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Thalamita admete

  • 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

Thalamita admete (Herbst, 1803)

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Material examined

MAURITIUS • 5 ♂ ♂ (32.3× 22.6, 25.6 ×14.9, 23.6 ×14.8, 23.8 × 13.5, 13.1 ×8.8); 1850; Guérin-Méneville leg.; MNCN20.04/03067 • 1 unsexed (dry specimen); appears in the 1910 catalogue, so its collection date is earlier; MNCN20.04/00273.

Remarks

The specimen MNCN20.04/00273 could not be measured or sexed due to its position.

For identification, see also Edmondson (1954), Crosnier (1962), Wee & Ng (1995), Vannini & Innocenti (2000) and Kloch & Bliznáková (2023).

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 59-60, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.996.2915, http://zenodo.org/record/15633323

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNCN
Material sample ID
MNCN20.04/00273 , MNCN20.04/03067
Scientific name authorship
Herbst
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Portunidae
Genus
Thalamita
Species
admete
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Thalamita admete (Herbst, 1803) sec. Muñoz, García-Raso, Chillón & Cuesta, 2025

References

  • Edmondson C. H. 1954. Hawaiian Portunidae. Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Occasional Papers 21 (12): 217-274.
  • Crosnier A. 1962. Faune de Madagascar. XVI Crustaces decapodes: Portunidae. Faune de Madagascar 16: 1-154.
  • Wee D. P. C. & Ng P. K. L. 1995. Swimming crabs of the genera Charybdis De Haan, 1833, and Thalamita Latreille, 1829 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supl. 1: 1-128.
  • Vannini M. & Innocenti G. 2000. Research on the Coast of Somalia. Portunidae (Crustacea Brachyura). Tropical Zoology 13: 251-298. https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.2000.10531136
  • Kloch M. & Bliznakova A. 2023. Portunid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Madagascar. In: Corbari L., Richer de Forges B. & Macpherson E. (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos vol. 33: Deep-Sea Crustaceans from South-West Indian Ocean. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle 2017, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.