(Rathbun, 1909)

Type locality: Laem Ngop, Gulf of Thailand.
Range: east coast of Africa (Barnard, 1955); Dar es Salaam (Hartnoll, 1975); Madagascar - Nosy Bé and Toliara (Crosnier, 1965); Japan - Amakusa (Yamaguchi et al., 1976); Gulf of Thailand - Laem Ngop (Rathbun, 1909); New Caledonia - Nouméa (Takeda & Nunomura, 1976).

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

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Ilyograpsus paludicola (Rathbun, 1909)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Camptandrium paludicola Rathbun, 1909: 109. -- Rathbun, 1910a: 326, fig. 9a-b. -- Tesch, 1918a: 68. -- Shen, 1935b: 30(in key), 31.
Ilyograpsus rhizophorae Barnard, 1955: 26, fig. 8a-g.
Ilyograpsus paludicola Crosnier, 1965: 31, figs 36-37, 38a-b, 39, 59. -- Hartnoll, 1975: 307, table 1. -- Takeda & Nunomura, 1976: 84. -- Yamaguchi et al., 1976: 41, fig. 2(8).

Thai-íwagani [Japanese]
iwagani, Thai- [Japanese]

Barnard, K.H., 1955. Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum, 43(1): 1-107, figs 1-53.

Crosnier, A., 1965. Crustacés Décapodes. Grapsidae et Ocypodidae. Faune de Madagascar, 18: 1-143, figs 1-260, pls 1-11.

Hartnoll, R.G., 1975. The Grapsidae and Ocypodidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Tanzania. Journal of Zoology, London, 177(3): 305-328, 8 figs, 3 tabs.

Rathbun, M.J., 1909. New Crabs from the Gulf of Siam. Proceedings of the biological Society of Washington, 22: 107-114.

Rathbun, M.J., 1910a. The Brachyura. In: The Danish Expedition to Siam, 1899-1900. V. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Kjøbenhavn, (7) 5(4): 301-367, figs 1-44, pls 1-2, 1 map.

Shen, C.J., 1935b. On some new and rare crabs of the families Pinnotheridae, Grapsidae and Ocypodidae from China. Chinese Journal of Zoology, 1: 19-40, figs 1-15.

Takeda, M. & N. Nunomura, 1976. Crabs collected by the Melanesia Expedition of the Osaka Museum of Natural History, 1958. Bulletin Osaka Museum of Natural History, 30: 61-92, figs 1-3.

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.

Yamaguchi, T., M. Takeda & K. Tokudome, 1976. A list of crabs collected in the vicinity of the Aitsu Marine Biological Station and a preliminary report on the cheliped asymmetry of the crabs. Calanus, 5: 31-46, figs., pl., 2 tabs.

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