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Planes major

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Description

Planes major (MacLeay, 1838)

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.

Notes

Published as part of Castro, Peter, 2011, Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947, pp. 1-154 in Zootaxa 2947 (1) on page 117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5283044

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MMUS
Family
Grapsidae
Genus
Planes
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
C2921
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
MacLeay
Species
major
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Planes major (MacLeay, 1838) sec. Castro, 2011

References

  • MacLeay, W. S. (1838) On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea. brought from the Cape by Dr. Smith, in Smith, A., Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; Consisting Chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected During an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836; Fitted out by ' The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa: Together with a Summary of African Zoology, and an Inquiry into the Geographical Ranges of Species in that Quarter of the Globe. Invertebratae. Smith, Elder & Co., London, pp. 53 - 71, pls. 2, 3.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 10, vol. 1, L. Salvii, Holmiae [= Stockholm], iv + 824 pp.
  • Lenz, H. (1901) Crustaceen. Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pazific (Schauinsland 1896 - 1897). Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, 14 (5), 429 - 482, pl. 32.
  • Rathbun, M. J. (1906) The Brachyura and Macrura of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23 (3) [1903], 827 - 930, pls. 1 - 24.
  • Edmondson, C. H. (1946) Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii. Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Special Publication, 22, 1 - 381 [revised 1933 edition].
  • Titcomb, M., Fellows, D. B., Pukui, M. K. & Devaney, D. M. (1979) Native use of marine invertebrates in old Hawaii. Pacific Science, 32 (4) [1978], 325 - 391.
  • Edmondson, C. H. (1925) Crustacea. In: Marine Zoology of tropical central Pacific (Tanager Expedition, Publication 1). Bulletin Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 27, 3 - 62.
  • Chace, F. A. (1951) The oceanic crabs of the genera Planes and Pachygrapsus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 101 (3272), 65 - 103.
  • Coles, S. L., Reath, P. A., Longenecker, K., Bolick, H. & Eldredge, L. G. (2004) Assessment of nonindigenous marine species in harbors and on nearby coral reefs on Kaua'i, Moloka'i, Maui, and Hawai'i. Final report prepared for the Hawaii Community Foundation and the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Honolulu. Hawaii Biological Survey, 2004 - 018, 1 - 180.
  • Ng, N. K., Davie, P. J. F., Schubart, C. D. & Ng, P. K. L. (2007) Xenograpsidae, a new family of grapsoid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) associated with shallow water hydrothermal vents. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 16, 233 - 256.
  • Ng, P. K. L., Guinot, D. & Davie, P. (2008) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17, 1 - 286. [updates: http: // rmbr. nus. edu. sg / research / cotw / supplement 17. php (accessed March 2011)]