Chlorodiella laevissima (Dana, 1852), 1982

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 : 89

Chlorodiella laevissima (Dana, 1852)

Chlorodius laevissimus Dana, 1852a: 80 , insulas Hawaienses; type material presumed lost].

Additional Hawaiian Is. records:

Chlorodius laevissimus Dana, 1852 — Dana 1852b: 215, pl. 12, fig. 4 [“Sandwich Is.”].

Chlorodiella laevissima (Dana, 1852) — Rathbun 1906: 857 [Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Penguin Bank east of Moloka‘i, Moloka‘i, Au‘au Channel east of Lāna‘i, Hawai‘i, Laysan, “Modu Manu” (=Moku Manu, or Nihoa)]. — Edmondson 1946: 296 [H.I.]; 1962a: 281, fig. 23e [H.I.]. — Titgen 1987: 107, 108, fig. 1e–h [O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Maui, Laysan]. — Coles et al. 1998: 15, 25 [Kaho‘olawe]; 2001: 52 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 2002a: 269, 333 [O‘ahu]. — DeFelice et al. 1998: 16 [Midway Is.]; 2002: 30, 72 [French Frigate Shoals]. — Coles, Reath, Longenecker, Bolick & Eldredge 2004: 143 [Maui, Hawai‘i]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 39, 49 [Moloka‘i]. — Coles et al. 2008: 62, 69 [O‘ahu, Moloka‘i]. — Coles & Swenson 2010: 87 [O‘ahu, Moloka‘i].

Chlorodiella niger ( Forskål, 1775) — Edmondson 1925: 44 (part) [N.W.I.]. (not Cancer niger Forskål, 1775 )

Taxonomy. Serène (1984), Titgen (1987)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Intertidal, shallow subtidal to at least 124 m.