(Dana, 1852)

Carapace smooth in adult individuals with antero-lateral crest fading away with age; distance of epibranchial tooth to exorbital about 1/3 orbita breadth. Horny endpiece of male first pleopod with a strong V-shaped indentation terminally, lower face of plate not visible. Operculum of female genital duct very much protruded, covering the vulval slit in ventral view. (Türkay 1995)

Type locality: Fiji.
Range: Madagascar (Alcock, 1900b); Mauritius (Ortmann, 1894a); Andaman Islands (Alcock, 1900b); Nicobar Islands (Alcock, 1900b); Japan - Okinawa (Stimpson, 1907), Northern Daito-jima (Sakai, 1939), Yaeyama-retto and N. and S. Daito-jima (Sakai, 1976a), Tokashiki (Türkay & Sakai, 1976), Ishigaki-jima (Miyake, 1983), Ginowan, Okinawa (Shokita et al., 2000), Amami-Oshima; Taiwan - Kaohsiung and Wolanpi (Sakai, 1939, Lin, 1949); Indonesia - Edam Island (de Man, 1888d); Palau (Sakai, 1939); eastern Australia; Fiji (Dana, 1852); Hawaiian Islands.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Thoracotremata
Superfamily Grapsidoidea
Family Gecarcinidae
Genus Discoplax
Species Discoplax hirtipes

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Cardisoma hirtipes Dana, 1851e: 253. -- Dana, 1852c: 376. -- Milne Edwards H., 1853: 205. -- Dana, 1855: pl. 24, fig. 2a-d. -- Miers, 1876b: 53. -- de Man, 1880a: 34. -- de Man, 1888d: 349, pl. 14, fig. 3. -- Ortmann, 1894a: 737. -- Alcock, 1900b: 447. -- Stimpson, 1907: 111. -- Tesch, 1918a: 137. -- Gordon, 1934: 5, fig. 1. -- Koba, 1936: 159, fig. 1. -- Sakai, 1936b: 174, pl. 14, fig. 4. -- Sakai, 1939: 704, pl. 111, fig. 1. -- Lin, 1949: 31. -- Edmondson, 1962b: 23. -- Michel, 1964: 12. -- Shen & Dai, 1964: 141, fig. -- Türkay, 1974: 229, figs 2, 12-13. -- Sakai, 1976a: 679, pl. 231. -- Türkay & Sakai, 1976: 14, figs 2, 6, pl. 1, figs 3-4. -- Miyake, 1983: 187, pl. 63, fig. 2. -- Dai et al., 1986. -- Dai & Yang, 1991: 568, fig. 295(2), pl. 74(6). -- Ho et al., 1992. -- Wada, 1995: 404, pl. 113, fig. 2. -- Wang & Liu, 1996a. -- Yu et al., 1996. -- Ho, 1997. -- Ho & Hung, 1997. -- Jeng, 1997. -- Jeng, 1998. -- Wang & Liu, 1998. -- Ng, 1998c: 1148(key), 1151, fig. -- Shokita et al., 2000: 646, 658(list), photo 13.
Discoplax hirtipes Türkay, 1987. -- Ng et al., 2000b: 381(in key).

Okagani [Japanese]

Alcock, A.W., 1900b. Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 6. The Brachyura Catometopa or Grapsoidea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 69(3): 279-456.

Dai, A. & S. Yang, 1991. Crabs of the China Seas, i-iv, 1-608, figs 1-295, pls 1-74. China Ocean Press, Beijing and Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo, English edition. (Translation from Chinese original 1986.)

Dai, A., S. Yang, Y. Song & G. Chen, 1986. Crabs of Chinese Seas, i-iv, 1-642, figs 1-295, pls 1-74. Ocean Press, Beijing. (In Chinese.)

Dana, J.D., 1851e. Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Ocyclometopa, Edwardsii): Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e Classe Republicae Foederatae duce, lexit et descripsit. 8. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5 (before August 1851): 247-254 (pages 1-8 on separate.)

Dana, J.D., 1852c. Crustacea. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N., 13(pt. 1): i-viii, 1-685, pl. 8.

Dana, J.D., 1855. Crustacea. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N., 14(Atlas): 1-27, pls 1-96.

de Man, J.G., 1880a. On some species of the genus Sesarma Say and Cardisoma Latr. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 2(5): 21-36. [1880/I]

de Man, J.G., 1888d. Bericht über die von Herrn. Dr. J. Brock im indischen Archipel gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 53(pt. 1): 289-600, pls 11-22a.

Edmondson, C.H., 1962b. Hawaiian Crustacea: Goneplacidae, Pinnotheridae, Cymopoliidae, Ocypodidae, and Gecarcinidae. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 23(1): 1-27, figs 1-10.

