Tumidodromia dormia ( Linnaeus, 1763 )

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Tumidodromia dormia ( Linnaeus, 1763)

Cancer dormia Linnaeus, 1763: 413 [type locality: Indiis; type material status and location unknown].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Dromia hirsutissima Dana 1852b: 403 [type locality: “Sandwich Is.;” type material presumed lost].

Dromia rumphii Weber, 1795 — Lenz 1901: 450 [O‘ahu].

Dromia rumphii Weber, 1795 — Edmondson 1922: 33 [H.I.?].

Dromidiopsis dormia ( Linnaeus, 1763) — Edmondson 1946: 226, 268, fig. 164 [O‘ahu]. — Wiersma & Ripley 1952: 393 [O‘ahu]. — Tinker 1965: 66, 133, pl. 21 [H.I.]. — Fielding & Robinson 1987: 84, color photograph [H.I.].

Dromia dromia [sic] ( Linnaeus, 1763) — Titcomb et al. 1979: 367 [H.I.].

Dromia dormia ( Linnaeus, 1763) — Chave & Malahoff 1998: table 1 [Hawai‘i]. — Coles et al. 2001: 53 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Hoover 2006: 265, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. McLay (1993, as Dromia dormia ; 2009), McLay & Ng (2005, as Dromia dormia ), Ahyong et al.

(2009, as Dromia dormia )

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Often carries sponges or non-living material; subtidal, 8–156 m.