Species Trapezia rufopunctata (Herbst, 1799)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer rufopunctatus Herbst, J.F.W. 1799. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Berlin and Stralsund : Gottlieb August Lange Vol. 3 Pt 1 pp. 1–66 pls 47–50. [54 pl. 47 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB Herbst 2260 ♂, locality unknown.
• Grapsillus maculatus MacLeay, W.S. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. pp. 53–71 pl. 3 in, Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". London. 75 pp. 4 pls [67].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MMUS C2924 ♂, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ng, P.K.L. & Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the Macleay Collection, University of Sydney, Australia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49(1): 83-100 [92].
• Quadrella rufopunctata Chen, P.S. 1933. Zur morphologie und Histologie der Respirations-organe von Grapsus grapsus L., nebst einer Liste Krabben der Sammlung Plate von Ceylon und Südindien. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft 68: 31-116 [111] [junior homonym of Cancer rufopunctatus Herbst, 1799].

  Secondary source:

   Castro, P., Ng, P.K.L. & Ahyong, S.T. 2004. Phylogeny and systematics of the Trapeziidae Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Brachyura), with the description of a new family. Zootaxa 643: 1-70 [52-53].
• Trapezia acutifrons Milne Edwards, A. 1867. Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles de Crustacés Brachyures. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 7: 263-288 [281].

  Secondary source:

   Castro, P., Ng, P.K.L. & Ahyong, S.T. 2004. Phylogeny and systematics of the Trapeziidae Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Brachyura), with the description of a new family. Zootaxa 643: 1-70 [52-53].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Castro, P. 1999. Trapeziid crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura, Xanthoidea, Trapeziidae) of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Zoosystematica Rossica 21(1): 93-120 [113]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans except Red Sea and Persian Gulf.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Symbiotic in branching corals (particularly Pocilloporidae).

 

General References

Serène, R. 1984. Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures de l'Océan Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Avec un addendum par Crosnier, A.: Carpilliidae et Menippidae. Faune Tropicale 24: 1-400 figs A-C, 1-243 pls 1-48 [276]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		23-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)