Stimpson, 1858

Lateral margin of the carapace with a tooth behind the external orbital angle. Cervical groove shallow. Two distinct parallel transverse ridges on the hepatic region of the carapace before the cervical groove. Suborbital tooth obtuse and not keeled. The propodi of the first three ambulatory legs without a row of fine hairs on the posterior surface. The chitinous projection of the male pleopod usually without or seldom with a very shallow concavity at its top, its distal margin not curved. (Davie 1997)

Type locality: near Macao, China, tide marks.
Range: Indian Ocean; Malacca (de Man, 1898); Singapore (Tweedie, 1936); China - Macao (Stimpson, 1907), Qingdao (Shen, 1936), Ningbo, Pingtan, Santuao, Chuanchih, Liuwutien, Tsimei, and Xiamen (Shen, 1940b), Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and south coast of Shandong Peninsula (Dai & Yang, 1991); Indonesia - west Celebes (de Man, 1898), Moluccas, Java, Borneo; New Guinea.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Thoracotremata
Superfamily Grapsidoidea
Family Grapsidae
Subfamily Grapsinae
Genus Metopograpsus
Species Metopograpsus quadridentatus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Metopograpsus quadridentatus Stimpson, 1858b: 102. -- de Man, 1883: 158. -- de Man, 1895b: 76. -- de Man, 1898: 698(list), pl. 28, fig. 16. -- Stimpson, 1907: 115, pl. 16, fig. 2. -- Tesch, 1918a: 79(key). -- Shen, 1936a: 69, fig. 3. -- Shen, 1937b: 170. -- Shen, 1940b: 99. -- Banerjee, 1960: 192, figs 5g, 6i. -- Shen & Dai, 1964: 138, fig. -- Dai & Yang, 1991: 508, fig. 260(3), pl. 65(2).
Pachygrapsus quadratus Tweedie, 1936: 48, pl. 15, fig. 1.

Macao-hashiri-ìwagani [Japanese]
hashiri-ìwagani, Macao- [Japanese]

Banerjee, S.K., 1960. Biological results of the Snellius expedition. XVIII. The genera Grapsus, Geograpsus and Metopograpsus (Crustacea Brachyura). Temminckia, 10: 132-199, 6 figs.

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.)

de Man, J.G., 1883. Carcinological Studies in the Leyden Museum. No. 3. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 5: 150-169.

de Man, J.G., 1895b. Bericht über die von Herrn Schiffscapitän Storm zu Atjeh, an den westlichen Küsten von Malakka, Borneo und Celebes sowie in der Java-See gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. (In 6 parts). Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. Vol. 9(Teil 2): 75-218, figs 16-39. [1895/XII]

de Man, J.G., 1898. Bericht über die von Herrn Schiffscapitän Storm zu Atjeh, an den westlichen Küsten von Malakka, Borneo und Celebes sowie in der Java-See gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Theil 6. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 10: 677-708, pls 28-38. [1898/II]

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

Shen, C.J., 1936a. Additions to the fauna of Brachyuran Crustacea of North China. Contr. Inst. Zool. Nat. Acad. Peiping, 3(3): 59-76, figs 1-4. VI/1936.

Shen, C.J., 1937b. On some Account of the Crabs of North China. Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology (Zool.), Peiping, 7(5): 167-185.

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.

Stimpson, W., 1858b. Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars V. Crustacea Ocypodoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 10: 93-110 (39-56).

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.

Tweedie, M.W.F., 1936. On the crabs of the Family Grapsidae in the collection of the Raffles Museum. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 12: 44-70, figs 1-3, pls 14-15.

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