Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815

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

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scientific name	Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815
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Family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 View in CoL

Genus Ocypode Weber, 1795

Ocypode gaudichaudii H. Milne Edwards & Lucas, 1843 View in CoL , a Tropical Eastern Pacific species, appears to have been erroneously recorded from the Hawaiian Is. by Cano (1879b), with Rathbun (1906: 834) pointing out that Cano’s record “needs verification.” (also see Edmondson, 1962b).

Edmondson (1949) suggested that one of four megalops he described from the Hawaiian Is., “ Megalops beta,” was “allied” to megalops originally described as Monolepis orientalis ( Dana 1852b: 492, pl. 31, fig. 5a–g) and M. inermis View in CoL ( Dana 1852b: 492, pl. 31, fig. 6), Monolepis View in CoL being a junior synonym of Ocypode View in CoL . Edmondson’s larvae have indeed been identified as possibly belonging to a species of Ocypode View in CoL (J.A. Cuesta, personal communication).

References

Dana, J. D. (1852 b) Crustacea, Part I. United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., vol. 13 (2), i - viii, 1 - 685; Atlas (1855), 1 - 27, pls. 1 - 96, C. Sherman, Philadelphia.

Edmondson, C. H. (1949) Some brachyuran megalopa. Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 19 (12), 233 - 246.

Edmondson, C. H. (1962 b) Hawaiian Crustacea: Goneplacidae, Pinnotheridae, Cymopoliidae, Ocypodidae, and Gecarcinidae. Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 23 (1), 1 - 27.

Rathbun, M. J. (1906) The Brachyura and Macrura of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23 (3) [1903], 827 - 930, pls. 1 - 24.