Species Pachycheles johnsoni Haig, 1965

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pachycheles johnsoni Haig, J. 1965. The Porcellanidae (Crustacea, Anomura) of Western Australia, with descriptions of four new Australian species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 48(4): 97-118 [102-104 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 197-60 ♂, Point Gregory, NW side of Peron Peninsula, Shark Bay, WA.
  Paratype(s) AM P14760 1♂ 1♀; AM P14761 1♂; AM P14084 1♀; AM P14086 2♀; AM P14090 1♀; AM P14075 1♀; ZMH 11707 1♀ (Hamburg SW Aust. Exped.); WAM 227/8-30 1♂ 1♀; WAM 324-62 1♀; WAM 197-60 1♀; WAM 33-62 1♂.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Central Pacific (Caroline and Marshall Islands).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones, on limestone reef flat, in coral heads, depth to 29 m.

 

General References

Haig, J. 1966. A review of the Indo-west Pacific species of genus Pachycheles (Porcellanidae, Anomura). Symp. Ser. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India. No. 2. Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea Part 1. 285-294 pp. [287]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
24-Apr-2012		24-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)