Albunea speciosa Dana, 1852

Boyko, Christopher B., 2000, The Hippoidea (Decapoda, Anomura) of the Marquises Islands, with description of a new species of Albunea, Zoosystema 22 (1), pp. 107-116 : 115

Albunea speciosa Dana, 1852

Albunaea [sic] speciosa Dana, 1852: 405-406 .

Albunea speciosa – Boyko 1999: 147-155, figs 3; 4 (synonymy).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Marquises Islands, French Polynesia. CTT: stn 24, 4 3.0- 4.8 mm, 1 4.4 mm, 4 juveniles 3.2-3.7 mm (MNHN-Hi 244), 1 4.8 mm, 1 5.2 mm ( AMNH 17818), 1 4.6 mm,

1 5.4 mm ( USNM 260951). — Stn 24 bis, 1 6.8 mm (MNHN-Hi 245). — Stn 32, 3 4.1- 7.0 mm, 3 4.4-7.2 mm, 1 ovigerous 6.8 mm, 5 juveniles 3.2-4.0 mm (MNHN-Hi 246). — Stn 34, 1 6.7 mm (MNHN-Hi 247).

DISTRIBUTION. — Hawaii, Marquises Islands, Western Australia, Seychelles, Maldives, 3.7-34 m depth.

REMARKS

This species was redescribed and all known aspects of its biology noted by Boyko (1999). Although not previously reported from the Marquises, its occurrence there is not surprising, given the broad extent of its range. The Marquises specimens from CTT stn 24 bis increase the known depth range of the species up to between 20- 34 m. As very few specimens were collected, this species is either not as common in the Marquises as A. marquisiana , or occurs only at shallower depths where less collecting effort was made by MUSORSTOM 9. Discovery of specimens of A. speciosa in the southern Pacific islands supports a southwest to northeast disper- sal pattern for this species from its presumed western Indo-Pacific origin towards Hawaii, the type locality and easternmost part of its range (Boyko 1999).