Redescriptions of the Australian majid spider crabs Leptomithrax gaimardii (H. Milne Edwards) and Paramithrax barbicornis (Latreille)

  • Author
    D. J. G. Griffin
  • Year
    1963
  • Journal
    Records of the Australian Museum
  • Publisher
    The Australian Museum

Abstract

Paramithrax gaimardii H. Milne Edwards, 1834, is redescribed and figured from photographs of the holotype. It is regarded as a species of Leptomithrax Miers, 1876, conspecific with L. australiensis Miers, 1876, and L. spinulosus Haswell, 1880. Paramithrax barbicornis (Latreille, 1825) is also redescribed and figured and is considered synonymous with Gonatorhynchus tumidus Haswell, 1880, following Balss (1929). This species was designated as the type of the genus Paramithrax H. Milne Edwards, 1834, by Desmarest (1858) and the genus Gonatorhynchus Haswell, 1880, is consequently reduced to synonymy with Paramithrax.

 
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Bibliographic Data

Short Form
Griffin, 1963, Rec. Aust. Mus. 26(4): 131–143
Author
D. J. G. Griffin
Year
1963
Title
Redescriptions of the Australian majid spider crabs Leptomithrax gaimardii (H. Milne Edwards) and Paramithrax barbicornis (Latreille)
Serial Title
Records of the Australian Museum
Volume
26
Issue
4
Start Page
131
End Page
143
DOI
10.3853/j.0067-1975.26.1963.672
Language
en
Plates
plates 6–7
Date Published
01 November 1963
Cover Date
01 November 1963
ISSN (print)
0067-1975
CODEN
RAUMAJ
Publisher
The Australian Museum
Place Published
Sydney, Australia
Subjects
CRUSTACEA
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Available Online
23 July 2009
Reference Number
672
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