(Fabricius, 1798)

Gastric region distinct and fairly distinctly subdivided into three lobes; between it and the front are four pimple-like tubercles standing in a square. Two low indistinct somewhat granular elevations, nearly parallel with the curve of the antero-lateral border, traverse either branchial region; the first, which is the more distinct, can generally be traced across the gastric region also. The surface of the carapace is finely pitted anterior-laterally, but elsewhere is smooth. The front, which is not quite a fifth the greatest breadth of the carapace, consists of two prominent round-pointed lobes, outside of each of which is a prominent rounded tooth separated from the supraorbital margin by a groove.
The antero-lateral border is fairly sharp and is divided into four broad lobes, of which the last two are distinctly, the first two indistinctly acuminate. P1 massive, a little unequal, smooth with some fine and distant pitting: inner angle of carpus bluntly prominent; fingers stout, rather short.
P2-5 stout, smooth, except the upper border which is sometimes microscopically granular: upper border of carpus sparsely, both borders of propodi and dactyli more thickly, setose.
Colours in spirit reddish or brownish yellow with sometimes a fine network of darker markings; fingers black. (Alcock, 1898: 178)

Type locality: East Indies.
Range: Red Sea; Mozambique - Delagoa Bay (Barnard, 1950); Persian Gulf (Alcock, 1898); Pakistan - Karachi (Alcock, 1898); Laccadive Islands (Alcock, 1898); India - Madras coast (Alcock, 1898); Sri Lanka (Alcock, 1898); Burma - Tavoy (Alcock, 1898), Maungmagan near Tavoy (Chopra & Das, 1937); Mergui Archipelago (Alcock, 1898); Malaysia - Penang (Alcock, 1898); Hainan Island (Shen, 1936, 1940); Taiwan.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Heterotremata
Superfamily Xanthoidea
Family Eriphiidae
Subfamily Oziinae
Genus Menippe
Species Menippe rumphii

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Menippe rumphii (Fabricius)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Cancer Rumphii Fabricius, 1798: 336. -- Herbst, 1799: 63, pl. 49, fig. 2.
Pseudocarcinus Bellangeri Milne Edwards H., 1834: 409, pl. 14 bis, fig. 15.
Menippe bellangeri Heller, 1865: 15. -- Müller, 1887: 474.
Menippe rumphii Alcock, 1898: 178. -- Shen, 1936c: 67. -- Chopra & Das, 1937: 404. -- Shen, 1940b: 72, 86. -- Stephensen, 1945: 139. -- Barnard, 1950: 818. -- Ho & Hung, 1997. -- Jeng et al., 1997. -- Lai et al., 1997. -- Ng, 1998c: 1105(key), 1107, fig. -- Sakai K., 1999: 31, pl. 16D.
Menippe Rumphii Klunzinger, 1913: 283.

Rumphius-iso-óhgigani [Japanese]
iso-óhgigani, Rumphius- [Japanese]

Alcock, A.W., 1898. Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part 1. The Family Xanthidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 67, part 2(1): 67-233.

Barnard, K.H., 1950. Descriptive catalogue of South African Decapod Crustacea (Crabs and Shrimps). Annals of the South African Museum, 38: 1-837, figs 1-154.

Chopra, B.N. & K.N. Das, 1937. Further notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. IX. On three collections of crabs from Tavoy and Mergui Archipelago. Record of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 39(4): 377-434, figs 1-21, pl. 6.

Fabricius, J.C., 1798. Supplementatum Entomologiae systematicae, pp. 1-572. Hafniae, Proft & Storch.

Heller, C., 1865. Die Crustaceen. 1. In: Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857-1859 under den Befehlen des Commodors B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Zoologischer Theil, 2(pt. 3): 1-280, pls 1-25. Wien.

Herbst, J.F.W., 1799. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten, 3(1): 1-66, pls 47-50.

Ho, P.-H. & M.-S. Hung, 1997. Seashore crabs of Hsin-Chu City. 122 pp. Hsin-Chu City Government, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. (in Chinese)

Jeng, M.-S., R.-G. Chan, H.-R. Fung, & Q.-S. Chen, 1997. Northeast Coast Scenic Area. Investigations into ecological resources and monitering. 194 pp. Ministry of Transport and Tourism. Taipei. (in Chinese)

Klunzinger, C.B., 1913. Die Rundkrabben (Cyclometopa) des Roten Meeres. Abhandlungen der kaiserlich Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Halle, 99(2): 97-402, figs 1-4, pls 5-11.

Lai, S.-H., J.-F. Huang & L.-S. Fang, 1997. Crab fauna of Kaohsiung Harbor, southwestern Taiwan. Annual of Taiwan Museum, 40: 225-240. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Milne-Edwards, H., 1834. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, Vol. 1: i-xxxv, 1-468, pls 3, 5-6, 15-17, 20, 22-23, 25. (See Holthuis, 1979, for dates of publication.)

Müller, F., 1887. Zur Crustaceen-fauna von Trincomali. Verhandlungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel, 8: 470-485, pls 4-5.

Ng, P.K.L., 1998c. Crabs. In: K.E. Carpenter & N. Volker (eds.), FAO Species Identification Guide for fishery purposes. the living marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 1. Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome: 1046-1155.

Sakai, K., 1999. J.F.W. Herbst - collection of Decapod Crustacea of the Berlin Zoologica Museum, with remarks on certain species. Naturalists, Publications of Tokushima Biological Laboratory, Shikoku University, 6: 1-45, pls 1-21.

Shen, C.J., 1936c. On a collection of Brachyuran Decapoda from Hainan Island, with description of three new species. Chinese Journal of Zoology, 2: 63-80, figs 1-4.

Shen, C.J., 1940b. On the collection of Crabs of South China. Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology (Zool.), Peiping, 10(2): 69-104.

Stephensen, K., 1945. The Brachyura of the Iranian Gulf with an Appendix: The male pleopod of the Brachyura. In: Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part 4. Copenhagen, E. Munksgaard: 57-237, figs 1-60.

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