Pennant's Nut Crab

Ebalia tuberosa (Pennant, 1777)

Ebalia tuberosa.—Lebour, 1954:236—Monod, 1956:124, figs. 150, 151 [England, Algeria, Bonifacio, Ilhas Desertas, Canary Islands, Mauritania; references].—Zariquiey Alvarez, 1968:326, figs. 109d, 110a–c, 111a [Spain; references].—Christiansen, 1969:27, fig. 9, map 3 [Scandinavia].—Türkay, 1976a:25 [listed], 37, fig. 20 [Morocco]; 1976b:61 [listed], 63 [Madeira, Ilhas Desertas].

SYNONYMS.—Ebalia pennantii Leach, 1817; Ebalia insignis Lucas, 1849; ? Ebalia madeirensis Stimpson, 1858.

DISTRIBUTION.—Eastern Atlantic, from Norway and the Hebrides southward to Mauritania (?), including the Azores and the Canary Islands, Mediterranean; sublittoral to about 138 m (Zariquiey Alvarez, 1968; Christiansen, 1969).

Merocryptus A. Milne Edwards, 1873a:78 [type-species: Merocryptus lambriformis A. Milne Edwards, 1873, by monotypy; gender: masculine; name 166 on Official List].

Merocryptus obsoletus A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier, 1898

Merocryptus obsoletus.—Monod, 1956:132, figs. 161, 161 bis [Morocco; Senegal].—Guinot and Ribeiro, 1962:28, figs. 5a, b, pl. 1: figs. 1, 2, 4 [Cape Verde Islands, Senegal, Angola].

DISTRIBUTION.—Eastern Atlantic, from Morocco, the Cape Verde Islands, Senegal, and Angola, in depths between 75 and 132 m.

Leucosia Fabricius, 1798:313, 349 [an invalid junior homonym of Leucosia Weber, 1795 (Decapoda); type-species: Cancer nucleus Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Latreille, 1810:97, 422; gender: feminine; name 1732 on Official Index].

Ilia Leach, 1817:19, 24 [type-species: Cancer nucleus Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy; gender: feminine; name 1628 on Official List].

Thaumasta Gistel, 1848:ix [substitute name for Leucosia Fabricius, 1798; type-species: Cancer nucleus Linnaeus, 1758; gender: feminine].