Medaeus elegans A. Milne-Edwards, 1867

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 : 95

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scientific name	Medaeus elegans A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
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Medaeus elegans A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 View in CoL

Medaeus elegans A. Milne-Edwards, 1867: 270 View in CoL [type locality: New Caledonia; holotype: MNHN-B9452 ].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Medaeus elegans A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 View in CoL — Edmondson 1923b: 1552 [Kure Atoll]; 1925: 50 [O‘ahu, Kure Atoll]; 1946: 288 [H.I.]; 1962a: 236, figs. 4e, 6a [H.I.]. — Pesta 1933: 280 [H.I.]. — Titgen 1987: 108 [H.I.]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 2002b: 139 [O‘ahu].

? Medaeus elegans A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 View in CoL — Coles et al. 2001: 53 [ Johnston Atoll].

Remarks. The species appears to actually represent a species complex ( Mendoza & Ng 2010).

Taxonomy. Guinot (1967a)

Geographical distribution. Western Pacific Ocean, Hawaiian Is., Johnston Atoll.

Habitat. Shallow subtidal.