Species Trapezia plana Ward, 1941

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trapezia plana Ward, M. 1941. New Brachyura from the Gulf of Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. American Museum Novitates 1104: 1-15 figs 1-30 [14].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 8311 ♂, western coast of the Gulf of Davao.

  Secondary source:

   Castro, P. 2002. New records of trapeziid crabs (Xanthoidea, Trapeziidae) from the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand, with notes on the taxonomic status of Trapezia plana Ward, 1941. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 23(2): 361-367 [364].
• Trapezia punctipes 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. [87 figs 4A-C, pl. 2D].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P45341 ♂, Lizard Island, NE QLD.
  Paratype(s) MNHP B25283 ♂, Lizard Island, NE QLD; AM P44627 ♀, Lizard Island, NE QLD; AM P44629 ♀, Lizard Island, NE QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-west Pacific (western Thailand, Indonesia, Saipan, Belau, New Caledonia, Fiji).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Symbiotic with branching coral (Pocillopora species).

 

General References

Castro, P. 1999. Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990), Part 7. The Trapeziidae (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) of Indonesia. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 73(3): 27-61 [53]

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. [501] (Peter Castro, pers comm., now believes that T. plana Ward, 1941, is a senior synonym of T. punctipes Castro, 1997, and his paper validating this decision is currently in press)

 

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)