Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924

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 : 66

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

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scientific name

Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924
status

 

Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924 View in CoL

Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924: 127 View in CoL , fig. 25 [type locality: Samoa; holotype: USNM 46378 View Materials ].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924 View in CoL — Edmondson 1951: 223, fig. 25 [O‘ahu]; 1954: 226, fig. 4c, d [O‘ahu]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 157 [O‘ahu].

Remarks. The status of the species of Libystes is in need of revision ( Apel & Spiridonov 1998; Ng 2011).

Although some (e.g. Vannini & Innocenti 2000) regard L. villosus as a junior synonym of L. nitidus A. Milne-

Edwards, 1867, it is a valid species (Ng 2011). The Hawaiian specimens of L. villosus , however, may represent a distinct species (P.K.L. Ng, personal communication).

Taxonomy. Ng (2011)

Geographical distribution. Western Pacific Ocean, Hawaiian Is.

Habitat. Subtidal to 73 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Portunidae

Genus

Libystes

Loc

Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924

Castro, Peter 2011
2011
Loc

Libystes villosus

Coles, S. L. & DeFelice, R. C. & Eldredge, L. G. 1999: 157
Edmondson, C. H. 1951: 223
1951
Loc

Libystes villosus

Rathbun, M. J. 1924: 127
1924
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