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Oceania

Applicable Field Guides
Eastern Australia; Eastern Micronesia; Fiji and Polynesia; New Guinea; Northern and Western Australia; Western Micronesia
Included Within
Indo-West Pacific Oceans
Note
Region comprising Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia
Approximate Coordinates
23.999905°S, 164.736859°E
A purple fiddler crab (local) or a blue fiddler crab surrounded by a dashed circle (regional) indicates the coordinates used to represent this location; yellow fiddler crabs indicate all sublocations contained within this location; a skull and crossbones indicates fossil-only locations or sub-locations; and red circles with an x indicate false or mistaken locations.

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Currently Recognized Species

Names Which Have Been Used for This Area

Specific Names Which Have Been Used for This Area

References

Aikawa (1942), Alcock (1900), Alongi & Sasekumar (1992), Altevogt & Davis (1979), Aprilyanto et al. (2017), Backwell & Jennions (2004), Balss (1922), Balss (1935), Balss (1938), Barnard (1950), Barnwell (1982), Barnwell (1984), Barnwell (2002), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bennett (1964), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Booksmythe et al. (2010), Boone (1934), Borradaile (1900), Bott (1973), Bouchard (2009), Bywater et al. (2009), Bywater et al. (2011), Bywater et al. (2012), Bywater et al. (2014), Bywater & Wilson (2010), Bywater & Wilson (2010), Cano (1889), Carlisle & Knowles (1959), Castro (2011), Chace (1942), Chertoprud et al. (2012), Chhapgar (1957), Chilton & Bennett (1929), Clark & Presswell (2001), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Crosnier (1965), Dakin (1952), Dana (1851), Dana (1852), Davie (1982), De Man (1887), De Man (1887-1888), De Man (1891), De Man (1895), De Man (1902), Deb (1998), Deb (1999), Dérijard (1966), Dev Roy & Bhadra (2001), Dev Roy & Bhadra (2005), Dev Roy & Bhadra (2011), Diele et al. (2013), Doflein (1899), Doflein (1904), Dye & Lasiak (1986), Dye & Lasiak (1987), Edmondson (1923), Edmondson (1925), Edmondson (1933), Edmondson (1946), Edmondson (1962), Enami (1943), Estampador (1937), Estampador (1959), Fayed et al. (2008), Filhol (1885), Filhol (1885), Fingerman (1959), Forest & Guinot (1961), Fransen et al. (1997), Frith & Frith (1977), Frith & Frith (1978), Frith et al. (1976), Fukui et al. (1989), George & Jones (1982), Gibbs (1978), Gordon (1934), Grant & McCulloch (1906), Guérin-Méneville (1829), Guérin-Méneville (1830), Guinot (1985), Hartnoll (1975), Hartnoll (1988), Hartnoll (1988), Haswell (1882), Heller (1865), Henderson (1893), Herklots (1861), Hess (1865), Hilgendorf (1869), Ho et al. (1993), Hoffmann (1874), Hogue & Bright (1971), Holthuis (1953), Holthuis (1967), Huang & Shih (2021), Ives (1891), Jaroensutasinee & Jaroensutasinee (2004), Jones & George (1982), Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003), Juncker & Poupin (2009), Kawaida et al. (2017), Kinghorn (1924), Kingsley (1880), Kinnear et al. (2009), Kirk (1880), Kossmann (1877), Krishnan (1992), Kumar (2019), Lagare et al. (2020), Lanchester (1900), Lanchester (1902), Lenz (1905), Lenz (1910), Lewinsohn (1977), Lichtwardt & Williams (1990), Lin (1949), Maccagno (1928), MacKenzie et al. (2020), Macnae (1966), Macnae (1967), Macnae (1968), Maitland (1990), Mariappan et al. (2000), McNeill (1920), McNeill (1962), McNeill (1968), Miers (1880), Miers (1884), Miers (1884), Miers (1886), Milne Edwards (1837), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Milne-Edwards (1873), Milner et al. (2010), Milner et al. (2010), Mitra et al. (2010), Miyake (1938), Miyake (1939), Miyake (1963), Morgan (1990), Morrison (1954), Mulstay (1987), Munguia et al. (2017), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Musgrave (1929), Naderloo (2017), Naderloo et al. (2016), Naderloo et al. (2010), Nemec (1939), Neumann (1878), Ng & Davie (2002), Ng et al. (2008), Ng & Richer de Forges (2007), Ng et al. (2017), Nobbs (2003), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1903), Nobili (1903), Nobili (1906), Nobili (1906), Nobili (1907), Ohno et al. (2006), Onadeko et al. (2015), Ortmann (1894), Ortmann (1894), Ortmann (1897), Otani et al. (2023), Owen (1839), Oyenekan (1995), Parisi (1918), Paul'son (1875), Peer et al. (2015), Peer et al. (2014), Pesta (1911), Pesta (1913), Pesta (1918), Pfeffer (1889), Poupin (1994), Poupin (1996), Poupin (2010), Poupin & Juncker (2008), Poupin & Juncker (2010), Pratiwi (2007), Pratiwi (2010), Pülmanns et al. (2016), Rao & Rath (2014), Rath & Dev Roy (2008), Rathbun (1906), Rathbun (1907), Rathbun (1910), Rathbun (1913), Rathbun (1914), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1921), Rathbun (1924), Rathbun (1926), Reaney et al. (2008), Ribeiro et al. (2003), Richters (1880), Rodgers & Cantrell (1988), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2013), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Roux (1917), Rupp (2012), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2014), Rupp (2015), Sakai (1936), Sakai (1939), Salmon & Zucker (1988), Saville-Kent (1897), Schnee & Doflein (1904), Schöne (1961), Sendler (1923), Serène (1973), Serène (1973), Seurat (1934), Shaw & Connell (1983), Shen (1932), Shen (1940), Shen (1940), Shih et al. (2018), Shih et al. (2023), Shih et al. (2013), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2019), Shih & Poupin (2020), Shih et al. (2022), Simonson (1985), Slatyer et al. (2008), Snelling (1959), Stebbing (1905), Stebbing (1921), Stella (1953), Stephensen (1946), Stephenson et al. (1931), Stimpson (1858), Stimpson (1907), Takeda & Miyake (1976), Tan et al. (2018), Tenison-Woods (1881), Tesch (1918), Thallwitz (1891), Thompson (1901), Thurman et al. (2025), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2018), Ting et al. (2020), Torres et al. (2008), Trave & Sheaves (2014), Tweedie (1937), Tweedie (1950), Tweedie (1950), Vannini & Valmori (1981), Vatova (1943), Veitch (1978), Vermeiren et al. (2015), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1976), von Martens (1868), von Martens (1869), Wada (2020), Wang et al. (2020), Ward (1928), Ward (1939), Weis (2019), Weis & Weis (2004), Weis & Weis (2013), White (1847), White et al. (2000), Whitelegge (1898), Williams & Heng (1981), Williams et al. (1980), Yamaguchi (1971), Yamaguchi & Takeda (1973), Yang et al. (2019), Yoshigou (2001), Zehntner (1894), Zeil et al. (2006)

Entries marked with represent indirect references to location through citation.