Opecarcinus crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925 )

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 : 112

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2947.1.1

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scientific name

Opecarcinus crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925 )
status

 

Opecarcinus crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925) View in CoL

Cryptochirus crescentus Edmondson, 1925: 33 View in CoL , fig. 6, pl. 1B, C [type locality: Johnston Atoll, also from Moloka‘i ; holotype: BPBM S1805 View Materials ].

Additional Hawaiian Is. records:

Cryptochirus crescentus Edmondson, 1925 View in CoL — Edmondson 1933: 16 [Moloka‘i record]; 1946: 43, 273 [H.I.].

Troglocarcinus (Troglocarcinus) crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925) — Serène 1962: 32 [ Johnston Atoll].

Pseudocryptochirus crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925) — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 76 [ Johnston Atoll].

Opecarcinus crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925) View in CoL — Kropp 1989: 99, figs. 1, 2 [holotype, O‘ahu]; 1990: 435 [holotype].

Taxonomy. Kropp (1989, 1990)

Geographical distribution. Western Pacific Ocean, Hawaiian Is., Johnston Atoll; Baja California, Mexico

(Tropical Eastern Pacific region)

Habitat. Forms crescent-shaped cavities in scleractininan reef corals (mostly Pavona ); shallow subtidal to 14 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Cryptochiridae

Genus

Opecarcinus

Loc

Opecarcinus crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925 )

Castro, Peter 2011
2011
Loc

Opecarcinus crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925 )

Kropp, R. K. 1989: 99
1989
Loc

Pseudocryptochirus crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925 )

Amerson, A. B. & Shelton, P. C. 1976: 76
1976
Loc

Troglocarcinus (Troglocarcinus) crescentus ( Edmondson, 1925 )

Serene, R. 1962: 32
1962
Loc

Cryptochirus crescentus

Edmondson, C. H. 1933: 16
1933
Loc

Cryptochirus crescentus

Edmondson, C. H. 1925: 33
1925
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