Ranina ranina ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 37-38

Ranina ranina ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Cancer raninus Linnaeus, 1758: 625 [type locality: M. Indico; type material: status and location unknown].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Cancer raninus Linnaeus, 1758 — Dixon 1789: plate opposite p. 243 [“Sandwich Is.”].

Ranina serrata Lamarck, 1801 — Randall 1840: 130 [“Sandwich Is.”]. — Dana 1852b: 404 [“Sandwich Is.”]. — Lenz 1901: 450 [O‘ahu]. — Pesta 1933: 280 [H.I]. — Edmondson 1946: 272, fig. 168 [H.I.]. — Clarke 1972a: 12 [O‘ahu].

Ranina ranina ( Linnaeus, 1758) — Tinker 1965: 80, pl. 28, frontispiece [color] [H.I.]. — Onizuka 1972: 1, figs. 1– 11 [O‘ahu]. — Fielding & Haley 1976: 131, fig. 1 [Penguin Bank east of Moloka‘i]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 365, 370, fig. 29 [H.I.]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 2002a: 265 [O‘ahu]. — Hoover 2006: 266, 346, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Ahyong et al. (2009)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Buries in sediment; intertidal, shallow subtidal to at least 200 m.

SECTION EUBRACHYURA de Saint Laurent, 1980

SUBSECTION HETEROTREMATA Guinot, 1977

SUPERFAMILY AETHROIDEA Dana, 1851

Family Aethridae Dana, 1851

Genus Actaeomorpha Miers, 1877