Species Zalasius horii Miyake, 1940
- Zalasius horii Miyake, S. 1940. Crustacea Decapoda from Micronesica. II. A revision of the Micronesian Brachyura collected by the late Mr. Eikiti Horii. Kagaku-Nanyo 2(2): 24-29 pl. 1 [27 pl. 1 fig. 1].
Type data:
Holotype ♂, Palau Island.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Japan, Palau, south to Solomon Islands and Indonesia).
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27)
Ecological Descriptors
Low intertidal, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Under rocks on shelly sand substrates, depth 15 to 35 m.
General References
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. [560] (the specific name was incorrectly emended from horii to horiii by Guinot (1976: 119, op. cit.), and this was followed by subsequent authors. The species was named in honour of E. Horii, and Guinot clearly felt that an extra `i' was necessary to latinise his name correctly. Under Recommendation 31A (I.C.Z.N., 2000) a personal species name preferably should be formed in the genitive case, and not as a noun in apposition, in order to avoid possible confusion concerning authorship; however, it is not incorrect to use it as a noun in apposition, as Miyake has apparently done with Zalasius horii. Further, under Article 32.2, `the original spelling of a name is the 'correct original spelling', unless it is demonstrably incorrect as provided in Article 32.5'. Article 32.5 requires clear evidence of an inadvertent error, and states that `incorrect transliteration or latinization … are not to be considered inadvertent errors'. Therefore Z. horii is here returned to its original spelling)
Guinot, D. 1976. Constitution de quelques groupes naturels chez les Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures. I. La super-famille des Bellioidea et trois sous-familles de Xanthoidae (Polydectinae Dana, Trichiinae de Haan, Actaeinae Alcock). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 97: 1-308 figs 1-47 pls 1-19 [119] (redescription and figures)
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 [50] (as Trichia horiii)
Ng, P.K.L. & Chia, D.G.B. 1995. First record of the rare trichiine crab, Trichia horiii (Miyake, 1940) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae) from the Sunda Shelf, with notes on its biology. Crustaceana 68(4): 438-444 [440] (redescription and discussion of relationships; as Trichia horiii)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |