Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947 Author Castro, Peter text Zootaxa 2011 2011-07-08 2947 1 1 154 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2947.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.2947.1.1 1175­5334 5283044 Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858 Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858a: 35 [ type locality: Hong Kong ; type material presumed lost]. Hawaiian Is. record: Menippe convexa Rathbun, 1894: 239 [type locality: O‘ahu; holotype : USNM 13908 ]. Menippe convexa Rathbun, 1894 — Rathbun 1906: 861 , pl. 11, fig. 4 [ holotype ]. Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858 — Edmondson 1962a: 282 , fig. 25a [Rathbun’s record]. Remarks. Recorded once from the Hawaiian Is. ( Rathbun 1906 , as Menippe convexa ) but no subsequent records are known from the archipelago. Fouling species ( Yeo et al . 2011 ) that could have been introduced. Taxonomy. Edmondson (1962a) , Crosnier (1984b) Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region; introduced to the Mediterranean Sea ( Brockerhoff & McLay 2011 ) and New Zealand ( Ahyong & Wilkens 2011 ). Habitat. Shallow subtidal to 35 m .