Galathea spinosorostris Dana, 1852

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Galathea spinosorostris Dana, 1852

Galathea spinoso-rostris Dana, 1852b: 480 , pl. 30, fig. 9 [type locality: “Sandwich Is.;” type material presumed lost]. Additional Hawaiian Is. records: Galathea spinirostris [sic] Dana, 1852 — Pesta 1930: 280 [H.I.]. Galathea spinosorostris Dana, 1852 — Edmondson 1925: 20 [O‘ahu, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Laysan, French

Frigate Shoals]; 1946: 262, fig. 160 [H.I.]. — Brock et al. 1965: 13 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Coles et al. 1998:

15, 25 [Kaho‘olawe]. — DeFelice et al. 1998: 17 [Midway Is.]; 2002: 30, 73 [French Frigate Shoals]. —

Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 155 [O‘ahu]; 2002b: 146, 224 [O‘ahu]. — Coles et al. 2001: 53

[ Johnston Atoll]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 38, 48 [Moloka‘i].

Taxonomy. Baba (2005)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region; introduced to New Zealand ( Ahyong & Wilkens 2011).

Habitat. Intertidal, shallow subtidal to bathyal, 410 m.