Dorippe rissoana Desmarest, 1817

Guinot, Danièle, 2023, A new subfamily classification of the highly diversified Dorippidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Dorippoidea), using morphological, molecular and palaeotonlogical data, with special emphasis on its unique female reproductive system, Zoosystema 45 (9), pp. 225-372 : 359

Dorippe rissoana Desmarest, 1817

Dorippe Rissoana A.-G. Desmarest, 1817: 509; 1822: 119, pl. 10, figs 1-3. — H. Milne Edwards 1837: 158.

Dorippe quadridens – Holthuis & Manning 1990: 18, 34-35. — Schweitzer et al. 2021: 1.

REMARKS

A.-G. Desmarest (1817; 1822) introduced and depicted a new fossil species of unknown origin as Dorippe rissoana . Defrance (1819) provided a slightly modified version of the Desmarest’s original (1817) description. According to Desmarest himself (1822: 121), it was a dubious fossil since, although brown and shiny like most East Indian fossil crabs, it was much lighter in colour, more friable and less strongly embedded in clay than the true fossils. Desmarest pointed out that this species was similar to the Dorippe nodosa A.-G. Desmarest (nomen nudum) collected by Péron (= D. quadridens ) and could not be distinguished from it. Glaessner (1929: 137), who considered Desmarest’s specimen a subfossil, treated D. rissoana as a synonym of D. quadridens (Fabricius, 1793) ( Fig. 10A, B ), an action followed by Holthuis & Manning (1990: 18, 34-35). This species belongs to the Dorippinae n. stat..

Figures

FIG. 10. — Dorippinae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 n. stat.: habitus: A, B, Dorippe quadridens (Fabricius,1793):A, ♂ 36.3 × 38.1 mm, China Sea near Singapore, Hee Huat, ZRC 1984. 6308; B, ♀ 29.5 × 30 mm, NW Madagascar, Ambaro Bay, MNHN-IU-2018-5193 (= MNHN-B18279). C, D, Dorippe sinica Chen, 1980, China, Guangdong, Nanao Island, ZRC 1999.0470: C, ♂ 36.2 × 39.5 mm; D, ♀ 34.8 × 38.9 mm, specimen brushed.