Dorippoides facchino (Herbst, 1785)

Srivastava, O. P., 2017, Marine and estuarine crabs of Digha coast, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 49-72 : 53

2. Dorippoides facchino (Herbst, 1785)

1785. Cancer facchino Herbst, Versuch. Naturgesch. Krabben Krebse , 1 (2): 190, pl.11, Figure 68.

1896. Dorippe facchino Alcock, J.Asiat. Soc. Bengal , 65 (2):

278.

1969. Dorippe (Dorippoides) facchino Serène and Romimohtarto, Mar. Res. Indonesia. 9: 4, 8, figs. 2, 6, 11, 16 A-D, pls. 1C, 3D.

1981. Dorippoides facchino Manning and Holthuis, Smith Contrib. Zool. , 306: 30.

1990. Dorippoides facchino Holthuis and manning, Researches on Crustacea, Special No., 3: 49, figs.19-

25.

2005. Dorippoides facchino : Dev Roy and Bhadra S., Zool. Surv. India, State Fauna Series 5: Fauna of Andhra Pradesh (Pt 5): 374.

Material examined: 3exs., Digha Mohana, 16.iv.2014,

Coll. O. P. Srivastava (Reg.no.A-4303-4305); 6exs.,

Shankarpur, 20.v.2014, Coll. O. P. Srivastava (Reg.no.

A-4319, 4322 and 4323).

Diagnosis: Carapace broader than long, its anterolateral border finely granulated, all the regions are distinct.

Chelepeds heteromerus and the larger one is granulated whereas smaller one is carinated.

Distribution: India: Andaman Island, Andhra

Pradesh (Krishna, Nellore, Visakhapatnam), Karnataka

( Mangalore beach), Odisha (Devi river, Gopalpur coast),

Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Gulf of Mannar, Tranquebar) and

West Bengal (Digha, Shankarpur). Elsewhere: China,

Gulf of Oman, Indonesia, HongKong, Japan, Mergui

Archipelago, Malaysia, Persian Gulf, Singapore, Sri lanka,

Thailand and Vietnam.