Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858

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 : 43

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Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858 View in CoL

Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858a: 35 View in CoL [type locality: Hong Kong; type material presumed lost].

Hawaiian Is. record:

Menippe convexa Rathbun, 1894: 239 View in CoL [type locality: O‘ahu; holotype: USNM 13908 About USNM ].

Menippe convexa Rathbun, 1894 View in CoL — Rathbun 1906: 861, pl. 11, fig. 4 [holotype].

Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858 View in CoL — Edmondson 1962a: 282, fig. 25a [Rathbun’s record].

Remarks. Recorded once from the Hawaiian Is. ( Rathbun 1906, as Menippe convexa ) but no subsequent records are known from the archipelago. Fouling species ( Yeo et al. 2011) that could have been introduced.

Taxonomy. Edmondson (1962a), Crosnier (1984b)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region; introduced to the Mediterranean Sea ( Brockerhoff & McLay 2011) and New Zealand ( Ahyong & Wilkens 2011).

Habitat. Shallow subtidal to 35 m.

References

Ahyong, S. T. & Wilkens, S. L. (2011) Aliens in the Antipodes: non-indigenous marine crustaceans of New Zealand and Australia. In: Galil, B. S., Clark, P. F. & Carlton, J. T. (Eds.), In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution (Biology and Impacts, Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology, vol. 6). Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht, pp. 451 - 485.

Brockerhoff, A. & McLay, C. (2011) Human-mediated spread of alien crabs. In: Galil, B. S., Clark, P. F. & Carlton, J. T. (Eds.), In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution (Biology and Impacts, Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology, vol. 6). Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht, pp. 27 - 106. Brock, V. E., Jones, R. S. & Helfrich, P. (1965) An ecological reconnaissance of Johnston Island and the effects of dredging. HIMB Technical Report, 5, i - iv + 1 - 90. [mimeograph]

Crosnier, A. (1984 b) Addendum: Carpillidae et Menippidae par A. Crosnier. In: Crustaces decapodes brachyoures de l'Ocean Indien Occidental et de la Mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Faune Tropicale (ORSTOM), 24, 1 - 400, pls. 1 - 48.

Edmondson, C. H. (1962 a) Xanthidae of Hawaii. Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 22 (13), 215 - 309.

Rathbun, M. J. (1894) Descriptions of new genera and species of crabs from the west coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands. Scientific Results of Explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, no. XXIV. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 16 (933) [1893], 223 - 260.

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.

Stimpson, W. (1858 a) Crustacea Cancroidea et Corystoidea. Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson, Pars IV. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 10, 31 - 40 (29 - 37). [reprinted in Vasile et al. 2005: 131 - 139]

Yeo, D. C. J., Carlton, J. T., Teo, S. L. M. & Ng P. K. L. (2011) An incoming flood on a cryptic stage: understanding alien crustacean invasions in Southeast Asia. In: Galil, B. S., Clark, P. F. & Carlton, J. T. (Eds.), In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution (Biology and Impacts, Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology, vol. 6). Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht, pp. 403 - 417.