Elamene [sic] minuta A. Milne-Edwards, 1873: 324 (pro parte), pl. 18, fig. 5.
Elamena minuta – Kemp 1917: 250. — Tesch 1918: 21 (pro parte).
Halicarcinus minutus – Takeda & Nunomura 1976: 65, fig. 2. — Lucas 1980: 177 (pro parte). — Chuang & Ng 1994: 88 (pro parte).
Micas minutus – Ng & Richer de Forges 1996: 265–269, fig. 3. — Poore et al. 2016: 496.
This New Caledonian species has been collected under rocks in intertidal zone, along the shore or on the fringing reef of small coral islands.