Tanaoa distinctus ( Rathbun, 1894 )

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 : 47-48

Tanaoa distinctus ( Rathbun, 1894)

Randallia distincta Rathbun, 1894: 257 [type locality: Kaiwi Channel east of O‘ahu; holotype: USNM 17516 ].

Additional Hawaiian Is. records:

Randallia distincta Rathbun, 1894 — Rathbun 1906: 890, fig. 44, pl. 16, figs. 2, 3 [Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Pailolo Channel east of Moloka‘i, Maui, Hawai‘i]. — Clarke 1972b: table 2 [O‘ahu]. — Richer de Forges 1983: figs. 7, 8 [holotype]. — Coles et al. 2001: 30 [ Johnston Atoll].

Tanaoa distinctus ( Rathbun, 1894) — Galil 2003: 402, figs. 1B, 3C, D (part) [O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Pailolo Channel east of Moloka‘i, Maui, Hawai‘i]. — Ng & Richer de Forges 2007: 16, figs. 1A, C, 4A–D [H.I.].

Taxonomy. Galil (2003), Ng & Richer de Forges (2007)

Geographical distribution. Hawaiian Is., Johnston Atoll, and questionably from the Solomon Is.

Habitat. Subtidal to bathyal, 163–805 m.

SUPERFAMILY MAJOIDEA Samouelle, 1819

Family Epialtidae MacLeay, 1838

Subfamily Epialtinae MacLeay, 1838

Edmondson (1949) described four megalops from the Hawaiian Is. and suggested that one, “ Megalops alpha,” belonged to Xenocarcinus White, 1847 ( Epialtidae , Epialtinae), a genus that has never been recorded from the Hawaiian Is. Not enough information was given but the megalop may belong to Ocypode (J.A. Cuesta, personal communication).