Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858

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 : 43

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5290682

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B55987C1-FFCC-FFA1-FF30-9DB4FDE8DDF1

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scientific name

Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858
status

 

Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858 View in CoL

Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858a: 35 View in CoL [type locality: Hong Kong; type material presumed lost].

Hawaiian Is. record:

Menippe convexa Rathbun, 1894: 239 View in CoL [type locality: O‘ahu; holotype: USNM 13908 View Materials ].

Menippe convexa Rathbun, 1894 View in CoL — Rathbun 1906: 861, pl. 11, fig. 4 [holotype].

Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858 View in CoL — Edmondson 1962a: 282, fig. 25a [Rathbun’s record].

Remarks. Recorded once from the Hawaiian Is. ( Rathbun 1906, as Menippe convexa ) but no subsequent records are known from the archipelago. Fouling species ( Yeo et al. 2011) that could have been introduced.

Taxonomy. Edmondson (1962a), Crosnier (1984b)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region; introduced to the Mediterranean Sea ( Brockerhoff & McLay 2011) and New Zealand ( Ahyong & Wilkens 2011).

Habitat. Shallow subtidal to 35 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Menippidae

Genus

Sphaerozius

Loc

Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858

Castro, Peter 2011
2011
Loc

Sphaerozius nitidus

Edmondson, C. H. 1962: 282
1962
Loc

Menippe convexa

Rathbun, M. J. 1906: 861
1906
Loc

Menippe convexa

Rathbun, M. J. 1894: 239
1894
Loc

Sphaerozius nitidus

Stimpson, W. 1858: 35
1858
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