A new species and new records of palicoid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Palicoidea, Palicidae, Crossotonotidae) from the Indo-West Pacific region
Author
Castro, Peter
California State Polytechnic University, Biological Sciences Department, Pomona, California 91768 (USA) pcastro @ csupomona. edu
text
Zoosystema
2010
2010-03-31
32
1
73
86
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5252/z2010n1a3
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Pseudopalicus oahuensis
(
Rathbun, 1906
)
Palicus oahuensis
Rathbun, 1906: 836
, fig. 2, pl. 7, fig. 4.
Pseudopalicus oahuensis
–
Castro 2000: 465
, 587, 588, figs 4e-f, 12a, 54, 60c.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
Tonga
.
BORDAU 2, stn CP 1510,
21°05’S
,
175°23’W
,
461-497 m
,
31.V.2000
, 1 pre-adult
♀
(photographed) (
MNHN-B31954
)
;
1 ♀
(
MNHN-B31955
)
;
2 ♂♂, 1 pre-adult
♀
, 2 ovig.
♀♀
(
MNHN-B31956
)
.
DISTRIBUTION. — Across the Pacific Ocean from
Taiwan
to
New Caledonia
, Hawaiian Is (
type
locality),
French Polynesia
(
Castro 2000
: table 6, fig. 54), and now
Tonga
. Depth:
200-680 m
(
Castro 2000
: table 5).