Etisus splendidus Rathbun, 1906

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Etisus splendidus Rathbun, 1906

Etisus splendidus Rathbun, 1906: 850 , pl. 3, fig. 10 [color] [type locality: O‘ahu; holotype: USNM 29464 ].

Additional Hawaiian Is. records:

Etisus splendidus Rathbun, 1906 : Edmondson 1946: 295, fig. 178 e [H.I.]; 1962a: 218, 267, fig. 17a [H.I.]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 367, 369 [H.I.]. — Fielding & Robinson 1987: 84, color photograph [H.I.]. — Titgen 1987: 108 [H.I.]. — Hoover 2006: 279, color photograph [Ni‘ihau].

Etisus (Etisodes) splendidus Rathbun, 1906 — Tinker 1965: 114, pl. 45 [H.I.].

Taxonomy. Guinot (1964a), Serène (1984)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Shallow subtidal to 10 m.

Etisus waialuanus ( Rathbun, 1906)

Leptodius waialuanus Rathbun, 1906: 848 , fig. 11, pl. 8, fig. 9 [type locality: O‘ahu; holotype: USNM 29506 ].

Additional Hawaiian Is. records:

Leptodius waialuanus Rathbun, 1906 — Edmondson 1923a: 1552 [Kure Atoll]; 1925: 51 [O‘ahu, Kure Atoll, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 289 [H.I.]; 1962a: 240, fig. 6f [H.I., Johnston Atoll]. — Forest & Guinot 1961: 68, fig. 53 [O‘ahu]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 39, 49 [Moloka‘i].

Remarks. Examination of the female holotype has shown that the species certainly does not belong in Leptodius

A. Milne-Edwards, 1863, but Etisus (P.K.L. Ng and J.C. Mendoza, personal communication).

Taxonomy. Forest & Guinot (1961)

Geographical distribution. Western Pacific Ocean, Hawaiian Is., Johnston Atoll.

Habitat. Intertidal, shallow subtidal.