Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

PETER CASTRO, PETER K. L. NG & SHANE T. AHYONG, 2004, Phylogeny and systematics of the Trapeziidae Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Brachyura), with the description of a new family, Zootaxa 643, pp. 1-70 : 54

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scientific name

Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842
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Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 View in CoL

Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842: 232 View in CoL , pl. 2, fig. 4 (colour) (see Plate 3E). Trapezia punctata Coulon, 1864: 569 View in CoL .

Trapezia danae Ward, 1939: 13 View in CoL , figs. 17, 18.

Trapezia wardi Serène, 1971: 140 View in CoL .

Remarks. The identity of T. wardi Serène, 1971 (type locality Vietnam) and T. danae Ward, 1939 (type locality Samoa) with T. tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 , is not in question (see Galil & Lewinsohn 1984: 166; Castro 1997b: 130). T. punctata Coulon, 1864 (type locality Red Sea) is almost certainly identical with T. tigrina , even if Coulon’s description is far too brief. What appears to be Coulon's type, a dried specimen, is in the zoology collections of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It carries the label " Trapezia rufopunctata Herb. " made by Coulon himself. This specimen was very likely used by Coulon in his description of T. punctata , but Coulon apparently realised later that there was an earlier name ( T. rufopunctata ) and his species was only a junior synonym (J.­P. Haenni, pers. comm. through M. Kottelat).

As T. tigrina and T. rufopunctata have very similar colour patterns, and as a result were frequently mistaken for each other, Coulon's eventual identification is not at all surprising. Since T. rufopunctata is not known from the Red Sea, Coulon's T. punctata should be T. tigrina instead. The colour description of T. punctata also fits better that of T. tigrina , orange dots (" points orange ", Coulon 1864: 569) rather than the distinctly larger spots of T. rufopunctata .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Trapeziidae

Genus

Trapezia

Loc

Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

PETER CASTRO, PETER K. L. NG & SHANE T. AHYONG 2004
2004
Loc

Trapezia wardi Serène, 1971 : 140

Serene 1971: 140
1971
Loc

Trapezia danae

Ward 1939: 13
1939
Loc

Trapezia tigrina

Coulon 1864: 569
Eydoux 1842: 232
1842
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