Decapoda - Brachyura - Gecarcinidae - Tuerkayana
| Tuerkayana rotundum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) |
World Distribution
(Davie, 2002: 185) - IWP, Mauritius, Australia, Ryukyu Is., Hawaii, Plus Wallis & Futuna, Glorieuses, New Caledonia - Not French Polynesia (Marquesas, Tuamotu, Gambier) where it is replaced by T. latens.
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).
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