Cancer ballantei Curtiss 1938
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Cancer tenuicrustatus Herbst, 1783: 113.
Cancer ballantei Curtiss, 1938: 174, n. syn.
Cancer ballantei was observed to have “short, stiff, black bristles” on the ambulatory legs, the colour of the “body above is reddish, inclined to dull black, with many whitish dots”, and has a relative large size (“an inch and threequarters wide”) (Curtiss 1938: 173, 174). This description and colour pattern agrees very well with the other common cliff-dwelling supralittoral grapsid, Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Herbst, 1783) (see Poupin & Juncker 2010). Another species of Grapsus known from French Polynesia (but not yet from Tahiti) is G. longitarsis Dana, 1851, but it has a very different carapace colouration and is generally smaller (see Banerjee 1960; Poupin 1996; Ng 1998; Poupin & Juncker 2010). Poupin (1996) commented that the poorly known Grapsus depressus Heller, 1862, has never been seen since its description from French Polynesia and its taxonomy is uncertain, but it may be a species of Geograpsus (see Ng et al. 2008).
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- Curtiss
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
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- Decapoda
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- Cancridae
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- Cancer
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- ballantei
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- Cancer ballantei Curtiss, 1938 sec. Ng, Eldredge & Evenhuis, 2011
References
- Curtiss, A. (1938) A short zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. Guide Printing, Brooklyn, New York, pp. i - xvi, 1 - 193.
- Poupin, J. & Juncker, M. (2010) Guide des Crustaces Decapodes du Pacifique Sud (A guide to the decapod crustaceans of the South Pacific). Secretariat of the Pacific Community, CRISP (Coral Reef Initiatives for the Pacific), 317 pp.
- Dana, J. D. (1851) Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Cyclometopa, Edwardsii). Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e Classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit J. D. Dana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5 (10), 247 - 254.
- Banerjee, S. K. (1960) Biological results of the Snellius Expedition. XVIII. The genera Grapsus, Geograpsus and Metopograpsus (Crustacea, Brachyura). Temminckia, 10, 132 - 199.
- Poupin, J. (1996) Crustacea Decapoda of French Polynesia (Astacidea, Palinuridea, Anomura, Brachyura). Atoll Research Bulletin, 442, 1 - 114.
- Ng, P. K. L. (1998) Crabs. In: Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (eds.), FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 2. Cephalopods, crustaceans, holothurians and sharks. FAO, Rome, pp. pp. 1045 - 1155.
- Heller, C. (1862) Neue Crustaceen, gesammelt wahrend der Weltumseglung der k. k. Fregatte Novara. Zweiter vorlaufiger Bericht [= Part II]. Verhandllungen der kaiserlich-kongiglichen zoologish-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 12, 519 - 528.
- Ng, P. K. L., Guinot, D. & Davie, P. J. F. (2008) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17, 1 - 286.