(H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

Carapace about 1.6 times broader than long. No tooth at epibranchial angle of carapace. Surface of carapace very finely punctate and smooth. Front nearly straight and feebly sinuous. Third maxilliped with external surface smooth. Crest on antero-lateral margins of carapace continued to epibranchial angle by a short transverse crest on epibranchial region. Chelipeds have clearly defined crest on superior margin of palm. Colour is reddish with spots of yellow, sometimes uniform brown. Attains 120 mm carapace breadth. (Davie 1997)

Type locality: Australia.
Range: Mauritius (Serène, 1984); Sumatra - Simeuluë Island (de Man, 1926b); Japan - Northern Daito-jima (Sakai, 1939, 1976); Taiwan; China - China Sea (de Haan, 1835), Hong Kong (Shen, 1940b); Australia (H. Milne Edwards, 1834, Serène, 1984); Marshall Islands.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Heterotremata
Superfamily Xanthoidea
Family Xanthidae
Subfamily Zosiminae
Genus Atergatis
Species Atergatis latissimus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Atergatis latissimus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Zozimus latissimus Milne Edwards H., 1834: 384.
Cancer (Atergatis) frontalis de Haan, 1833-1849 (1835): 46, pl. 14, fig. 3. -- Yamaguchi, 1993: 578.
Atergatis sinuatifrons White, 1848a: 224. -- Adams & White, 1848: 38.
Atergatis latissimus Milne Edwards A., 1865c: 237, pl. 14, fig. 1. -- Odhner, 1925: 83. -- Balss, 1938a: 37. -- Tweedie, 1947: 30. -- Buitendijk, 1960: 272. -- Michel, 1964: 22. -- Guinot, 1967a: 261. -- Serène, 1980: 713, pl. 1A. -- Serène, 1984: 145(key), 146(key), 149, pl. 21E. -- Wang & Liu, 1996a. -- Wang & Liu, 1998.
Atergatis frontalis Milne Edwards A., 1865c: 238. -- Shen, 1940b: 72, 85. -- Buitendijk, 1960: 271. -- Sakai, 1976a: 410, fig. 215. -- Muraoka, 1998: 39.
Atergatis integerrimus frontalis Paulson, 1875: 14.
Atergatis latissimus frontalis de Man, 1926b: 205. -- Sakai, 1939: 448, pl. 88, fig. 1.

Non Atergatis frontalis -- de Man, 1879: 54.
= Atergatis reticulatus de Haan, 1835.

Hoshi-manjyugani [Japanese]
manjyugani, Hoshi- [Japanese]

Adams, A. & A. White, 1848. Crustacea. Part 1. In: A. Adams (ed.), The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1843-1846, 1-32, pls 1-6. Benham & Reeve, London.

Balss, H., 1938a. Die Dekapoda Brachyura von Dr. Sixten Bock's Pazifik Expedition 1917-1918. Göteborges Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhälles Handlingar, Ser. B, 5(7): 1-85, figs 1-18, pls 1-2.

Buitendijk, A.M., 1960. Biological results of the Snellius Expedition. XXI. Brachyura of the families Atelecyclidae and Xanthidae. Part I. Temminckia, 10: 252-335, figs 1-9.

de Haan, W., 1833-1849. Crustacea. In: Ph.F. von Siebold, Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823-1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit: ix-xvi, i-xxi, vii-xvii, 1-243, pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2. (For dates see Sherborn & Jentink, 1895 and Holthuis, 1953.)

de Man, J.G., 1879. On some new or imperfectly known Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Leyden Museum. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1(19): 53-73. [1879/IV]

de Man, J.G., 1926b. Fauna Simalurensis - Decapoda (Crustacea) - On two species of Crabs from the island of Simalur, one of which is new to science. Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leyden, 9: 199-210, pl. 1.

Guinot, D., 1967a. La faune carcinologique (Crustacea Brachyura) de l'Océan Indien Occidental et de la Mer Rouge: Catalogue, remarques biogéographiques et bibliographiques. In: Réunion de Spécialistes C.S.A. sur les Crustacés, Zanzibar 1964. Mémoires de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique Noire, 77 (1966): 235-352, pls 1-26, 1 table.

Michel, C., 1964. Checklist of the Crustacea Brachyura (Crabs) recorded from Mauritius. Mauritius Institute Bulletin, 6(1): 1-48.

Milne Edwards, A., 1865c. Études zoologiques sur les Crustacés récents de la famille des Cancériens. Cancérides, Pirimélides, Carpilides, Première Partie. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 1: 177-308, pls 11-19.

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.)

Muraoka, K., 1998. Catalogue of the Brachyuran and Anomuran Crabs donated by Prof. Dr. Tune Sakai to the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum. Catalogue of the Collection in the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, 11: 5-67, pls 1-16.

Odhner, T., 1925. Monographierte Gattungen der Krabben-familie Xanthidae. I. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhälles Handlingar, (4) 29(1): 1-92, figs 1-7, pls 1-5. (in German)

Paulson, O.M., 1875. Izledovaniya rakoobraznykh krasnago morya s zametkami otnositel 'no rakoobraznykh drugikh morei. Tchasst I. Podophthalmata i Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). (Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea with notes regarding other Seas, Part I). Kiev Kul'zhenko, i-xiv, 1-144, pls 1-21. (In Russian)

Sakai, T., 1939. Studies on the crabs of Japan. IV. Brachygnatha, Brachyrhyncha, pp. 365-741, figs 1-129, pls 42-111, table 1. Yokendo Co., Tokyo.

Sakai, T., 1976a. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. (In 3 volumes: (1) English text: i-xxix, 1-773, figs 1-379, (2) Plates volume: 1-16, pls 1-251, (3) Japanese text: 1-461, figs 1-2, 3 maps.) Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo.

Serène, R., 1980. Notes sur quelques crustacés brachyoures provenant principalement de l'île Maurice et conservés au Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Genève. Description d'Etisus zehntneri sp. nov. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 87(3): 711-722, illustr. (English summary)

Serène, R., 1984. Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures de l'Océan Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge, Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Avec un addendum par Crosnier (A): Carpiliidae et Menippidae. Faune Tropicale, no. XXIV: 1-349, figs A-C + 1-243, pls 1-48. (In French) (Translated into English by R.W. Ingle).

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.

Tweedie, M.W.F., 1947. On the Brachyura of Christmas Island. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 18: 27-42, 1 fig.

Wang, C.-H. & H.-C. Liu, 1996a. Common Seashore crabs of Taiwan. Taiwan Museum, Taipei, pp 1-138. (in Chinese)

Wang, C.-H. & H.-C. Liu, 1998. Common Seashore Crabs of Taiwan. (Second edition) 136 pp. Taiwan Museum, Taipei. (in Chinese)

White, A., 1848a. Short Descriptions of new or little-known Decapod Crustacea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15(pt. 15, no.79) (1847): 222-228, 2 figs.

Yamaguchi, T., 1993. A list of Species described in the Crustacea Volume of Fauna Japonica as belonging to the Japanese Fauna. In: T. Yamaguchi (ed.), Ph. von Siebold and Natural History of Japan. Crustacea. Carcinological Society of Japan: 571-598, figs 1-2.

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