Species Pycnoplax victoriensis (Rathbun, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Carcinoplax victoriensis 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. [101 pl. 19].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E4395 ♂, S of Gabo Island, VIC.
  Paratype(s) AM E5196.

  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 [671-672].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Australia and New Zealand.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 125–765 m. In the study by Ahyong (2008) it is recorded for the first time from a chemosynthetic habitat.

 

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)