Trapezia intermedia Miers, 1886

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 : 81-82

Trapezia intermedia Miers, 1886

Trapezia rufopunctata var. intermedia Miers, 1886: 168 , pl. 12, fig. 2 [type locality: O‘ahu; holotype: NHM 84.31 ].

Additional Hawaiian Is. records:

Trapezia maculata ( MacLeay, 1838) — Streets 1877: 106 [H.I.]. [not Grapsillus maculatus Macleay, 1838 = T. rufopunctata (Herbst, 1799) ]

Trapezia ferruginea var. intermedia Miers, 1886 — Alcock 1898: 220 [O‘ahu].

Grapsillus ferrugineus intermedius Miers, 1886 — Rathbun 1906: 865 [O‘ahu, Penguin Bank east of Moloka‘i, Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals, “Modu Manu” (=Moku Manu, or Nihoa)].

Trapezia cymodoce intermedia Miers, 1886 — Edmondson 1923b: 1552 [Kure Atoll]; 1925: 41 [Kure Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 301, fig. 180 e [H.I.]; 1962a: 298, fig. 31a [H.I.].

Trapezia intermedia Miers, 1886 — Pesta 1933: 280 [H.I.]. — Barry 1965: 23 [O‘ahu]. — Preston 1973: 470, fig. 1–1 [H.I.]. — Castro 1978a: 244 [O‘ahu]; 1998: 74 (part) [H.I., Kure Atoll, Midway Is., Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lisianski, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals]. — Odinetz 1984: 445 [holotype]. — Serène 1984: 275, pl. 39, fig. F [H.I.]. — Huber 1985b: 24 [O‘ahu]; 1985c: 21 [O‘ahu]; 1987a: 239 [O‘ahu]. — Coles 1986: 309, 311 [H.I.]. — Huber & Coles 1986: 23 [O‘ahu]. — Titgen 1987: 109 [O‘ahu]. — Coles et al. 1997: C–80 [O‘ahu]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 160 [O‘ahu]; 2002a: 269, 333 [O‘ahu]. — Coles, Eldredge, Kandel, Reath & Longenecker 2004: 65 [Maui, Hawai‘i]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 39, 49 [Moloka‘i]. — Hoover 2006: 284, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Trapezia neglecta Castro, 2003: 446 , figs. 2–4 [type locality: Guam, also from Johnston Atoll; holotype: SMF 26290].

Remarks. Molecular characterization (C.S. McKeon, personal communication) and examination of additional fresh material and color photographs has confirmed that T. neglecta Castro, 2003 , described from the western Pacific Ocean and Johnston Atoll, is a junior synonym of T. intermedia Miers, 1886 .

Taxonomy. Serène (1984), Galil & Lewinsohn (1985), Castro (1998, 2003), Castro et al. (2004)

Geographical distribution. Western Pacific Ocean, Hawaiian Is., Johnston Atoll.

Habitat. Symbiont of scleractinian reef corals ( Pocillopora and other pocilloporids); shallow subtidal to 55 m.