Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Charybdis

Charybdis rathbuni Leene, 1938



Distribution : Indonesia (Banda, 9-45 m); Central Pacific: French Polynesia (Tuamotu, and perhaps Austral and Marquesas, 40-200 m.

Remarks : Crosnier (2002: 417): "Ces spécimens posent la question de la délimitation des genres Charybdis et Thalamita .. . D'ailleurs Stephenson (1972b: 10) s'est demandé si C. rathbuni ne devait pas être considéré comme un synonyme de Thalamita spinifera."

Selected Reference(s)
Thalamita spinifera. - Poupin, J., 1996a: 36. [Not Thalamita spinifera Borradaile, 1903; see Crosnier, 2002] - French Polynesia
Charybdis rathbuni. - Crosnier, A., 2002: 415. - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Tuamotu (Makemo) - Marine; Sublittoral (120 m); Hard bottom.

Regional Records: Thalamita spinifera - Poupin, 1996a: 36 (in part, only sp. from Makemo, 120 m see Crosnier 2002); 1996b: 36 (in part, only sp. from Makemo); not Thalamita spinifera Borradaile, 1903, see Crosnier 2002. - Charybdis rathbuni - Crosnier, 2002: 415, fig. 8-10 (Makemo; 120 m; coll. Frv Marara, fr).

Depth distribution: 120 - 120 m


References : compilation of references cited in Poupin (1996, 1998, 2003) and Poupin et al. (2009) - PDF 412 Ko



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