Cancer teatae Curtiss, 1938

Ng, Peter K. L., Eldredge, Lucius G. & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtiss in 1938 and 1944, Zootaxa 3099, pp. 43-56 : 46

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.206896

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4485194

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scientific name

Cancer teatae Curtiss, 1938
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Cancer teatae Curtiss, 1938 [óura pape]

Palaemon lar Fabricius, 1798: 402 View in CoL .

Cancer teatae Curtiss, 1938: 162 .

While several species of Macrobrachium View in CoL are known from French Polynesia ( Marquet 1991; Keith & Vigneux 2002; Poupin & Juncker 2010), the description of the Tahiti river prawn (the size was recorded as “five inches long” ( Curtiss 1938: 161) with the second pereiopods just as long, makes it clear that Cancer teatae is Macrobrachium lar ( Fabricius, 1798) (Palaemonidae) View in CoL . Holthuis (1980: 96) had already listed C. teatae as a junior synonym of M. lar View in CoL . This identification is further substantiated with Curtiss’s Tahitian name, óura pape, being reported in Keith et al. (2002)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Cancridae

Genus

Cancer

Loc

Cancer teatae Curtiss, 1938

Ng, Peter K. L., Eldredge, Lucius G. & Evenhuis, Neal L. 2011
2011
Loc

Palaemon lar

Curtiss 1938: 162
Fabricius 1798: 402
1798
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