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Plagusia squamosa

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Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790)

Cancer squamosus Herbst, 1790: 260, pl. 20, fig. 113 [type locality: Ostindien; neotype: ZMB Herbst 0498].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Plagusia orientalis Stimpson, 1858: 103 [type localities: Hong Kong, insulas Hawaienses; lectotype and paralectotype: USNM 2012].

Plagusia orientalis Stimpson, 1858 — Stimpson 1907: 123 [H.I.].

Plagusia tuberculata Lamarck, 1818 — Schauinsland 1899: 92 [Laysan]. — Lenz 1901: 473 [Laysan]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 2002a: 266, 333 [O‘ahu].

Plagusia depressa tuberculata Lamarck, 1818 — Rathbun 1906: 841 [O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Maui, Hawai‘i, H.I., Laysan]; 1918: 334, pl. 102 (part) [O‘ahu, Maui, Hawai‘i, H.I, Laysan]. — Edmondson 1925: 56 [Lisianski, Laysan, Gardner Pinnacles, Necker]; 1946: 308, fig. 184 d [H.I.]; 1959: 190, fig. 22a [H.I., Lisianski]. — Tinker 1965: 126, pl. 151 [H.I.]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 363 [H.I.]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 156 [O‘ahu].

Plagusia depressa (Fabricius, 1775) — Pesta 1933: 281 [H.I.]. (not Cancer depressus Fabricius, 1775)

Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790) — Hoover 1906: 287, color photograph [O‘ahu]. — Schubart & Cuesta 2010: 283 [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Schubart & Ng (2000), Schubart & Cuesta (2010)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region; Clipperton I. and other Tropical Eastern Pacific locations.

Habitat. Hard bottoms; low intertidal, shallow subtidal, and on flotsam and ship’s hulls.

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 119, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5283044

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Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM , ZMB
Material sample ID
USNM 2012
Scientific name authorship
Herbst
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Plagusiidae
Genus
Plagusia
Species
squamosa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , neotype
Taxonomic concept label
Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790) sec. Castro, 2011

References

  • Stimpson, W. (1907) Report on the Crustacea (Brachyura and Anomura) collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 1853 - 1856. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 49 (1717), 1 - 240, pls. 1 - 26.
  • Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de (1818) Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres, presentant les caracteres generaux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales especes qui s'y rapportent; precedee d'une introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentials de l'animal, sa distinction du vegetal et des autres corps naturels, enfin, l'exposition des principes fondamentaux de la zoologie, vol. 5, Deterville, Verdiere, Paris, 612 pp.
  • Schauinsland, H. H. (1899) Drei Monate auf einer Koralleninsel (Laysan). M. Nossler, Bremen, 104 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.
  • Coles, S. L., DeFelice, R. C. & Eldredge, L. G. (2002 a) Nonindigenous marine species in Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i. Final report prepared for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the State of Hawai`i, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources. Bishop Museum Technical Report, 24, i - vii, 1 - 353 pp.
  • 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. (1925) Crustacea. In: Marine Zoology of tropical central Pacific (Tanager Expedition, Publication 1). Bulletin Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 27, 3 - 62.
  • Tinker, S. W. (1965) Pacific Crustacea. An Illustrated Handbook on the Reef-Dwelling Crustacea of Hawaii and the South Seas. Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, VT & Tokyo, 134 pp.
  • 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.
  • Coles, S. L., DeFelice, R. C. & Eldredge, L. G. (1999) Nonindigenous marine species introductions in the harbors of the south and west shores of Oahu, Hawaii. Report prepared for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Bishop Museum Technical Report, 15, i - vii, 1 - 210.
  • Pesta, O. (1933) Zoogeographische Berichte uber Crustaceen. Zoologisches Anzeiger, 104, 274 - 282.
  • Schubart, C. D. & Cuesta, J. A. (2010) Phylogenetic relationships of the Plagusiidae Dana, 1851 (Brachyura), with description of a new genus and recognition of Percnidae Stevcic, 2005, as an independent family. In: Castro, P., Davie, P. J. F., Ng, P. K. L. & Richer de Forges, B. (Eds.), Studies on Brachyura: A Homage to Daniele Guinot. Crustaceana Monographs, 11, 279 - 299.
  • Schubart, C. D. & Ng, P. K. L. (2000) On the identities of the rafting crabs Cancer depressus Fabricius, 1775, Cancer squamosus Herbst, 1790, Plagusia immaculata Lamarck, 1818, and Plagusia tuberculata Lamarck, 1818 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Plagusiidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 48 (2), 327 - 336.