Ocypode pallidula Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846

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Ocypode pallidula Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846

Ocypode pallidula Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846 : pl. 6, fig. 1 [type locality: Tuamotu Archipelago ( French Polynesia); lectotype: MNHN-B4027 S, paralectotypes: MNHN-B4027 S, 3307 S].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Ocypode rhombea Weber, 1795 — Randall 1840: 123 [“Sandwich Is.”]. (not Ocypode rhombea Weber, 1795 (nomen nudum) = Cancer quadratus Fabricius, 1787 )

Ocypoda laevis Dana, 1852b: 235, 1577 [as “ O. levis ”], pl. 20, fig. 2 [type locality: “Sandwich Is.;” possible type material UZMC (see Manning & Reed (2006)].

Ocypoda urvillei Guèrin, 1829 — Lenz 1902: 476 [Laysan]. (not Ocypode urvillei Guérin, 1829 = Cancer ceratophthalmus Pallas, 1772 )

Ocypode laevis Dana, 1852 — Stimpson 1858b: 100 [Hawai‘i].

Ocypode cordimana Latreille, 1818 — Kingsley 1880a: 185 [“Sandwich Is.”]. — Lenz 1901: 476 [Laysan]. (not Ocypode cordimanus Latreille, 1818 )

Ocypode laevis Dana, 1852 — Stimpson 1858b: 100 [Hawai‘i]; 1907: 110 [Hawai‘i]. — Rathbun 1906: 834, pl. 7, fig. 2 [O‘ahu, Maui, Hawai‘i, Laysan]. — Galstoff 1933: 17 [Pearl and Hermes Reef]. — Edmondson 1946: 311 [H.I.]; 1962b: 16, figs. 6b, c, 7b [O‘ahu, Laysan, Johnston Atoll]. — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 76 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 369 [H.I.]. — Coles et al. 1997: C–75 [O‘ahu].

Ocypode pallidula Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846 — K. Sakai & Türkay 1976: 87, figs. 14, 15 [O‘ahu, Maui, Midway Is., Laysan, Johnston Atoll]. — Hoover 2006: 288, color photograph [Kaua‘i].

Taxonomy. K. Sakai & Türkay (1976), Ng et al. (2008)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region; introduced to New Zealand ( Ahyong & Wilkens

2011).

Habitat. Burrows in sandy shores supratidal.