Portunus (Xiphonectes) macrophthalmus Rathbun, 1906

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 : 71

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Portunus (Xiphonectes) macrophthalmus Rathbun, 1906 View in CoL

Portunus (Xiphonectes) macrophthalmus Rathbun, 1906: 871 View in CoL , fig. 31, pl. 12, fig. 5 [type locality: “Modu Manu” (=Moku Manu, or Nihoa), also from Kaua‘i, Moloka‘i; holotype: USNM 29688 About USNM ].

Additional Hawaiian Is. records:

Portunus (Xiphonectes) macrophthalmus Rathbun, 1906 View in CoL — Edmondson 1946: 280 [H.I.]; 1951: 222 [O‘ahu]; 1952: 242, figs. 18d–f, 19b [O‘ahu].

Portunus macrophthalmus Rathbun, 1906 View in CoL — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 2002b: 134 [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Crosnier (1962)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Shallow subtidal to bathyal, 2–659 m.

(*) Portunus (Xiphonectes) tuberculosus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861)

Neptunus tuberculosus A. Milne-Edwards, 1861: 333 View in CoL , pl. 31, fig. 5 [as “ N. rugosus View in CoL ”] [type locality: Iles “Sandwich;” holotype: MNHN-B6073 ].

Remarks. Described from the Hawaiian Is., possibly in error. No subsequent records are known from the archipelago.

Taxonomy. Crosnier (1962), Apel & Spiridonov (1998)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Subtidal, 20–115 m.

Apel, M. & Spiridonov, V. A. (1998) Taxonomy and zoogeography of the portunid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) of the Arabian Gulf and adjacent waters. Fauna of Arabia, 17, 159 - 331.

Coles, S. L., DeFelice, R. C. & Eldredge, L. G. (2002 b) Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawai'i Kai, O'ahu, Hawai'i. Final Report prepared for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the State of Hawai`i Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources. Bishop Museum Technical Report, 25, i - vi, 1 - 245.

Crosnier, A. (1962) Crustaces Decapodes, Portunidae. Faune de Madagascar, 16, 1 - 154, pls. 1 - 13.

Edmondson, C. H. (1946) Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii. Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Special Publication, 22, 1 - 381 [revised 1933 edition].

Milne-Edwards, A. (1861) Etudes zoologiques sur les crustaces recentes de la famille des portuniens. Archives du Museum d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), 10, 309 - 428 + 2 pp., pls. 28 - 38.

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.