Lybia edmondsoni Takeda & Miyake, 1970

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Lybia edmondsoni Takeda & Miyake, 1970

Lybia edmondsoni Takeda & Miyake, 1970: 12 , figs. 1–6 [type locality: O‘ahu, also from Moloka‘i, Pearl and

Hermes Reef; holotype: BPBM S3143]. Additional Hawaiian Is. records: Lybia tessellata ( Latreille, 1812) — Pesta 1933: 282 [H.I.]. (not Grapse tesselatus Latreille in Milbert, 1812) Lybia tesselata [sic] ( Latreille, 1812) — Verrrill 1828: 18, pl. 3, fig. B [H.I.]. — Rathbun 1906: 866 [Laysan,

“Modu Manu” (=Moku Manu, or Nihoa)]. — Edmondson 1923b: 1552 [Kure Atoll]; 1925: 40 [Kure

Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef, French Frigate Shoals]; 1946: 302, fig. 181 b [H.I.]; 1962a: 216, 303, fig. 33

[H.I.]. — Tinker 1965: 116, pl. 46 [H.I.]. (not Grapse tesselatus Latreille in Milbert, 1812) Lybia edmondsoni Takeda & Miyake, 1970 — Guinot 1976: 77, figs. 18D, 20I, J, 22E, pl. 2, fig. 7 [O‘ahu, H.I.]. —

Titcomb et al. 1979: 367, fig. 28 C [H.I.]. — Guinot et al. 1995: fig. 3A [O‘ahu]. — Karplus et al. 1998:

287, figs. 1, 3 [O‘ahu]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 2002a: 270, 333 [O‘ahu]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 39, 49 [Moloka‘i]. — Hoover 2006: 281, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Guinot (1976)

Geographical distribution. Only known from the Hawaiian Is.

Habitat. Chelipeds adapted to hold sea anemones (see Karplus et al. 1998); shallow subtidal to 55 m.