Species Thalamita sima H. Milne Edwards, 1834
Four-lobed Swimming Crab
- Thalamita sima 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. [460].
Type data:
Status unknown, MNHP (appears no longer to be extant), Coromandel coast, south-east India. - Portunus (Thalamita) arcuatus De Haan, W. 1833. Crustacea. i-xvii, i-xxxi, ix-xvi, 1-243 pls A-J, in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [10 pl. 2 fig. 2] [junior homonym of Portunus arcuatus Leach, 1814, now in Liocarcinus].
Type data:
Lectotype RMNH D442 ♂, Japan.
Paralectotype(s) RMNH D443 ♂, Japan; RMNH D1739 2♂, Japan; RMNH D42317 2♂ 2♀, Japan; RMNH D42319 mouthparts, Japan.Subsequent designation references:
Yamaguchi, T. & Baba, K. 1993. Crustacean specimens collected in Japan by Ph.F. von Siebold and H. Bürger and held by the National Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden and other museums. pp. 145-563 in Yamaguchi, T. (ed.). Ph.F. von Siebold and Natural History of Japan Crustacea. Japan : Shimoda Printing Inc. [423].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Apel, M. & Spiridonov, V.A. 1998. Taxonomy and zoogeography of the portunid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) of the Arabian Gulf and adjacent waters. Fauna of Arabia 17: 159-331 [273]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific Oceans (South Africa to Japan, Guam and Mariana Islands).
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Ecological Descriptors
Low intertidal, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Under stones, rocks and mussel clumps on mud and sand, tidal flats to 50 m depth.
General References
Balss, H. 1935. Brachyura of the Hamburg Museum Expedition to South-Western Australia, 1905. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 21: 113-151, text-figs 1-3 pl. 13 [131]
Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. (illustration and description)
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) |