Species Upogebia darwinii (Miers, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gebiopsis darwinii 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. [281 pl. 32 fig. A].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 82.7 ♂, Port Darwin, NT.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Sakai, K. 1982. Revision of Upogebiidae (Decapoda, Thalassinidea) in the Indo-west Pacific Region. Researches on Crustacea. Special Number 1. Tokyo : The Carcinological Society of Japan 106 pp. 7 pls 20 figs. [20].
• Gebia (Gebiopsis) hexaceras Ortmann, A.E. 1894. Crustaceen. In, Semon, R. Zoologische Forshungreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 8(1): 1-80 pls 1-3 [23 pl. 3 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Thursday Island, Torres Strait.
• Upogebia (Gebiopsis) octoceras Nobili, G. 1904. Diagnoses préliminaires de vingt-huit espèces nouvelles de Stomatopodes et Décapodes Macroures de la Mer Rouge. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 10: 228-238 [236].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP MPTh24 ♂, Aden, Obock and Perim [Gulf of Aden].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Sakai, K. 1982. Revision of Upogebiidae (Decapoda, Thalassinidea) in the Indo-west Pacific Region. Researches on Crustacea. Special Number 1. Tokyo : The Carcinological Society of Japan 106 pp. 7 pls 20 figs. [20].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sakai, K. 1993. On a collection of Upogebiidae (Crustacea, Thalassinidea) from the Northern Territory Museum, Australia, with the description of two new species. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 10(1): 87-114 [88]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, littoral, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with sponges.

 

General References

Ngoc-Ho, N. 1977. The larval development of Upogebia darwinii (Crustacea, Thalassinidae) reared in the laboratory, with a redescription of the adult. Journal of Zoology, London 181: 439-464

 

History of changes

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