Species Trapezia bidentata (Forsskål, 1775)

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Regional Maps

• Grapsillus subinteger 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 C2925 ♂, 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 [94].
• Trapezia ferruginea Latreille, P.A. 1828. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Serville et Guérin : Le Peletier de St-Fargeau Vol. 10(2) 345-852 pp. [695].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀ (no longer extant, see Rathbun, M.J. 1930. The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 152: i–xvi 1–609, text-figs 1–85 pls 1–230 [557]), Red Sea.
• Trapezia miniata Jacquinot, H. in Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, H. 1846. Atlas d'Histoire Naturelle Zoologie par MM. Hombron et Jacquinot, chirurgiens de l'expédition. In, Voyage au pôle sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée; exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840 sous les commandement de M. Dumont d'Urville capitaine de vaisseau publié sous les auspices du département de la marine et sous la direction superieure de M. Jacquinot, capitaine de Vaisseau, commandant de La Zelee. Livraison 18. Oiseaux pl. 21; Crustacés pls 3, 4; Insectes coléoptères pls 16, 17. Paris : Gide et Cie. [pl. 4 fig. 10].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP B2956 ♂ ♀, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia; MNHP B2959 2♂, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.
• Trapezia subdentata Gerstaecker, A. 1857. Carcinologische Beiträge. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 22(1): 101-162 pls 4-6 [for the year 1856] [127].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 195 2 specimans (lost), Red Sea.
• Trapezia cymodoce edentula Laurie, R.D. 1906. Report on the Brachyura collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Part V. Supplementary Report. 349-432 figs 1-2 pls 1, 2 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society.

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Ceylon [Sri Lanka].
• Cancer bidentatus Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), Suez, Red Sea.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Klunzinger, C.B. 1913. Die Rundkrabben (Cyclometopa) des Roten Meeres. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 99(2): 103-402 figs 1-14 pls 5-11 [307] (first recognised T. bidentata (Forskål, 1775) as a senior synonym of T. ferruginea Latreille, 1828; unfortunately the name T. bidentata was subsequently attributed to Klunzinger (1913) instead of Forskål, and thus wrongly treated as a junior name)
• 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 [273]
• Castro, P. 1999. Trapeziid crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura, Xanthoidea, Trapeziidae) of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Zoosystematica Rossica 21(1): 93-120 [108]
• 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. [498] (the nomenclatural treatment used here follows that of an unpublished manuscript ('A synopsis of the family Trapeziidae Miers, 1886') generously made available for my use by the authors, Peter Castro and Peter Ng)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Throughout Indo-west Pacific and east Pacific except the Persian Gulf.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Symbiotic in branching coral (particularly Pocilloporidae).

 

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)