Grapsus varius Latreille, 1803

Ng, Ngan Kee, Rodríguez Moreno, Paula A., Naruse, Tohru, Guinot, Danièle & Mollaret, Noémy, 2019, Annotated type-catalogue of Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda) of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Part II. Gecarcinidae and Grapsidae (Thoracotremata, Grapsoidea), with an Appendix of pre- 1900 collectors, Zoosystema 41 (7), pp. 91-130 : 111

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Grapsus varius Latreille, 1803: 67 .

Grapsus Varius – Risso 1816: 21.

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Junior subjective synonym of Pachygrapsus marmoratus ( Fabricius, 1787) (see Latreille 1829: 52; A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier 1900: 109).

NEOTYPE (by present designation). — MNHN-IU-2000-3526 (= MNHN-B3526 ), ♂ 24.0 × 27.1 mm, Mediterranean Sea. — Original label: “ Leptograpsus marmoratus Fabr., Méditerranée ”.

PRESERVATION. — Dry. RP5 missing.

REMARKS

Latreille (1803: 67, 68, and footnote) stated the material was given to him by a young naturalist, Marcel Serres, who had collected it near Montpellier, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea; and the species closely resembled Cancer marmoratus ( Fabricius, 1787) . Henri Milne Edwards (1837: 88) examined the material deposited in the MNHN collection, noting this species was very common along the rocky areas of Bretagne (Brittany), France, Italy, etc. Alphonse Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (1900: 109) synonymised Grapsus varius with Pachygrapsus marmoratus Fabricius, 1787 , the type locality of which is unknown ( Fabricius 1787: 319). From the original sample MNHN-B3526, with one male and one female, from the Mediterranean Sea, the male is hereby selected as the neotype of Grapsus varius Latreille, 1803 , MNHN-IU-2000-3526 (= MNHN-B3526). The female is registered as MNHN- IU-2000-1108 (= MNHN-B3526).

References

FABRICIUS J. C. 1787. - Mantissa Insectorum, sistens eorum species nuper detectas adjectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Vol. 1. C. G. Proft, Hafniae, xx + 348 p. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 36471

LATREILLE P. A. 1803. - Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, des Crustaces et des Insectes. Volume 6. F. Dufart, Paris, 391 p., 44 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 15764

LATREILLE P. A. 1829. - Crustaces, Arachnides et partie des Insectes, in CUVIER G. (ed.), Le regne animal distribue d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparee. Nouvelle edition, revue et augmentee. Volume. 4. Deterville et Crochard, Paris, 584 p. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 49223

RISSO A. 1816. - Histoire naturelle des Crustaces des environs de Nice. Librairie Grecque Latine Allemande, Paris, 175 p., pls 1 - 3. https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9490254