Thalamita Latreille, 1829

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 : 72-73

Genus Thalamita Latreille, 1829

Thalamita admete (Herbst, 1803)

Cancer admete Herbst, 1803: 40 , pl. 57, fig. 1 [type locality: Ostindien; type material presumed lost (see K. Sakai 1999)].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Thalamita admete (Herbst, 1803) — Dana 1852b: 281, pl. 17, fig. 5 [“Sandwich Is.”]. — Streets 1877: 106 [H.I.]. — Rathbun 1906: 874 [Kaua‘i, Laysan] — Edmondson 1923b: 1550 [Rathbun’s records]; 1946: 283 [H.I.]; 1954: 255, figs. 30, 31 [Laysan] — Stephenson & Rees 1967: 58, 113, fig. 20 [O‘ahu]. — Stephenson 1972: 141 [O‘ahu]. — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 75 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Apel & Spriridonov 1998: 228, figs. 42, 47 [O‘ahu, Hawai‘i]. — DeFelice et al. 1998: 16 [Midway Is.].

Thalamita edwardsi Borradaile, 1900 — Rathbun 1906: 873 [Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i]. — Edmondson 1923b: 1552 [Kure Atoll]; 1925: 37 [H.I., Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lisianski, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 283, fig. 174 a [H.I.]; 1954: 254, figs. 28b, 29 [H.I.]. — Pesta 1933: 280 [H.I.]. — Banner 1968: 25 [O‘ahu]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 158 [O‘ahu]; 2002a: 268, 333 [O‘ahu]; 2002b: 135, 223 [O‘ahu]. — Coles et al. 2001: 52 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Coles, Reath, Longenecker, Bolick & Eldredge 2004: 141 [Hawai‘i].

Remarks. The species appears to represent a complex of several species ( Apel & Spiridonov 1998; Mantelatto et al. 2009; also see Rathbun 1906). Thalamita admete var. edwardsi Borradaile, 1900 , is treated here as a junior synonym (see Wee & Ng 1995; Ng et al. 2008) pending a revision of the species group.

Taxonomy. Crosnier (1962), Wee & Ng (1995), Vannini & Innocenti (2000)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Shallow subtidal to 120 m.