Pachygrapsus plicatus (H. Milne Edwards, 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 : 117

Pachygrapsus plicatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)

Grapsus plicatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) : 89 [type locality: iles “Sandwich;” lectotype, paralectotype: MNHN- B3585 ; part of type material: RMNH (see Davie 2002)] .

Additonal Hawaiian Is. records:

Goniograpsus plicatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) — Dana 1852b: 343 [“Sandwich Is.”].

Pachygrapsus plicatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) — Kingsley 1880b: 200 [O‘ahu]. — Cano 1889b: 240 [O‘ahu]. — Lenz 1901: 472 [Lysan]. — Rathbun 1906: 839 [Hawai‘i]. — Stimpson 1907: 117 [H.I.]. — Edmondson 1925: 55 [H.I., Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 306, fig. 183 c [H.I.]; 1959: 171, fig. 9c, 10a [H.I.]. — Chace 1966: fig. 11g [H.I.]. — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 76 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 156 [O‘ahu]. — Coles et al. 2001: 52 [ Johnston Atoll]. — DeFelice et al. 2001: B–45, unnumb. fig. [H.I.]. — Poupin et al. 2005: 37 , figs. 11, 14e, 15e [type material, O‘ahu]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 38 [Moloka‘i]. — Hoover 2006: 286, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Crosnier (1965), Poupin et al. (2005)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Intertidal on rocky shores and coral reefs.