Cyclodius nitidus (Dana, 1852)

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 : 89-90

Cyclodius nitidus (Dana, 1852)

Pilodius nitidus Dana, 1852a: 80 [type locality: Samoa; type material presumed lost].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Phymodius nitidus (Dana, 1852) — Rathbun 1906: 858 [O‘ahu, Moloka‘i]. — Edmondson 1925: 44 [O‘ahu, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lisianski, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals, Necker, Nihoa, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 296, fig. 179 b [H.I.]; 1962a: 280, fig. 23b [H.I.]. — Pesta 1933: 280 [H.I.]. — Forest & Guinot 1961: 114, pl. 15 [H.I.]. — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 76 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Titgen 1987: 108 [Laysan]. — Coles et al. 1997: C–79 [O‘ahu]. — DeFelice et al. 1998: 16 [Midway Is.]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 160 [O‘ahu]; 2002a: 271, 334 [O‘ahu]; 2002b: 140, 224 [O‘ahu]. — Coles et al. 2001: 53 [ Johnston Atoll]. — DeFelice et al. 2002: 30, 72 [French Frigate Shoals]. — Coles, Reath, Longenecker, Bolick & Eldredge 2004: 144 [Moloka‘i, Maui, Hawai‘i]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 39, 49 [Moloka‘i]. — Coles et al. 2009: 63,78, 175 [O‘ahu].

Chlorodopsis scabricula (Dana, 1852) — Rathbun 1906: 859 [O‘ahu]. — Edmondson 1946: 295 [Rathbun’s record]. (not Pilodius scrabiculus Dana, 1852 )

Taxonomy. Forest & Guinot (1961, as Phymodius nitidus ), Serène (1984, as P. nitidus )

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Intertidal, shallow subtidal.