Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Charybdis

Charybdis orientalis Dana, 1852


Selected Reference(s)
Charybdis (Charybdis) orientalis. - Poupin, J., 1996a: 31. - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Society - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; Hard bottom.

Regional Records: Charybdis (Charybdis) orientalis - Leene, 1938: 69 (Society; cf. Remark). - Poupin, 1996a: 31 (Checklist). - Remark: Although Leene (1938) does not mention clearly the location "Society", she indicates that F. Chace has examined, for her, in the USNM collections, a male from the Society islands attributed to C. orientalis (confronted with the type specimen).

References : compilation of references cited in Poupin (1996, 1998, 2003) and Poupin et al. (2009) - PDF 412 Ko
Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/