Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804)

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 : 25

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scientific name	Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804)
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Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804) View in CoL

Cancer megistos Herbst, 1804: 23 , pl. 61, fig. 1 (color) [type locality: Ostindien; holotype: ZMB Herbst 2491]. Hawaiian Is. records: Pagurus punctatus [sic] Olivier, 1812 — Randall 1840: 132 [“Sandwich Is.”]. Dardanus punctatus [sic] ( Olivier, 1812) — Edmondson 1925: 24 [ Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 265, fig. 161 d [H.I.]. Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804) View in CoL — Tinker 1965: 52, pl. 14 [H.I.]. — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 75 [ Johnston

Atoll]. — Hoover 2006: 259, color photograph [Maui]. — De Grave et al. 2009: fig. 5B, color photograph

[French Frigate Shoals]. Taxonomy. Haig & Ball (1988), McLaughlin et al. (2007) Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region. Habitat. Intertidal, shallow subtidal to at least 55 m.