Metopograpsus thukuhar ( Owen, 1839 )

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 : 115-116

Metopograpsus thukuhar ( Owen, 1839)

Grapsus thukuhar Owen, 1839: 80 , pl. 24, figs. 3, 3 a [type locality: O‘ahu; type material: destroyed ( Crane 1975: 324)].

Additional Hawaiian Is. records:

Pachygrapsus parallelus Randall, 1840: 127 (part?) [type locality: “mouth of the Columbia River and Sandwich Is.; ” holotype, apparent paratypes: ANSP CA3545 ].

Gonigrapsus thukujar [sic] Owen, 1839 — Dana 1852b: 344 [“Sandwich Is.”].

Metopograpsus eydouxi H. Milne Edwards, 1853: 165 [type locality: Iles “Sandwich;” holotype: MNHN-B3547 ].

Metopograpsus thukuhar ( Owen, 1839) — H. Milne Edwards 1853: 165 [O‘ahu]. — Stimpson 1858b: 101 [Hawai‘i]; 1907: 114 [H.I.]. — Streets 1877: 114 [H.I.]. — Lenz 1901: 470 [O‘ahu]. — Edmondson 1959: 166, figs. 6b, 7b [O‘ahu, H.I.]. — Banerjee 1960: 186, fig. 6 f, g [Hawai‘i, H.I.]. — Forest & Guinot 1961: 155, figs. 162, 167 [holotype of M. eydouxi H. Milne Edwards, 1853 ]. — Maciolek & Timbol 1981: 718 [O‘ahu]. — Coles et al. 1997: C–73 [O‘ahu]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 155 [O‘ahu]; 2002b: 223 [O‘ahu]. — Coles, Reath, Longenecker, Bolick & Eldredge 2004: 138 [Maui]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 38 [Moloka‘i]. — Paulay 2007: 297, fig. 1D [O‘ahu]. — Coles et al. 2009: 78, 168 [O‘ahu].

Metopograpsus messor ( Forskål, 1775) — Edmondson 1959: 166, figs. 6b, 7b [O‘ahu [H.I.].

Remarks. Hawaiian Is. records of Metopograpsus messor ( Forskål, 1775) most probably represent M. thukuhar

(see above).

Taxonomy. Banerjee (1960), Forest & Guinot (1961, as M. thukuar [sic]), Crosnier (1965), Paulay (2007)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Rocky and muddy supratidal.