The Homolidae of the Hawaiian Islands, with notes on the taxonomy of Moloha major (Kubo, 1936) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
Author
Forges, Bertrand Richer De
Author
Martin, Joel W.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-07-07
4809
2
306
328
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4809.2.4
1175-5326
3934146
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Latreillopsis okala
Castro & Naruse, 2014
Homola
(
Parhomola
)
majora
?—
Edmondson 1951: 202
, fig. 10.
?
Latreillopsis
aff.
cornuta
—
Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995: 414
.
?
Latreillopsis cornuta
—
Castro 2011: 35
(not
Latreillopsis cornuta
Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995
).
Latreillopsis okala
Castro & Naruse, 2014: 170
, figs. 1–3.
Material examined
.
Hawaiian Islands
:
Holotype
male (6.0 × 4.0 mm) (
USNM 1220315
), off
southwestern Maui
, dredged,
91 m
, coll.
M. Severns
&
S. Speer
, dredge,
26 October 2012
.
Remarks
.
Castro & Naruse (2014)
clarified the identity of the specimens that have been reported with doubt by various authors over the years as “
Latreillopsis cornuta
” (cf.
Edmondson, 1951
;
Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995
;
Castro 2011
), and recognised them as a distinct species,
L. okala
.