Micippa philyra (Herbst, 1803)

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 : 54

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scientific name	Micippa philyra (Herbst, 1803)
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Micippa philyra (Herbst, 1803) View in CoL

Cancer philyra Herbst, 1803: 51 , pl. 58, fig. 4 [color] [type locality: Ostindien; holotype: ZMB Herbst 0077]. Hawaiian Is. record:

Micippa philyra (Herbst, 1803) View in CoL — Rathbun 1906: 882 [O‘ahu]. — Edmondson 1923b: 1551 [Rathbun’s record].

Remarks. Recorded once from the Hawaiian Is. ( Rathbun 1906) but no subsequent records are known from the archipelago.

Taxonomy. Griffin & Tranter (1986), Komatsu (2011)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Subtidal, 2–90 m.

SUPERFAMILY PALICOIDEA Bouvier, 1898 Family Crossotonotidae A. Milne-Edwards, 1873

Genus Crossotonotus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873

References

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.

Griffin, D. J. G. & Tranter, H. A. (1986) Majidae. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition, Part 8. Siboga-Expeditie, 39 (c 4), livraison 148, 1 - 335.

Komatsu, H. (2011) Crabs dredged off the Ogasawara Islands (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo), 47, 219 - 277.

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.