Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804)

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 : 25

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Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804) View in CoL

Cancer megistos Herbst, 1804: 23 , pl. 61, fig. 1 (color) [type locality: Ostindien; holotype: ZMB Herbst 2491]. Hawaiian Is. records: Pagurus punctatus [sic] Olivier, 1812 — Randall 1840: 132 [“Sandwich Is.”]. Dardanus punctatus [sic] ( Olivier, 1812) — Edmondson 1925: 24 [ Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 265, fig. 161 d [H.I.]. Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804) View in CoL — Tinker 1965: 52, pl. 14 [H.I.]. — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 75 [ Johnston

Atoll]. — Hoover 2006: 259, color photograph [Maui]. — De Grave et al. 2009: fig. 5B, color photograph

[French Frigate Shoals]. Taxonomy. Haig & Ball (1988), McLaughlin et al. (2007) Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region. Habitat. Intertidal, shallow subtidal to at least 55 m.

References

Amerson, A. B. & Shelton, P. C. (1976) The natural history of Johnston Atoll, Central Pacific Ocean. Atoll Research Bulletin, 192, i - xx + 1 - 479.

De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N. D., Ahyong, S. T., Chan, T-Y, Crandall, K. A., Dworschak, P. C., Felder, D. L., Feldmann, R. M., Fransen, C. H. J. M., Goulding, L. Y. D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M. E. Y., Martin, J. W., Ng, P. K. L., Schweitzer, C. E., Tan, S. H., Tshudy, D. and Wetzer, R. (2009) A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 21, 1 - 109.

Edmondson, C. H. (1925) Crustacea. In: Marine Zoology of tropical central Pacific (Tanager Expedition, Publication 1). Bulletin Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 27, 3 - 62.

Haig, J. & Ball, E. E. (1988) Hermit crabs from North Australian and Eastern Indonesian waters (Crustacea Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) collected during the 1975 Alpha Helix Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum, 40, 151 - 196.

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

McLaughlin, P. A., Rahayu, D. L., Komai, T. & Chan, T. - Y. (2007) A Catalog of the Hermit Crabs (Paguroidea) of Taiwan. National Taiwan University, Keelung, viii + 636 pp.

Olivier, G. A. (1812) Pagure. In: Olivier, G. A. (Ed.), Encylopedie Methodique, Histoire Naturelle. Insectes, Suite de l'Introduction a l'Histoire naturelle des Insectes 8 [1811], H. Agasse, Paris, pp. 636 - 649.

Randall, J. W. (1840) Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J. K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the Academy. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 8 (1) [1839], 106 - 147, pls. 3 - 7.

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.