Species Celotheres villosulus (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pinnotheres villosulus Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1832. Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux, avec un text descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traitès de zoologie. 450 plates in 45 livraisons. Crustacea. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 22 48 pp., 36 pls.

  Type data:

   Neotype AM P107832 (16.5m), Roebuck Bay, Broome [18°06ʹS, 122°20ʹE].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ahyong, S.T. & Ng, P.K.L. 2024. The identities of Pinnotheres villosulus Guérin-Méneville, 1832, P. edwardsi De Man, 1887, and P. trichopus Tesch, 1918, with description of a new Indo-West Pacific genus of pinnotherid crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 44(3): ruae047 [4].
• Pinnotheres edwardsi de Man, J.G. 1888. Report on the Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. Parts I–V. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 22(136–140): 1-312 pls 1-19 [5, 103 pl. 6 figs 6-9].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM 8237/6 ♀, King Island Bay, Mergui Archipelago.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ahyong, S.T. & Ng, P.K.L. 2024. The identities of Pinnotheres villosulus Guérin-Méneville, 1832, P. edwardsi De Man, 1887, and P. trichopus Tesch, 1918, with description of a new Indo-West Pacific genus of pinnotherid crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 44(3): ruae047 [3]

 

Generic Combinations

• Celotheres villosulus (Guérin-Méneville, 1832). —
  Ahyong, S.T. & Ng, P.K.L. 2024. The identities of Pinnotheres villosulus Guérin-Méneville, 1832, P. edwardsi De Man, 1887, and P. trichopus Tesch, 1918, with description of a new Indo-West Pacific genus of pinnotherid crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 44(3): ruae047 [2]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Mergui Archipelago, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Commensal.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in bivalves (Ostrea, Pinna, Atrina spp.) to 27 m depth.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	EUBRACHYURA Saint Laurent, 1980	20-May-2025	ADDED