Genus Eiconaxius Bate, 1888

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eiconaxius Spence Bate, C. 1888. Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 24: 1-942, i-xc figs 1-76 pls 1-150 [40].

  Type species:

   Eiconaxius acutifrons Bate, 1888 by subsequent designation, see Borradaile, L.A. 1903. On the classification of the Thalassinidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12(7): 534-551, 638 [537].
• Iconaxiopsis Alcock, A. 1901. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Indian Deep-sea Crustacea Decapoda Macrura and Anomura in the Indian Museum. Being a revised account of the deep-sea species collected by the Royal Indian marine survey ship "Investigator". Calcutta : Indian Museum Vol. 4 286 pp. 3 pls. [193].

  Type species:

   Iconaxiopsis laccadivensis Alcock, 1901 by subsequent designation, see Borradaile, L.A. 1903. On the classification of the Thalassinidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12(7): 534-551, 638 [537].
• Eiconaxiopsis Sakai, 2011.

  Type species:

   Eiconaxiopsis heinrichi Sakai, 2011 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Poore, G.C.B. 2017. Synonymy and problematic species of Eiconaxius Spence Bate, 1888, with descriptions of new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea: Axiidae). Zootaxa 4231(3): 364–376 [Date published 13 Feb 2017] [365]

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-west Pacific to Panama, eastern Pacific, and the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Mar-2025	CRUSTACEA Brünnich, 1772	01-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Gary Poore
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	01-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
08-May-2012		08-May-2012	MODIFIED
		03-Jun-2010	MODIFIED