Australian Museum Journal Notes on the taxonomy and zoogeography of the Tasmanian grapsid and ocypodid crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura)
- Shortform:
- Griffin, 1969, Rec. Aust. Mus. 27(18): 323–347
- Author(s):
- Griffin, D. J. G.
- Year published:
- 1969
- Title:
- Notes on the taxonomy and zoogeography of the Tasmanian grapsid and ocypodid crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura)
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 18
- Start page:
- 323
- End page:
- 347
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.27.1969.452
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 18 April 1969
- Cover date:
- 18 April 1969
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- CRUSTACEA: BRACHYURA; TAXONOMY
- Digitized:
- 09 December 2008
- Available online:
- 03 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 452
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (102kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (2104kb PDF)
Abstract
Seven of the eleven species of shore crabs of the families Grapsidae and Ocypodidae occurring in Tasmania are considered; synonymies, detailed locality lists and comments on previous work are given; the remaining four species have been recently discussed in detail elsewhere by Campbell and Griffin (1966). The sesarmine Paragrapsus laevis (Dana) is recorded definitely from Tasmania for the first time. The status of this species and of Leptograpsodes octodentatus (H. Milne Edwards) is discussed. The zoogeographical relations of the Tasmanian grapsid and ocypodid fauna are considered.