Grapsus pharaonis H. Milne Edwards, 1853

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Grapsus pharaonis H. Milne Edwards, 1853: 134 [168].

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Junior subjective synonym of Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Herbst, 1783) (see Banerjee 1960: 134).

LECTOTYPE (by present designation). — MNHN-IU-2000-3439 (= MNHN-B3439), ♂ 55.0 × 57.4 mm, Red Sea, coll. M. Roux. — Original label: “ Grapsus pharaonis Edw., Mer Rouge, M. Roux ”.

PRESERVATION OF THE LECTOTYPE. — Dry.

PARALECTOTYPES. — MNHN-IU-2000-3438 (= MNHN-B3438), 2♀ 58.3 × 59.5 mm, 60.2 × 60.9 mm, same data as lectotype .

PRESERVATION OF THE PARALECTOTYPES. — Dry.

REMARKS

“M. Roux” on the label is J. L. F. P. Roux who collected material in the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and in the Near East (Bauchot et al. 1990; Appendix) and published the volume Crustacés de la Méditerranée et de son littoral, décrits et lithographiés (Roux 1828 -1830). Grapsus pharaonis was synonimised with Grapsus grapsus (Linnaeus, 1758) by A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (1900: 111) and, subsequently, with Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Herbst, 1783) by Banerjee (1960), see Ng et al. 2008: 217. In the CAA, material collected by Roux in the Red Sea has 1835 as entry date.