Australian Museum Journal Swimming crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Portunidae) from One Tree Island, Capricorn Group, Queensland
- Shortform:
- Griffin, 1969, Rec. Aust. Mus. 27(19): 349–354
- Author(s):
- Griffin, D. J. G.
- Year published:
- 1969
- Title:
- Swimming crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Portunidae) from One Tree Island, Capricorn Group, Queensland
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 19
- Start page:
- 349
- End page:
- 354
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.27.1969.453
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates 47–49
- Date published:
- 21 March 1969
- Cover date:
- 21 March 1969
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA
- Digitized:
- 09 December 2008
- Available online:
- 03 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 453
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (108kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1387kb PDF)
Abstract
Two species of portunid swimming crab, Charybdis (Goniosupradens) obtusifrons Leene and Thalamitoides quadridens A. Milne Edwards, are recorded from Australia for the first time and a species of Portunus considered to belong to P. longispinosus (Dana) is recorded from Australia for the second time; the status of Australian specimens of this species is discussed. The ecological distribution on One Tree Island of these three species and eight other portunids collected in 1966 and 1967 by Australian Museum expeditions is briefly discussed.