WoRMS taxon details
Prismatopus Ward, 1933
439475 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:439475)
accepted
Genus
Prismatopus albanyensis Ward, 1933 (type by monotypy)
Thacanophrys Griffin & Tranter, 1986 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Prismatopus acanthonotus (Adams & White in White, 1847)
- Species Prismatopus aculeatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)
- Species Prismatopus albanyensis Ward, 1933
- Species Prismatopus brevispinosus (Yokoya, 1933)
- Species Prismatopus filholi (A. Milne-Edwards, 1876)
- Species Prismatopus goldsboroughi (Rathbun, 1906)
- Species Prismatopus halimoides (Miers, 1879)
- Species Prismatopus harmandi (Bouvier, 1906)
- Species Prismatopus longispinus (De Haan, 1839)
- Species Prismatopus occidentalis (Griffin, 1970)
- Species Prismatopus peterngi Takeda, Ahyong, Ohtsuchi & Komatsu, 2022
- Species Prismatopus spatulifer (Haswell, 1881)
- Species Prismatopus tosaensis (Sakai, 1969)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
DecaNet eds. (2026). DecaNet. Prismatopus Ward, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=439475 on 2026-09-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Ward, M. (1933). New genera and species of marine Decapoda Brachyura from the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> 7(5): 377-394, pls. 21-23. [details] Available for editors 
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original description (of Thacanophrys Griffin & Tranter, 1986) Griffin, D.J.G., Tranter, H.A. (1986). The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. Part VIII. Majidae. <em>Siboga-Expeditie Monografie.</em> 39c4: [i–vii], 1–335., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004626461_010 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Thacanophrys Griffin & Tranter, 1986) Griffin, D.J.G., Tranter, H.A. (1986). The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. Part VIII. Majidae. <em>Siboga-Expeditie Monografie.</em> 39c4: [i–vii], 1–335., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004626461_010 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | カイメンガニ属 | [details] |
