Species Eumedonus niger H. Milne Edwards, 1834

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eumedonus niger Milne Edwards, H. 1834. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces Animaux. Paris : Librairie encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 1 xxxv 468 pp. [350].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP B646S ♂, 'China coast'.
• Gonatonotus crassimanus Haswell, W.A. 1880. On the Australian Brachyura Oxyrhyncha. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 431-458 pls 25-27 [455 pl. 26 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM G5172 (invalid assumption of holotype status by Griffin, D.J.G. 1972. Brachyura collected by Danish Expedition in south-eastern Australia (Crustacea, Decapoda). Steenstrupia 2(5): 49–90 figs 1–3 [74]), Port Jackson, NSW.
• Eumedonus villosus Rathbun, M.J. 1918. Report on the spider crabs obtained by the F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. pp. 1–29 figs 1–3 pls 1–15 in, Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried out by the F.I.S. "Endeavour", 1909–14. Sydney : Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Trade and Customs. Vol. 5 398 pp. [27 pl. 13 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM E4445 ♂, 40 km SE of Double Island Point, QLD; USNM 53433 ♂.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chia, D.G.B. & Ng, P.K.L. 2000. A revision of Eumedonus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 and Gonatonotus White, 1847 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Eumedonidae), two genera of crabs symbiotic with sea urchins. Journal of Natural History 34: 15-56 [18] (also redescribed and figured)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

China and Japan.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, reef, subtidal, symbiotic.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with echinoids.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)