Species Trapezia guttata Rüppell, 1830

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trapezia guttata Rüppell, E. 1830. Beschreibung und Abbildung von 24 Arten kurzschwänzigen Krabben, als Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte des rothen Meeres. Frankfurt am Main : H.L. Brönner 28 pp. pls 1-6. [27].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH D42320 ♂, Red Sea.
• Trapezia davaoensis Ward, M. 1941. New Brachyura from the Gulf of Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. American Museum Novitates 1104: 1-15 figs 1-30 [14 fig. 27] [subjective synonym; junior subjective synonym of T. guttata].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 8348 ♀, Padada Beach, Gulf of Davao, Mindanao, Philippines.
  Paratype(s) AMNH 7327 1♂; AMNH 7339 3♂ 6♀; AMNH 7341 2♂; AMNH 7342 1♀; AMNH 7343 1♂; AMNH 7352 17♂ 25♀; AMNH 8551 3♂ 2♀; AMNH 8550 2♀; AMNH 7824 1♀; AMNH 7823 1♂; AMNH 7822 1♂ 1♀; AMNH 7363 1♀; MNHP B16783 ♂ ♀, Mindanao, Philippines.

  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 [51-52].
• Trapezia miersi Ward, M. 1941. New Brachyura from the Gulf of Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. American Museum Novitates 1104: 1-15 figs 1-30 [51-52] [subjective synonym; junior subjective synonym of T. guttata].

  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 [51-52].
• Trapezia ferruginea ceylonica 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 [109] [the specimens origoinally examined by Chen(1933) have since been lost].

  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 [51-52].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Castro, P. 1997. Trapeziid crabs (Brachyura: Xanthoidea: Trapeziidae) of French Polynesia. pp. 109-139 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fondes meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie (Sédimentologie, Benthos). Études & Thèses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 3. [125]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Symbiotic in branching corals (particularly Pocilloporidae).

 

General References

Castro, P. 1997. Trapeziid crabs (Brachyura: Xanthoidea: Trapeziidae) of New Caledonia, eastern Australia, and the Coral Sea. pp. 59-107 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fondes meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie (Sédimentologie, Benthos). Études & Thèses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 3. [82]

Morgan, G.J. 1990. A collection of Thalassinidea, Anomura and Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 265: 1-90 [52]

 

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)