Carpilius convexus ( Forskål, 1775 )

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 : 41

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2947.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5290654
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scientific name	Carpilius convexus ( Forskål, 1775 )
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Carpilius convexus ( Forskål, 1775) View in CoL

Cancer convexus Forskål, 1775: 88 [type locality: Red Sea; type material presumed lost].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Carpilius convexus ( Forskål, 1775) View in CoL — Dana 1852b: 159, pl. 7, fig. 5 [“Sandwich Is.”]. — Rathbun 1906: 842 [O‘ahu, Hawai‘i]. — Lenz 1901: 464 [Laysan]. — Pesta 1033: 280 [H.I.]. — Edmondson 1925: 54 [O‘ahu, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 284, fig. 176 a [H.I.]; 1962a: 223, fig. 1b [H.I.]. — Buitendijk 1960: 263 [Hawai‘i]. — Tinker 1965: 112, pl. 44 [H.I.]. — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 75 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 366 [H.I.]. — Titgen 1987: 108 [O‘ahu]. — Wetzer et al. 2003: 412 [Maro Reef, Necker]. — Hoover 2006: 278, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Crosnier (1984b), Wetzer et al. (2003)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region; Clipperton I. (Tropical Eastern Pacific region).

Habitat. Shallow subtidal, 10–59 m.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Carpiliidae
Genus	Carpilius