Species Trissoplax dentata (Stimpson, 1858)

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• Heteroplax dentata Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Ocypodoidea: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars V. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 93-110 [page numbers 39–56 on separate reprint] [94 (40)].

  Type data:

   Neotype QM W27400 ♂, Tolo Harbour, New Territories, Hong Kong [22°45'N, 114°20'E]
  Comment: Original type material lost.
• Eucrate affinis Haswell, W.A. 1881. On some new Australian Brachyura. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(3): 540-551 [547].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM P40827 ♂, off Holborn Island, near Port Denison, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AM P2972 ♀, off Holborn Island, near Port Denison, QLD.
• Pseudorhombilia sulcatifrons australiensis Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. `Alert' 1881–2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London : British Museum. pp. 178–322, 513–575 pls 18–32, 46–51. [242 pl. 24 fig. C].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1882.93 pre-adult ♀, Port Molle, N QLD, Australia.
• Eucrate haswelli Campbell, B.M. 1969. The genus Eucrate (Crustacea: Goneplacidae) in Eastern Australia and the Indo-west Pacific. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(3): 117-140 figs 1-7 [130 figs 2, 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P6991 ♂, Port Denison, QLD.
• Eucrate costata Yang, S.L. & Sun, X.M. 1979. New species of Eucrate from China (Decapoda:Goneplacidae). Memoirs of Beijing Natural History Museum. Vol. 2. pp. 1-11 [4].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Campbell, B.M. 1969. The genus Eucrate (Crustacea: Goneplacidae) in Eastern Australia and the Indo-west Pacific. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(3): 117-140 figs 1-7 [122]

 

Generic Combinations

• Trissoplax dentata (Stimpson, 1858).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Wide Indo-Pacific region, including South Africa, Gulf of Aden, Persian gulf, Pakistan, India, Thailand, China, Singapore, and Australia (Queensland).

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Mud bottom–marine, soft bottom–marine, subtidal.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
27-Mar-2012		27-Mar-2012	MOVED
27-Mar-2012		27-Mar-2012	MOVED
27-Mar-2012		03-Feb-2011	MOVED
03-Feb-2011		03-Feb-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)