Pseudopalicus oahuensis ( Rathbun, 1906 )

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 : 55-56

Pseudopalicus oahuensis ( Rathbun, 1906)

Palicus oahuensis Rathbun, 1906: 836 , fig. 2, pl. 7, fig. 4 [type locality: O‘ahu; holotype: USNM 29374 ]. Additional references on Hawaiian Is. material:

Palicus oahuensis ( Rathbun, 1906) — Edmondson 1946: 309 [Rathbun’s record].

Cymopolia oahuensis ( Rathbun, 1906) — Edmondson 1962b: 9 [Rathbun’s record].

Pseudopalicus oahuensis ( Rathbun, 1906) — Castro 2000a: 465, figs. 4e, f, 12a, 60c [holotype].

Remarks. Described from the Hawaiian Is. but but no subsequent records are known from the archipelago. Deepwater species but recorded, most probably in error, from “Honolulu Reef” ( Rathbun 1906).

Taxonomy. Castro (2000a)

Geographical distribution. Tropical Pacific Ocean.

Habitat. Bathyal, 260–660 m.

SUPERFAMILY PARTHENOPOIDEA MacLeay, 1838

Family Parthenopidae MacLeay, 1838

Subfamily Daldorfiinae Ng & Rodríguez, 1986

Genus Daldorfia Rathbun, 1904

Daldorfia horrida ( Linnaeus, 1758) , although listed as found in the Hawaiian Is. by Sakai (1976) and McLaughlin et al. (2005), has yet to be reliably recorded from the Hawaiian Is. Reidentified Hawaiian material previously identified as D. horrida actually belongs to either D. dimorpha S.H. Tan & Ng, 2007 (see below) or D. rathbunae ( De Man, 1902) (see below) (S.H. Tan & Ng 2007b).