Species Thalamita danae Stimpson, 1858

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• Thalamita danae Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Cancroidea et Coryoidea: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars IV. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 31-40 [39].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 1986.848a ♂, Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [73].
• Thalamita stimpsoni Milne Edwards, A. 1861. Etudes zoologiques sur les Crustacés récents de la famille des Portuniens. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 10: 309-428 pls 28-38 [362 pl. 35 fig. 34].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♀, 'Mers d'Asie' [Asian Seas].
• Thalamita prymna proxima 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 [429].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, North Island, Abrolhos Archipelago, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [73]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans (Indo-Malaysian region to French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Marshall Islands, Fiji, and Samoa).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), 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

Littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Rocky shores under stones and mussel clumps, on sandy-mud flats and on reefs, to 40 m depth.

 

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)