Decapoda - Brachyura - Gecarcinidae - Discoplax
| Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 |
World Distribution
Ng & Shi (2015, Zootaxa) - Loyalty Islands (type locality); Niue; Fiji; Cook Islands; Makatea, Tuamotu, French Polynesia
Environnement : Land - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-20 m
New Caledonia data
Discoplax longipes - Guinot et al., 2018: 550, holotype, male 54.0 × 55.0 mm, New Caledonia, dry, MNHN-IU-2000-3763 (= MNHN-B3763) (see N. K. Ng et al. in press: fig. 2C); 1 male 36.0 × 44.0 mm, New Caledonia, MNHN-IU-2017-10001 (= MNHN-B17134); 1 male 61.7 × 71.9 mm, 1 female, Loyalty Islands, Ouvea Atoll, Cong-Ouloup Cave, coll. J.-P. Guillerm, 26.IX.1987, MNHN-IU-2017-10002 (= MNHN-B20150); 1 male 32.4 × 37.2 mm, 1 female 32.6 × 37 mm, Loyalty Islands, Lifou, Inegoj Cave, B. Séret coll., 2.IX.1993, D. Guinot det. 1993, MNHNIU-2008-11402 (= MNHN-B24815); 1 female 32.5 × 36.7 mm, 1 female, Loyalty Islands, Lifou, Inegoj Cave, 12.VIII.95, Guinot & Ng det. 1999, MNHN-IU-2017-8405 (= MNHN-B26944)
Discoplax longipes - Ng PKL & Shi, 2015, Zootaxa: 382, tab. 1, New Caledonia (ZRC 2001.1150), p. 383, Holotype: male (54.6 × 48.5 mm) (MNHN–B3763 S), "New Caledonia" and a lot of other spp. From MNHN collection, Lifou.
Discoplax longipes - Ng P & Guinot D, The Raffes Bulletin of Zoology 49, 2: 311-338: Nouvelle Caledonie, NC165, NC150, NC144, NC114, NC73.
Discoplax longipes - Ng & Guinot, 2001: 317: fig. 2a, 4a, 5-8, 12a, 13 (Loyalty Islands and Guam; key of Discoplax and list of recognised species of Gecarcinidae). - Ng et al., 2019 (Zoosystema): 98, LECTOTYPE (by inference of holotype by Türkay 1974c: 259, as Cardisoma longipes; Ng & Guinot 2001: 317). — MNHN-IU-2000-3763 (= MNHN-B3763), ? 54.0 × 55.0 mm, New Caledonia; presumed type, D. Guinot 1972; Discoplax longipes A. Edw., B3763, det. Guinot & Ng 2001. — Original label: “Cardisoma longipes, A. M. Edw. (= Discoplax longipes A. Edw.), Nouvelle-Calédonie”. Additional labels: “Cardisoma longipes A. M. Edw. (= Discoplax longipes A. M. Edw.). Nelle Calédonie”. “Type présumé, D. Guinot 1972”. “Cardisoma longipes (A. Milne-Edwards 1873), Révision M. Türkay VI.1972”; “Discoplax longipes A. Edw., B3763, det. Guinot et Ng 2001”. [See remarks, probably not main island of New Caledonia, but Loyalty Islands]
Guinot et al., 2013: 285, Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867, male 52.0 × 60.0 mm, New Caledonia, Lifou (MNHN-B28463)
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Discoplax longipes - Sendler, 1923: 23, pl. 20, 1a-b (Makatea). - Forest & Guinot, 1962: 74 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Türkay, 1974: 239 (Makatea; 1 male SMF 4293, 1 male SMF 5849). - Guinot, 1985: 454 (List). - Poupin, 1996a: 66 (Checklist). - Ng & Shi, 2015, Zootaxa: 383, French Polynesia: 1 male (68.9 × 61.3 mm) (SMF 4293), 1 male (65.0 × 55.7 mm) (SMF 5849), Makatea, Tuamotu, Hanseatische Südsee Expedition, coll. E. Wolff, 16 July–20 July 1909
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database