Species Pycnoplax meridionalis (Rathbun, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Carcinoplax meridionalis Rathbun, M.J. 1923. Report on the Crabs obtained by the F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the Coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Report on the Brachyrhyncha, Oxystomata and Dromiacea. pp. 95–156 figs 1–3, pls 16–42 in, Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. "Endeavour", 1909–14. Sydney : Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Trade and Customs. Vol. 5 398 pp. [99 pl. 18].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E2233 ♂, 28 km SE of Rame Head, VIC.
  Paratype(s) AM E5159 juvenile; AM E6487 2 specimens.

  Secondary source:

   Castro, P. 2007. A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species. Zoosystema 29(4): 609-774 [669-671].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from Australia (WA to NSW, and Tasmania and Tasmanian seamounts), and New Zealand, including Chatham Island. At depth of between 46-1054 m.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 126–540 m.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
18-Jan-2011		18-Jan-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)