Species Hippa marmorata (Jacquinot in Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Remipes marmoratus Jacquinot, H. in Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, H. 1846. Atlas d'Histoire Naturelle Zoologie par MM. Hombron et Jacquinot, chirurgiens de l'expédition. In, Voyage au pôle sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée; exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840 sous les commandement de M. Dumont d'Urville capitaine de vaisseau publié sous les auspices du département de la marine et sous la direction superieure de M. Jacquinot, capitaine de Vaisseau, commandant de La Zelee. Livraison 19. Oiseaux pl. 28; Crustacés pls 5, 8; Insectes orthoptères pls 1, 2. Paris : Gide et Cie. [pl. 8 figs 22-26].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 4 specimens (examiined by Haig (1974)), Raffles Bay, NT, Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Haig, J. 1974. A review of the Australian crabs of family Hippidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(1): 175-189 figs 1-5 pl. 6 [182].
• Cancer arnoldorum Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp. [167].
• Remipes pacificus Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea, Part 1. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(1): 1-685 [407 pl. 25 fig. 7].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCZ 1406 ♀, Hawai'ian Islands (as Sandwich Islands); USNM (presumed lost), Fiji.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Haig, J. 1974. A review of the Australian crabs of family Hippidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(1): 175-189 figs 1-5 pl. 6 [401]
• ICZN 2004. Opinion 2063 (Case 3106) Remipes marmorata Jacquinot, 1846 (currently Hippa marmorata; Crustacea, Anomura): priority maintained. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 68: 55-56 [suppressed the use of the widely used name H. pacifica]
• Boyko, C.B. & McLaughlin, P.A. 2010. Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part IV – Hippoidea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 23: 139-151 [http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/index.php/supplements/12-research/research-publications/254-supplement-no-23] [142]
• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Hippa pacifica (Dana, 1852) [suppressed name commonly used in former literature].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tanzania eastward to Australia, north to China and across to the Hawaiian Islands; in the east Pacific from the upper Gulf of California south to Panama as well as Socorro, Clipperton, Cocos, and the Galapagos Islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sand substrate, subtidal.

 

General References

Haig, J. 1974. A review of the Australian crabs of family Hippidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(1): 175-189 figs 1-5 pl. 6 [181] (considered to be a possible synonym of H. pacifica (Dana))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Mar-2025	CRUSTACEA Brünnich, 1772	14-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Gary Poore
24-Apr-2012		24-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)