Marine Species Traits - Lybia H. Milne Edwards, 1834

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Lybia H. Milne Edwards, 1834

Lybia tessellata

AphiaID

206564 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206564)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Grapse tessellata Latreille in Milbert, 1812 accepted as Lybia tessellata (Latreille in Milbert, 1812) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Polydectinae Dana, 1851

Original name

Lybia H. Milne Edwards, 1834

Synonymised names

Melia Berthold, 1827 · unaccepted (name pre-occupied by Melia Bosc,...)

name pre-occupied by Melia Bosc, 1813 [Crustacea]

Prolybia Ward, 1933 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Lybia australiensis (Ward, 1933)
Species Lybia caestifera (Alcock, 1898)
Species Lybia denticulata Nobili, 1906
Species Lybia edmondsoni Takeda & Miyake, 1970
Species Lybia leptochelis (Zehntner, 1894)
Species Lybia plumosa Barnard, 1947
Species Lybia pugil (Alcock, 1898)
Species Lybia tessellata (Latreille in Milbert, 1812)
Species Lybia hatagumoana Sakai, 1961 accepted as Tunebia hatagumoana (Sakai, 1961) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Lybia tutelina Tan & Ng, 1994 accepted as Tunebia tutelina (Tan & Ng, 1994) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Original description

Milne Edwards, H. (1834–1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, Comprenant l´Anatomie, la Physiologie et la Classification de ces Animaux, Vol I (1834): i–xxxv + 1–468, Vol. II (1837): 1–532, Vol. III (1840): 1–638; atlas: 1–32, pls. 1–42. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16170#/summary [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Lybia H. Milne Edwards, 1834. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206564 on 2025-09-19

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Lybia H. Milne Edwards, 1834. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206564 on 2025-09-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-06-07 07:51:36Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-13 07:19:12Z

changed

Garcia, Maria

2006-09-22 06:50:38Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2009-12-16 08:58:17Z

checked

Davie, Peter

2011-01-19 07:58:39Z

changed

Davie, Peter

2022-08-27 14:10:32Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Milne Edwards, H. (1834–1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, Comprenant l´Anatomie, la Physiologie et la Classification de ces Animaux, Vol I (1834): i–xxxv + 1–468, Vol. II (1837): 1–532, Vol. III (1840): 1–638; atlas: 1–32, pls. 1–42. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16170#/summary [details]

original description (of Melia Berthold, 1827) Berthold, A.A. (1827). Naturliche Familien des Thierreichs aus dem Franzosischen. Mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen. Landes-Industrie Comptoirs, Weimar, x + 606 pp. [details]

original description (of Prolybia Ward, 1933) Ward, M. (1933). New genera and species of marine Decapoda Brachyura from the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. Australian Zoologist. 7(5): 377-394, pls. 21-23. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Galil, B.S.; Vannini, M. (1990`). Research on the coast of Somalia. Xanthidae, Trapeziidae, Carpiliidae, Menippidae (Crustacea Brachyura). Tropical Zoology. 3(1): 21–56. [details] Available for editors

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

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lybia)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Melia) (from synonym Melia Berthold, 1827)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Lybia tessellata

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