de Man, 1926

Tooth on inner surface of carpus of male cheliped; male carpus rounded or rhomboidal. Orbits nearly transverse, eyes short and thick. An antero-lateral tooth distinctly separated from external angle by a deep concavity; lateral border of carapace sometimes with feebly marked epibranchial angle. Inner part of the infraorbital ridge in the male armed with 8-9 conspicuous teeth. Meri of pereiopods 2-5 not remarkably stout and short. (Davie 1996)

Type locality: Bay of Jakarta, Java.
Range: Taiwan (Takahashi, 1935); Indonesia - Bay of Jakarta (de Man, 1926a).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Thoracotremata
Superfamily Ocypodoidea
Family Ocypodidae
Subfamily Dotillinae
Genus Ilyoplax
Species Ilyoplax delsmani

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Ilyoplax delsmani de Man, 1926a: 16, 12 figs. -- Takahashi, 1935: 78.

White semaphore crab [English]
Semaphore crab, white [English]
Jakarta-chigogani [Japanese]
chigogani, Jakarta- [Japanese]

de Man, J.G., 1926a. Ilyoplax delsmani n. sp., a new species of Ocypodidae. Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leyden, 9: 16-27, 12 figs.

Takahashi, S., 1935. Ecological notes on the ocypodian crabs (Ocypodidae) in Formosa, Japan. Annotationes zoologicae japonenses, 15: 78-87, pl. 6. (in Japanese)

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