Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790)

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 : 119

Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790)

Cancer squamosus Herbst, 1790: 260 , pl. 20, fig. 113 [type locality: Ostindien; neotype: ZMB Herbst 0498].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Plagusia orientalis Stimpson, 1858: 103 [type localities: Hong Kong, insulas Hawaienses ; lectotype and paralectotype: USNM 2012 ].

Plagusia orientalis Stimpson, 1858 — Stimpson 1907: 123 [H.I.].

Plagusia tuberculata Lamarck, 1818 — Schauinsland 1899: 92 [Laysan]. — Lenz 1901: 473 [Laysan]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 2002a: 266, 333 [O‘ahu].

Plagusia depressa tuberculata Lamarck, 1818 — Rathbun 1906: 841 [O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Maui, Hawai‘i, H.I., Laysan]; 1918: 334, pl. 102 (part) [O‘ahu, Maui, Hawai‘i, H.I, Laysan]. — Edmondson 1925: 56 [Lisianski, Laysan, Gardner Pinnacles, Necker]; 1946: 308, fig. 184 d [H.I.]; 1959: 190, fig. 22a [H.I., Lisianski]. — Tinker 1965: 126, pl. 151 [H.I.]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 363 [H.I.]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 156 [O‘ahu].

Plagusia depressa (Fabricius, 1775) — Pesta 1933: 281 [H.I.]. (not Cancer depressus Fabricius, 1775 )

Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790) — Hoover 1906: 287, color photograph [O‘ahu]. — Schubart & Cuesta 2010: 283 [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Schubart & Ng (2000), Schubart & Cuesta (2010)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region; Clipperton I. and other Tropical Eastern Pacific locations.

Habitat. Hard bottoms; low intertidal, shallow subtidal, and on flotsam and ship’s hulls.