalamita prymna pelsarti Montgomery, S.K. 1931. Report on the Crustacea Brachyura of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Abrolhos Islands under the leadership of Professor W.J. Dakin, in 1913; along with other crabs from Western Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 37: 405-465 1 text-fig. pls 24-30 [427 pl. 24 fig. 2, pl. 28 figs 3, 3a].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂, Pelsart and Long Island, Abrolhos Islands, WA.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific (China and Japan south to northern Australia).
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)
Ecological Descriptors
Low intertidal, shallow subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Muddy to rocky shores and on reef flats.
General References
Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda—Anomura, Brachyura. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiv 641 pp. [480] (previously confused with T. prymna and thus Australian records of that species need to be checked to clarify the Australian distribution)
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 [87] (resurrected from synonymy with T. prymna)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |