Matuta planipes (Fabricius, 1798)

Srivastava, O. P., 2017, Marine and estuarine crabs of Digha coast, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 49-72 : 54

6. Matuta planipes (Fabricius, 1798)

1798. Matuta planipes Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. : 369.

1957a. Marilla planipes Chhapgar, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc., 54 (2): 406 pI. 2, figs. d-f.

1976. Matuta planipes Sakai, Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas: 141. PI. 44, Figure 2.

1991. Mattila planipe: Dev Roy and Nandi. J. Indian Soc. Coastal agric. Res., 9(1/2): 72.

1994. Matuta planipes : Galil and Clark, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 294: 35, pI. 12a-b, figs. 6c-d.

2005. Matuta planipes : Dev Roy and Bhadra S, Zool.Surv. India, State Fauna Series 5: Fauna of Andhra Pradesh (Pt 5): 384.

Material examined: 2exs., Junput, 14.xi.2014, Coll: O.P.S (Reg. no. A-4339).

Diagnosis: Carapace with reddish dots forms smaller circles on the anterior half and narrow loops on the posterior half of the carapace. Front having straight horizontal lobes laterally placed and marginally notched rostrum medially.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh (Nellore), Maharashtra ( Mumbai, Bassein, Deogad coast), Odisha (Chilka Lake, Gopalpur coast, Mahanadi Delta), Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Parangipettai coast) and West Bengal (Digha, Junput, Mouth of River Hugli, Sundarbans). Elsewhere: Australia, China, Japan, Java, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand.