Grapsus pharaonis H. Milne Edwards, 1853

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 : 109-110

Grapsus pharaonis H. Milne Edwards, 1853

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Grapsus pharaonis H. Milne Edwards, 1853: 134 [168].

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Junior subjective synonym of Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Herbst, 1783) (see Banerjee 1960: 134).

LECTOTYPE (by present designation). — MNHN-IU-2000-3439 (= MNHN-B3439 ), ♂ 55.0 × 57.4 mm, Red Sea, coll. M. Roux. — Original label: “ Grapsus pharaonis Edw. , Mer Rouge, M. Roux ”.

PRESERVATION OF THE LECTOTYPE. — Dry.

PARALECTOTYPES. — MNHN-IU-2000-3438 (= MNHN-B3438), 2♀ 58.3 × 59.5 mm, 60.2 × 60.9 mm, same data as lectotype .

PRESERVATION OF THE PARALECTOTYPES. — Dry.

REMARKS

“M. Roux” on the label is J. L. F. P. Roux who collected material in the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and in the Near East ( Bauchot et al. 1990; Appendix) and published the volume Crustacés de la Méditerranée et de son littoral, décrits et lithographiés ( Roux 1828 -1830). Grapsus pharaonis was synonimised with Grapsus grapsus ( Linnaeus, 1758) by A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (1900: 111) and, subsequently, with Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Herbst, 1783) by Banerjee (1960), see Ng et al. 2008: 217. In the CAA, material collected by Roux in the Red Sea has 1835 as entry date.

Figures

FIG. 5. — A, Grapsus peroni H. Milne Edwards, 1853, MNHN-IU-2000-10934 (= MNHN-B10934), lectotype, ♂; B, Grapsus pharaonis H. Milne Edwards, 1853, MNHN-IU-2000-3439 (= MNHN-B3439),lectotype,♂; C, Grapsus pictus Latreille 1803,MNHN-IU-2000-3409 (= MNHN-B3409),neotype,♀; D, Grapsus plicatus H. Milne Edwards,1837,MNHN-IU-2000-3585 (= MNHN-B3585),lectotype,♀; E, Grapsus rudis H. Milne Edwards, 1837,MNHN-IU-2000-10875 (= MNHN-B10875), holotype, ♂; F, Grapsus webbi H. Milne Edwards, 1853, MNHN-IU-2000-3457 (= MNHN-B3457), lectotype, ♂. Scale bars: A, F, 2 cm; B, E, 5 cm; C, D, 10 mm.