Notopus dorsipes (Fabricius, 1787)

BOYKO, CHRISTOPHER B., 2002, A Worldwide Revision Of The Recent And Fossil Sand Crabs Of The Albuneidae Stimpson And Blepharipodidae, New Family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Hippoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2002 (272), pp. 1-396 : 395

Notopus dorsipes (Fabricius, 1787) Figure 1E

Hippa dorsipes Fabricius, 1787: 329 .

Albunea dorsipes: Weber, 1795: 94 . – Fabricius, 1798: 397–398.

Albunea Dorsipede [sic]: Duméril, 1816: 431.

Notopus dorsipes: T. Sakai, 1965: 1 , pl. 1, fig. 1. not Cancer dorsipes: Herbst, 1791: 5–8 , pl. 2, fig. 2. – Herbst, 1796: 197–198, pl. 45, figs. 1–7 (= Albunea symmysta (Linnaeus, 1758)) .

not Albunea dorsipes: Herbst, 1804: 31 (list) (= Albunea symmysta (Linnaeus, 1758)) .

REMARKS: This species was an original member of the genus Albunea , as defined by Weber (1795).

CORYSTIDAE SAMOUELLE, 1819

Figures

Fig. 1. Convergent crabs: A. Thia scutellata (Fabricius, 1793). B. Corystes cassivelaunus (Pennant, 1777). C. Albunea carabus (Linnaeus, 1758). D. Ranina ranina (Linnaeus, 1758). E. Notopus dorsipes (Fabricius, 1787). A, B, after Hayward et al. (1995), C, after Zariquiey Alvarez (1968), D, after Tinker (1965), E, specimen from Madagascar (MNHN). Figures not given to scale.