Australian Museum Journal Redescriptions of the Australian majid spider crabs Leptomithrax gaimardii (H. Milne Edwards) and Paramithrax barbicornis (Latreille)
- Shortform:
- Griffin, 1963, Rec. Aust. Mus. 26(4): 131–143
- Author(s):
- Griffin, D. J. G.
- Year published:
- 1963
- Title:
- Redescriptions of the Australian majid spider crabs Leptomithrax gaimardii (H. Milne Edwards) and Paramithrax barbicornis (Latreille)
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 4
- Start page:
- 131
- End page:
- 143
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.26.1963.672
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates 6–7
- Date published:
- 01 November 1963
- Cover date:
- 01 November 1963
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- CRUSTACEA
- Digitized:
- 07 April 2009
- Available online:
- 23 July 2009
- Reference number:
- 672
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (110kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (2231kb PDF)
Abstract
Paramithrax gaimardii H. Milne Edwards, 1834, is redescribed and figured from photographs of the holotype. It is regarded as a species of Leptomithrax Miers, 1876, conspecific with L. australiensis Miers, 1876, and L. spinulosus Haswell, 1880. Paramithrax barbicornis (Latreille, 1825) is also redescribed and figured and is considered synonymous with Gonatorhynchus tumidus Haswell, 1880, following Balss (1929). This species was designated as the type of the genus Paramithrax H. Milne Edwards, 1834, by Desmarest (1858) and the genus Gonatorhynchus Haswell, 1880, is consequently reduced to synonymy with Paramithrax.