Species Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trapezia tigrina Eydoux, F. & Souleyet, L.F.A. 1842. Crustacés. pp. 219-272 in Eydoux, F. (ed.). Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette 'la Bonite', commandée par M. Vaillant. Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand Vol. 1(2). [232 pl. 2 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP B2950 ♀, Hawai'ian Islands.
• Trapezia danae Ward, M. 1939. The Brachyura of the Second Templeton Crocker-American Museum Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. American Museum Novitates No. 1049: 1-15 figs 1-17 [13 figs 17, 18].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH, Samoa.
• Trapezia wardi Serène, R. 1971. Observations on species of the group Trapezia rufopunctata-maculata, with a provisional key for all the species of Trapezia. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 11(1, 2): 126-148 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZRC ♂ (Galil & Lewinsohn (1984) list a male from Elath, Gulf of Elath, in the Zoological Museum of Tel Aviv University, as being the 'type', but this material is not listed in Serène's 1971 description and thus has no status, see Galil, B. & Lewinsohn, Ch. 1984. On the taxonomic status of Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 (Decapoda, Brachyura). Crustaceana 46(2): 166–175[167]), Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam.
  Paratype(s) ZRC ♂, Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam.
• Trapezia punctata Coulon, 1864.

  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 [54].

 

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. [130]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific region, except Coral Sea and Hawai'i.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Symbiotic with branching corals (Pocillopora, Acropora species).

 

General References

Galil, B. & Lewinsohn, Ch. 1984. On the taxonomic status of Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 (Decapoda, Brachyura). Crustaceana 46(2): 166-175

 

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)