Marine Species Traits - Tetralia Dana, 1851

WoRMS taxon details

Tetralia Dana, 1851

AphiaID

205562 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205562)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Cancer glaberrimus Herbst, 1790 accepted as Tetralia glaberrima (Herbst, 1790) (type by monotypy)

Type taxon of

Tetraliidae Castro, Ng & Ahyong, 2004

Parent

Tetraliidae Castro, Ng & Ahyong, 2004

Original name

Tetralia Dana, 1851

Direct children (19)

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Species Tetralia aurantistellata Trautwein, 2007
Species Tetralia brengelae Trautwein, 2007
Species Tetralia brunalineata Trautwein, 2007
Species Tetralia cavimana Heller, 1860
Species Tetralia cinctipes Paulson, 1875
Species Tetralia glaberrima (Herbst, 1790)
Species Tetralia muta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Tetralia nigrolineata Serène & Pham, 1957
Species Tetralia ocucaerulea Trautwein, 2007
Species Tetralia rubridactyla Garth, 1971
Species Tetralia armata Dana, 1852 accepted as Tetralia muta (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Tetralia fulva Serène, 1984 accepted as Tetralia glaberrima (Herbst, 1790) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Tetralia heterodactyla Heller, 1860 accepted as Tetraloides heterodactylus (Heller, 1860) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Tetralia innamorata Galil & Clark, 1988 accepted as Tetralia rubridactyla Garth, 1971 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Tetralia laevissima Stimpson, 1858 accepted as Tetralia glaberrima (Herbst, 1790) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Tetralia nigrifrons Dana, 1852 accepted as Tetraloides nigrifrons (Dana, 1852) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Tetralia pubescens Klunzinger, 1913 accepted as Tetraloides heterodactylus (Heller, 1860) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Tetralia sanguineomaculata Galil & Clark, 1990 accepted as Tetralia glaberrima (Herbst, 1790) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Tetralia vanninii Galil & Clark, 1988 accepted as Tetralia muta (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Dana, J. D. (1851). Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Faederatae duce, lexit et descripsit. Pars VI. [A survey of the crustaceans which took place in the circumnavigation of the world, under the command of Charles Wilkes of the United States Navy, he read and described. Part 6]. The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series. 11(32): 268–274. [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Tetralia Dana, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205562 on 2025-04-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-09-11 16:01:23Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

1997-12-30 13:34:44Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-29 11:38:53Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2009-12-16 08:58:17Z

checked

Davie, Peter

2020-07-25 23:12:26Z

changed

Ahyong, Shane

2022-05-10 19:57:26Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2022-07-18 03:12:53Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description Dana, J. D. (1851). Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Faederatae duce, lexit et descripsit. Pars VI. [A survey of the crustaceans which took place in the circumnavigation of the world, under the command of Charles Wilkes of the United States Navy, he read and described. Part 6]. The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series. 11(32): 268–274. [details]

basis of record Serène, R. (1984). Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures de l'Ocean Indien et de la Mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Editions Orstom. Collection Faune Tropicale. 24: 1-243. [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Present

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	ヒメサンゴガニ属	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tetralia)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Tetralia sp)

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Tetralia sp)

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