Planes major ( MacLeay, 1838 )

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 : 117

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2947.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5291293
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scientific name	Planes major ( MacLeay, 1838 )
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Planes major ( MacLeay, 1838) View in CoL

Nautilograpsus major MacLeay, 1838: 66 View in CoL [type locality: South Africa; lectotype: MMUS C2921 View Materials ].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Nautilograpsus minutus ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL — Lenz 1901: 472 [“between Honolulu and San Francisco:” probably not a H.I. record].

Planes minutus ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL — Rathbun 1906: 840 [Kaiwi Channel east of O‘ahu, O‘ahu, Moloka‘i]; 1918: 253, pl. 63 [O‘ahu, northeast of H.I.]. — Edmondson 1946: 306, fig. 183 f [O‘ahu]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 364, 369 [H.I.].

Planes cyaneus Dana, 1851 View in CoL — Edmondson 1925: 57 [Laysan]; 1959: 176, fig. 12 [O‘ahu, Midway Is., Laysan]. — Chace 1951: 88, figs. 1 b, 2 b, 2 e, 2 h, 2 m –o, 3 i–n [O‘ahu]. — Coles, Reath, Longenecker, Bolick & Eldredge 2004: 139 [Moloka‘i]. — N.K. Ng et al. 2007: 256 [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Chace (1951), Ng et al. (2008)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific and Tropical Eastern Pacific regions, South Atlantic Ocean.

Habitat. Pelagic, on floating seaweeds, jellyfishes, Velella , sea turtles, and flotsam.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Grapsidae
Genus	Planes