Portunus (Xiphonectes) longispinosus longispinosus (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 : 70-71

Portunus (Xiphonectes) longispinosus longispinosus (Dana, 1852)

Amphitrite longi-spinosa Dana, 1852a: 84 [type locality: insulas Vitienses (= Fiji); type material presumed lost].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Amphitrite vigilans Dana, 1852a: 84 [type locality: insulas Hawaienses; type material presumed lost].

Amphitrite vigilans Dana, 1852 — Dana 1852b: 278, pl. 17, fig. 3 [“Sandwich Is.”].

Portunus (Xiphonectes) longispinosus (Dana, 1852) — Rathbun 1906: 871, fig. 30, pl. 12, fig. 6 [Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i]. — Edmondson 1925: 36 [Laysan, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 280 [H.I.]; 1954: 241, figs. 18a–c, 19a [O‘ahu, Laysan, Johnston Atoll].

Portunus longispinosus (Dana, 1852) — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 75 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Stephenson 1976: 17 [H.I.].

Remarks. The species appears to consist of several distinct species ( Crosnier 1962; Stephenson & Rees 1967).

Taxonomy. Crosnier (1962), Stephenson & Rees (1967)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Shallow subtidal to 68 m.