Nautilograpsus major MacLeay, 1838: 66 [type locality: South Africa; lectotype: MMUS C2921].
Hawaiian Is. records:
Nautilograpsus minutus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Lenz 1901: 472 [“between Honolulu and San Francisco:” probably not a H.I. record].
Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Rathbun 1906: 840 [Kaiwi Channel east of O‘ahu, O‘ahu, Moloka‘i]; 1918: 253, pl. 63 [O‘ahu, northeast of H.I.]. — Edmondson 1946: 306, fig. 183 f [O‘ahu]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 364, 369 [H.I.].
Planes cyaneus Dana, 1851 — Edmondson 1925: 57 [Laysan]; 1959: 176, fig. 12 [O‘ahu, Midway Is., Laysan]. — Chace 1951: 88, figs. 1 b, 2 b, 2 e, 2 h, 2 m –o, 3 i–n [O‘ahu]. — Coles, Reath, Longenecker, Bolick & Eldredge 2004: 139 [Moloka‘i]. — N.K. Ng et al. 2007: 256 [O‘ahu].
Taxonomy. Chace (1951), Ng et al. (2008)
Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific and Tropical Eastern Pacific regions, South Atlantic Ocean.
Habitat. Pelagic, on floating seaweeds, jellyfishes, Velella, sea turtles, and flotsam.