Decapoda - Brachyura - Gecarcinidae - Tuerkayana
| Tuerkayana rotundum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) |
World Distribution
(Davie, 2002: 185) - IWP, Mauritius, Australia, Ryukyu Is., Hawaii, French Polynesia (Marquesas, Tuamotu, Gambier). Plus Wallis & Futuna, Glorieuses, New Caledonia
Environnement : Land - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-0 m
Mayotte data
Discoplax rotunda (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) — Poupin et al., 2013c: 12, Glorieuses.
- Expedition Glorieuses December 2012 (new record), st. coconut grove at night — IWP, Mayotte, Mauritius to Japan, Guam, French Polynesia; supratidal and land. Records from Hawaii are probably from mislabelled specimens (cf. Castro, 2011).
New Caledonia data
Nouvelle Caledonie, 88058, 88066 — Ng P & Guinot D, The Raffes Bulletin of Zoology 49, 2: 311-338
Tuerkayana rotundum - Guinot et al., 2018 (Zoosystema): 551, syntype male 50.0 × 63.0 mm, Oceania, M. Guérin, Quoy & Gaimard det. Thelphusa rotunda, M. Türkay vid., vi.1972 and det. Cardisoma rotundum, dry, MNHN-IU-2000-3745 (= MNHN-B3745) (see N. K. Ng et al. In press: fig. 3B); 1 male 28.5 × 36.0 mm, Lifou Island, Easo Cave, 17 m depth, B. Richer de Forges coll. And det., 20.VIII.1993, MNHNIU-2017-8393 (= MNHN-B24813); 1 male 36.0 × 44.0 mm, New Caledonia, abundant in AQUACAL breeding tanks of Saint Vincent Bay, MNHN-IU-2017-8396 (= MNHNB17134); 1 male 28.0 × 26.3 mm, Lifou Island, on the ground, coll. B. Richer de Forges, 18.IV.1993, MNHN-IU-2017-8395 (= MNHN-B24809); 1 female 32.7 × 40.1 mm, Loyalty Islands, Caillot 1886, MNHN-IU-2017-11711 (= MNHN-B13141).
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
WALLIS & FUTUNA - Cardisoma rotunda - Poupin & Juncker, in preparation (Alofi). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Cardisoma rotundum - Türkay, 1974: 234, fig. 1, 14 ("Tickahau-Atoll" = Tikehau). - Poupin, 1994a: 54, fig. 50, pl. 6g (Nuku Hiva; coll. Frv Marara); 1996a: 66 (Checklist). - Discoplax rotunda - Ng & Guinot, 2001: 311 (n. comb. with detailed diagnosis of genus Discoplax). - Unpublished observation, J.-F. Butaud, Niau atoll, color photographs, Temoe atoll, near Gambier, photo 14 April 2010, det. J. Poupin based on photo.
Comment(s) on data
New genus Tuerkayana is from Guinot D., Ng N. K. & Rodríguez Moreno P. A. 2018. — Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea MacLeay, 1838). Zoosystema 40 (26): 547-604. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26. http://zoosystema.com/40/26
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database