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Tumidodromia dormia
Authors/Creators
- 1. Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz (IEO-CSIC), Puerto Pesquero, Muelle de Levante s / n, 11006 Cádiz, Spain.
- 2. Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos s / n, 29071 Málaga, Spain.
- 3. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
- 4. Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (ICMAN-CSIC), República Saharaui, 2, Puerto Real, 11519 Cádiz, Spain.
Description
Tumidodromia dormia (Linnaeus, 1763)
Fig. 18
Material examined
MAURITIUS • 1 ♀ (135.7×109.9); 1850; dry specimen from the “Sala del Mar” exhibition; MNCN20.04/00032.
Remarks
Tumidodromia dormia is the largest known sponge crab (up to 200 mm cw), and inhabits shallow waters (McLay 2009). Only two ovigerous female specimens of this species have been captured (McLay 2009), and our specimen is a female, but due to its fragility, it is not convenient to manipulate the specimen, therefore it is not known if it is ovigerous or not.
For identification see also Lewinsohn (1984) and McLay (2001, 2009).
Notes
Published as part of Muñoz, Isabel, García-Raso, J. Enrique, Chillón, Begoña Sánchez & Cuesta, Jose A., 2025, Marine crabs from African waters housed in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC): An opportunity for biogeographic and systematic studies. Part I: Heterotremata (Decapoda, Brachyura), pp. 1-94 in European Journal of Taxonomy 996 on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.996.2915, http://zenodo.org/record/15633323
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNCN
- Material sample ID
- MNCN20.04/00032
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Dromiidae
- Genus
- Tumidodromia
- Species
- dormia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tumidodromia dormia (Linnaeus, 1763) sec. Muñoz, García-Raso, Chillón & Cuesta, 2025
References
- McLay C. 2009. New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae). Zootaxa 2111: 1-66. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2111.1.1
- Lewinsohn F. C. 1984. Dromiidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Madagascar and the Seychelles. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 4 e ser. 6 A (1): 89-129. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.285941
- McLay C. 2001. The Dromiidae of French Polynesia and a new collection of crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Marquesas Islands. Zoosystema 23 (1): 77-100.