Metopograpsus maculatus 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 : 115-116

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scientific name	Metopograpsus maculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1853
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Metopograpsus maculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1853 View in CoL

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Metopograpsus maculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1853: 131 View in CoL [165].

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Junior subjective synonym of Metopograpsus latifrons (White, 1847) View in CoL ( Tesch 1918: 80; Tweedie 1949: 468; Banerjee 1960: 177; Davie 2002: 217; Ng et al. 2008: 217).

LECTOTYPE (by present designation). — MNHN-IU-2000-3554 (= MNHN-B3554 ), ♂ 31.2 × 35.3 mm, Batavia [Jakarta], coll. M. Meder. — Original label: “ Metopograpsus maculatus Edw. , Type , Batavia, M. Meder ”.

PRESERVATION OF THE LECTOTYPE. — Dry. Right region of pleonal somite 6 and telson missing.

PARALECTOTYPES. — MNHN-IU-2000-3553 (= MNHN-B3553), 1♂ 24.8 × 27.7 mm, 1 ♀ 27.5 × 30.7 mm, same data as lectotype . — MNHN-IU-2000-1106 (= MNHN-B3554), 2♂ 28.9 × 32.0 mm, 30.3 × 33.2 mm, same data as lectotype .

PRESERVATION OF THE PARALECTOTYPES. — Dry.

REMARKS Meder is a well-known collector in this region (see Appendix).