Lissocarcinus orbicularis Dana, 1852

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 : 65

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scientific name	Lissocarcinus orbicularis Dana, 1852
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Lissocarcinus orbicularis Dana, 1852 View in CoL

Lissocarcinus orbicularis Dana, 1852a: 86 View in CoL [type locality: Insulas Vitienses (= Fiji); type material presumed lost].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Lissocarcinus orbicularis Dana, 1852 View in CoL — Rathbun 1906: 868 [O‘ahu, Hawai‘i]. — Edmondson 1923b: 1550 [H.I.]; 1925: 36 [O‘ahu]; 1946: 278 [H.I.]; 1954: 230, figs. 6b, 7a–c [H.I.]. — Tinker 1965: 92, pl. 34 [H.I.]. — Stephenson & Rees 1967: 7 [O‘ahu]. — Colin & Arneson 1995: 213, color photograph [Hawai‘i]. — Hoover 2006: 275, 327, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Crosnier (1962), Spiridonov (1999)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Internal and external symbiont of holothurians; shallow subtidal to 60 m.

References

Colin, P. L. & Arneson, C. (1995) Tropical Pacific Invertebrates. Coral Reef Press, Beverly Hills, California, viii + 296 pp.

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

Dana, J. D. (1852 a) On the Classification of the Crustacea Corystoidea; Scientific Intelligence, III. Zoology. American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2, 13 (37), 119 - 121. [also published as: Conspectus Crustaceorum, etc. Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes, U. S. N., including the Crustacea Cancroidea Corystoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 6 (3), 73 - 86]

Edmondson, C. H. (1923 b) A preliminary comparison between Hawaiian and Australian Crustacea. Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Australia 1923, 2, 1548 - 1553.

Hoover, J. P. (2006) Hawai'i's Sea Creatures. Revised edition. Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, xviii + 366 pp. [first edition 1999]

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.

Spiridonov, V. A. (1999) Swimming crabs of Ambon (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae), Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990), Part 8. Zoologische Mededelingen, 73 (4), 63 - 97.

Stephenson, W. & Rees, M. (1967) Some portunid crabs from the Pacific and Indian oceans in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 120 (3556), 1 - 114, pls. 1 - 9.

Tinker, S. W. (1965) Pacific Crustacea. An Illustrated Handbook on the Reef-Dwelling Crustacea of Hawaii and the South Seas. Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, VT & Tokyo, 134 pp.