Domecia hispida Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

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 : 78

Domecia hispida Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

Domecia hispida Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842: 235 , pl. 2, figs. 5[color]–10 [type locality: îles “Sandwich;” holotype: MNHN-B7601 ].

Additional Hawaiian Is. records:

Domecia hispida Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 — Rathbun 1906: 866 [Kaua‘i, Penguin Bank east of Moloka‘i, Laysan]. — Edmondson 1923b: 1552 [Kure Atoll]; 1925: 40 [Kure Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lisianski, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 301, fig. 181 a [H.I.]; 1962a: 217, 218, 302, fig. 31f [H.I.]. — Pesta 1933: 281 [H.I.]. — Forest & Guinot 1961: 126, figs. 117–119, 124 bis, pl. 18, fig. 1 [H.I.. type material]. — Guinot 1964b: 269, figs. 2, 3, 9, 13 [O‘ahu, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Laysan, type material]. — Barry 1965: 23 [O‘ahu]. — Brock et al. 1965: 14 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 75 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Titgen 1987: p 108 [Hawai‘i]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 159 [O‘ahu]; 2002a: 269, 333 [O‘ahu]; 2002b: 136, 224 [O‘ahu]. — Coles, Reath, Longenecker, Bolick & Eldredge 2004: 142 [Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 39, 49, 49 [Moloka‘i]. — Coles et al. 2008: 62 [Moloka‘i]. — Coles & Swenson 2010: 87 [Moloka‘i].

Domaecia [sic] hispida Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 — Lenz 1901: 465 [Laysan].

Taxonomy. Guinot (1976), Castro et al. (2004)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific and Tropical Eastern Pacific regions.

Habitat. Facultative symbiont of scleractinian reef corals (particularly species of Pocillopora ); shallow subtidal to

75 m.