The Indo-Pacific scyllarine lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae)
Author
Holthuis, Lipke B.
National Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden (The Netherlands).
text
Zoosystema
2002
24
3
499
683
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.4689240
1638-9387
4689240
Galearctus rapanus
(
Holthuis, 1993
)
n. comb.
Scyllarus rapanus
Holthuis, 1993: 179
, figs 1, 2. —
Poupin 1996a: 16
, pl. 7 fig. b; 1996b: 95, 96.
TYPE MATERIAL. —
Holotype
:
27 mm
. SMCB, stn 101 (MNHN-Pa 1394).
TYPE
LOCALITY. — Polynesia. Tubuai Archipelago. Rapa Id,
27°36’S
,
144°16’W
,
250-
300 m
.
REMARKS
The species was very recently described, and is only known from the
type
locality. I may refer to the original description.
Poupin (1996a)
published a coloured photograph of one of the
types
.