Ocypode ceratophthalmus ( Pallas, 1772 )

Castro, Peter, 2011, Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947, Zootaxa 2947 (1), pp. 1-154 : 123

Ocypode ceratophthalmus ( Pallas, 1772)

Cancer ceratophthalmus Pallas, 1772: 83 , pl. 5, figs. 7, 8 [type locality: [species indica]; type material: status and location unknown].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Ocypode urvillii [sic] Guèrin, 1829 — Dana 1852b: 328, 1577, pl. 20, fig. 5 [“Sandwich Is.”].

Ocypode ceratophthalma ( Pallas, 1772) — Stimpson 1858b: 100 [Hawai‘i]; 1907: 108, pl. 12, fig. 2 [H.I.]. — Miers 1886: 238 [Hawai‘i]. — Rathbun 1906: 833 [Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui, Lāna‘i, Hawai‘i]. — Edmondson 1923b: 1549 [H.I., N.W.I.]; 1925: 59 [Kure Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals, Nihoa, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 310, fig. 185 b [H.I.]; 1962b: 15, figs. 6a, 7a [H.I.]. — Tinker 1965: 120, pl. 48 [H.I.].

Ocypode ceratophthalmus ( Pallas, 1772) — Edmondson 1923b: 1552 [Kure Atoll]. — Haley 1973: 351 [O‘ahu]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 369, fig. 3 D [H.I.].

Ocypode ceratophthalmia [sic] ( Pallas, 1772) — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 39, 49 [Moloka‘i].

Taxonomy. Edmondson (1962b)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Burrows in sandy shores supratidal.