Gordon, I., 1934. Crustacea Brachyura. In: Résultats scientifique du voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises de LL. AA. RR. de Prince et la Princesse Léopold de Belgique. Mémoires du Musée royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique, Hors-série, 3(15): 1-78, figs 1-37.

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

Ho, P.-H., J.-Y. Shy & H.-P. Yu, 1992. The land crabs of the family Gecarcinidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) of Taiwan. Annuals of Taiwan Museum, 35: 51-66. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Ho, P.-H., 1997. Land crabs which breed in the sea (7). Fisheries Extension, Taipei, 134: 9-12. (in Chinese)

Jeng, M.-S, 1997. Studies on the land and aquatic decapod crustacean fauna of the Kenting National Park (II) Communities of decapod crustaceans around the sea. ii+66 pp. Ministry of the Interior, Taipei. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Jeng, M.-S, 1998. The Prawns and Crabs of Kenting National Park. 133 pp. Kenting National Park Hand Guides No. 14. (in Chinese)

Koba, K., 1936. Occurrence of the Land-Crab Cardisoma hirtipes Dana in the Ryukyu (Loo Choo) Islands, Japan. Bulletin biogeographical Society, Tokyo, 6(15): 159-164, 1 fig.

Lin, C.C., 1949. A catalogue of Brachyurous Crustacea of Taiwan. Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum, 2(1): 10-33.

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

Miers, E.J., 1876b. Catalogue of the stalk- and sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand, i-xii, 1-136, pls 1-3. Colonial Museum & Geological Survey Department, London.

Milne-Edwards, H., 1853. Mémoire sur la famille des Ocypodiens. Annales du Science Naturelles, Zoologie, (3) 20: 163-226, pls 6-11. (A continuation of H. Milne Edwards, 1852, and reprinted with it in undated Mélanges Carcinologiques, pages 129-196.)

Miyake, S., 1983. Japanese Crustacean Decapods and Stomatopods in color. Vol. II. Brachyura (Crabs), i-viii, 1-277, pls 1-64. Hoikusha, Osaka. (In Japanese; second edition in 1992)

Ng, P.K.L., Y. Nakasone & T. Kosuge, 2000b. Presence of the land crab, Epigrapsus politus Heller (Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae) in Japan and Christmas Island, with a key to the Japanese Gecarcinidae. Crustaceana, 73(3): 379-381.

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.

Ortmann, A.E., 1894a. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. Theil VIII. Abtheilung: Brachyura (Brachyura genuina Boas), III. Unterabtheilung: Cancroidea. 2. Section: Cancrinea, 2. Gruppe: Catametopa. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 7: 683-772, pl. 23.

Sakai, T., 1936b. Crabs of Japan: 66 plates in life colours with descriptions. Sanseido, Tokyo (1935): 1-239, figs 1-122, 27 pages of bibliography & index, frontispiece (in colour), pls 1-66 (colour). (In Japanese)

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.

Shen, C.J. & A.Y. Dai, 1964. Illustrations of Animals in China (Crustacea part II), Peking: 1-172, 277 figs.

Shokita, S., Y. Fujita, T. Nagai & A. Kawakami, 2000. Decapod Crustacea in Ginowan City, Okinawa Island. History of the Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture, 9: 629-658.

Stimpson, W., 1907. Report on the Crustacea (Brachyura and Anomura) collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 1853-1856. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Washington, 49(1717): 1-240, pls 1-26.

Tesch, J.J., 1918a. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga-Expedition. I. Hymenosomidae, Retroplumidae, Ocypodidae, Grapsidae and Gecarcinidae. Siboga Expeditie Monografie, 39C1(82): 1-148, pls 1-6.

Türkay, M. & K. Sakai, 1976. Die Gecarcinidae von Japan (Crustacea, Decapoda). Researches on Crustacea, 7: 11-22, figs 1-9, pls 1-2. (English & Japanese summaries.)

Türkay, M., 1974. Die Gecarcinidae Asiens und Ozeaniens (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenbergiana biologica, 55(4/6): 223-259, figs 1-19, maps 1-2. (English summary.)

Türkay, M., 1987. Landkrabben. Natur und Museum, Frankfurt a. M., 117(5): 143-150, figs 1-9.

Wada, K., 1995. Brachyura. In: S. Nishimura, Guide to seashore animals of Japan with color pictures and keys. Vol. 2: 379-418, pls 101-118. (In Japanese)

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)

Yu, H.-P., M.-S. Jeng, T.-Y. Chan, P.-H. Ho & J.-Y. Shy, 1996. Studies on the land and aquatic decapod crustacean fauna of the Kenting National Park. ii+79 pp. Ministry of the Interior, Taipei. (in Chinese with English abstract)

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