Dai, Yang, Feng & Song, 1978

Merus of first ambulatory leg of adult male with four to five small tubercles dorsally behind the terminal spine and two tubercles proximally on outer face; merus of fourth ambulatory leg smooth. (Davie 1996)

Type locality: Beidao, Paracel Islands, China.
Range: Japan - Kakeroma-jima near Amami-Oshima (Takeda, 1989); China - Paracel Islands (Dai et al., 1978, Dai & Yang, 1991).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Heterotremata
Superfamily Majoidea
Family Majidae
Subfamily Pisinae
Genus Tylocarcinus
Species Tylocarcinus sinensis

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Tylocarcinus sinensis Dai et al., 1978: 226, fig. 3a-i, pl. 1, fig. 3. -- Griffin & Tranter, 1986a: 197(key). -- Takeda, 1989: 148, fig. 8A. -- Dai & Yang, 1991: 141, pl. 16(5), fig. 71(2).

Daiaiyun-tsunogani [Japanese]
tsunogani, Daiaiyun- [Japanese]

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, Z. Feng & Y. Song, 1978. On the crabs of the Xisha Islands -- Oxyrhyncha. Acta zoologica sinica, 24(3): 225-230, figs 1-4, pl. 1. (In Chinese with English summary).

Griffin, D.J.G. & H.A. Tranter, 1986a. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. VIII. Majidae. Siboga Expeditie Monografie, 39(C4): 1-335, figs 1-112, pls 1-22.

Takeda, M., 1989. Shallow-water Crabs from the Oshima Passage between Amami-Oshima and Kakeroma-jima Islands, the Northern Ryukyu Islands. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 22: 135-184, figs 1-17, pl. 4, table 1.

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