The Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Hong Kong: a Historical Review and Catalogue Author Wong, Kingsley J. H. Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. E-mail: d 09 b 44003 @ ntu. edu. tw (Wong) & Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan. * Correspondence: E-mail: chankk @ gate. sinica. edu. tw (Chan) d09b44003@ntu.edu.tw Author Ng, Peter K. L. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117377, Republic of Singapore. E-mail: peterng @ nus. edu. sg (Ng) peterng@nus.edu.sg Author Shih, Hsi-Te Department of Life Science and Global Change Biology Research Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan. Author Chan, Benny K. K. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan. * Correspondence: E-mail: chankk @ gate. sinica. edu. tw (Chan) chankk@gate.sinica.edu.tw text Zoological Studies 2024 2024-12-31 63 38 1 155 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14702265 journal article 10.6620/ZS.2024.63-38 1810-522X PMC12439030 40964421 14702433 Superfamily Goneplacoidea Macleay, 1838 Family Euryplacidae Stimpson, 1871 Eucrate alcocki Serène , in Serène & Lohavanijaya, 1973 # ? Eucrate crenata var. dentata — Alcock 1900b: 301 [not Heteroplax dentatus Stimpson, 1858 ]. Eucrate alcocki — Shin and Thompson 1982 : app.; Morton and Morton 1983: 98 ; Shin 1989 : app. 1; Ong Che and Morton 1991 : tab. 1; Blackmore and Rainbow 2000 : app. 1; SY Lee et al. 2000 : tab. 3; Castro and Ng 2010: 18 , figs. 2C, 4A–C, 14A–C; Wong et al. 2021: 12 , fig. 15, pl. 3C. Taxonomy : Serène and Lohavanijaya (1973) , Castro and Ng (2010) . Type : Holotype ò MNHN-B10134 and paratype ñ in MNHN ( Castro and Ng 2010 ). Type locality : Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam . Distribution : South China Sea and East Asia : Singapore , eastern Peninsular Malaysia , Gulf of Thailand , Vietnam , the Philippines and South and East China Seas ( Castro and Ng 2010 ). Habitat : Subtidal; substrates muddy-sandy; to depths of 50 m ( Dai and Yang 1991 ). Eucrate crenata (De Haan, 1835) # Pilumnoplax sulcatifrons Stimpson, 1858b: 93 ; Stimpson 1907: 90 . Eucrate crenata — Alcock 1900b: 300 ; Gordon 1931: 528 ; Shen 1940a: 229 ; Shin and Thompson 1982 : app.; Thompson and Horikoshi 1982 : tab. 1; Thompson et al. 1982: tab. 1; Thompson and Shin 1983 : tab. 4; Shin 1990 : tab. 2; Ong Che and Morton 1991 : tab. 1; Davie 1992b : tab. 1; SY Lee and Leung 1999: 78 ; Blackmore and Rainbow 2000 : app. 1; SY Lee et al. 2000 : tab. 3; Castro and Ng 2010: 21 , figs. 2A, B, 3A–G, 14D–F; Wong et al. 2021: 12 , fig. 16, pl. 3D, E. Heteroplax sulcatifrons — Gee 1926: 163 [list]. Eucrate sulcatifrons — Gordon 1931: 528 ; Shen 1940a: 230 ; Davie 1992b : tab. 1. Taxonomy : Castro and Ng (2010) . Ty p e : L e c t o t y p e ò R M N H D 2 8 7 a n d paralectotypes in RMNH (designated by Yamaguchi and Baba (1993); see also Fransen et al. (1997)) . Type locality : Japan , locality unspecified. Distribution : Western Indian Ocean to South China Sea and East Asia : questionably Madagascar , Seychelles and northern Australia , verified from the Red Sea, Persian/Arabian Gulf, Arabian Sea, India , Southeast and East Asia ( Castro and Ng 2010 ). Habitat : Subtidal; to depths of 36 m ( Castro and Ng 2010 ).