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Metadromia wilsoni

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Description

Metadromia wilsoni (Fulton & Grant, 1902)

Cryptodromia wilsoni Fulton & Grant, 1902: 61, pl. 9 [type locality: Victoria (Australia); syntypes: NMV J214]. Hawaiian Is. record:

Dromia wilsoni (Fulton & Grant, 1902) — McLay 2001: 84 [Laysan].

Taxonomy. McLay (1993, as Dromia wilsoni; 2009), Ahyong et al. (2009)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region, southern Australia and New Zealand, South Atlantic Ocean.

Habitat. Carries sponges or colonial ascidians; intertidal, shallow subtidal to bathyal, to 520 m.

Notes

Published as part of Castro, Peter, 2011, Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947, pp. 1-154 in Zootaxa 2947 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5283044

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMV
Family
Dromiidae
Genus
Metadromia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
J214
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fulton & Grant
Species
wilsoni
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Metadromia wilsoni (Fulton, 1902) sec. Castro, 2011

References

  • Fulton, S. W. & Grant, F. E. (1902) Some little known Victorian decapod Crustacea with descriptions of new species, no. 11. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 15 (1), 59 - 68, pls. 8 - 10.
  • McLay, C. L. (2001) The Dromiidae of French Polynesia and a new collection of crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Marquesas Islands. Zoosystema, 23 (1), 77 - 100.
  • McLay, C. L. (1993) Crustacea Decapoda: The sponge crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. In: Crosnier, A. (Ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 10. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), 156, 111 - 251.