Trapezia flavopunctata Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

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 : 80-81

Trapezia flavopunctata Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

Trapezia flavo-punctata Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842: 230 , pl. 2, fig. 3 [color]. [type locality: îles “Sandwich;”

holotype: MNHN-B2968]. Additional Hawaiian Is. records: Trapezia latifrons A. Milne-Edwards, 1867: 281 [type locality: îles “Sandwich;” syntypes: MNHN-B2954, 2955]. Trapezia latifrons A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 — Lenz 1901: 467 [Laysan]. Grapsillus rufopunctatus flavopunctatus Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 — Rathbun 1906: 866 [earlier H.I. records]. Trapezia rufopunctata (Herbst, 1799) — Edmondson 1925: 41 [Kure Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lisianski,

Laysan, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 301 [H.I.]; 1962a: 300 (part) [H.I.]. (not Cancer rufopunctatus Herbst,

1899) Trapezia flavopunctata Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 — Edmondson 1946: 301 [earlier H.I. records]; 1962a: 300, figs.

31d, 32a [Pearl and Hermes Reef]. — Barry 1965: 23 [O‘ahu]. — Galil & Lewinsohn 1984: 170

[holotype]; 1985: 210 [O‘ahu, Pearl and Hermes Reef]. — Serène 1984: 275, 276, fig. 183, pl. 42, fig. A

[holotype]. — Castro 1997b: 121 [holotype]; 1998: 73 [H.I., Kure Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef]. —

Coles, Eldredge, Kandel, Reath & Longenecker 2004: 65 [Moloka‘i, Maui, Hawai‘i]. — Hoover 2006:

284, color photograph [O‘ahu]. Trapezia flavomaculata [sic] Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 — Preston 1973: 470, fig. 1–5 [H.I.]. — Huber 1985b: 24

[O‘ahu]. — Coles 1986: 309, 311 [H.I.]. — Huber & Coles 1986: 23 [O‘ahu]. — Coles & Swenson 2010:

75 [Kaula Rock, Ni‘ihau, Moloka‘i, Lāna‘i, Molokini]. Remarks. Edmondson (1962a) confused T. flavopunctata with T. rufopunctata (Herbst, 1799) , which is evident from BPBM specimens identified by him (see Castro 1998). Taxonomy. Serène (1984), Galil & Lewinsohn (1985), Castro (1998), Castro et al. (2004) Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region. Habitat. Symbiont of scleractinian reef corals ( Pocillopora and other pocilloporids); shallow subtidal to 26 m.