Huenia heraldica (De Haan, 1837)

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 : 48

Huenia heraldica (De Haan, 1837)

Maja (Huenia) heraldica De Haan, 1837: 95 [as Maja (Huenia) proteus ], pl. 23, fig. 6a, b [type locality: Japan;

lectotype: RMNH]. Hawaiian Is. records: Huenia brevirostrata Dana, 1851a: 273 [type locality: Insulas Hawaiensis; type material presumed lost]. Huenia brevirostrata Dana, 1851 — Dana: 1852b: 134, 1577, pl. 6, fig. 4 [“Sandwich Is., Oahu or Maui.”]. Huenia proteus (De Haan, 1839) — Rathbun 1906: 880 [Moloka‘i, Au‘au Channel, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals,

“Modu Manu” (=Moku Manu, or Nihoa), H.I.]. — Edmondson 1923b: 1551 [Rathbun’s records]. —

Griffin & Tranter 1986: 84, figs. 24c, d [O‘ahu]. Remarks. Holthuis (1987) discussed the nomenclature of the species. Taxonomy. Griffin & Tranter (1986, as Huenia proteus ), Davie (2002, as Maja (Huenia) proteus ) Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region. Habitat. Intertidal, shallow subtidal to bathyal, to 329 m.