Genus Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

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• Catapagurus Milne Edwards, A. 1880. No. 1. Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877, '78, '79, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake". Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., Commanding. VIII. Etudes préliminaires sur les Crustacés. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 8(1): 1-68 pls 1-2 [46].

  Type species:

   Catapagurus sharrei A. Milne Edwards, 1880 by monotypy.
• Hemipagurus Smith, S.I. 1881. Recent dredging by the United-States Fish Commission off the South Coast of New England, with some notice of the Crustacea obtained. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 7: 143-146 [143] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Hemipagurus gracilis Smith, 1881 by subsequent designation, see Asakura, A. 2001. A revision of the hermit crabs of the genera Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Hemipagurus Smith from the Indo-West Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 823-891 figs 1-51 [826].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Asakura, A. 2001. A revision of the hermit crabs of the genera Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Hemipagurus Smith from the Indo-West Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 823-891 figs 1-51 [830] (reinstated Hemigrapsus)
• McLaughlin, P.A., Komai, T., Lemaitre, R. & Rahayu, D.L. 2010. Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. In, Low, M.E.Y. & Tan, S.H. Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 23: 5–107 [28]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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