Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Anomura - Albuneidae - Albunea

Albunea bulla ? Boyko, 2002



Distribution : Boyko (2002: 266) Known from Taiwan; Queensland, Australia; New Caledonia; and Fiji, in up to 29.3 m depth. Also provisionally from Pitcairn Island in 47.6-54.9 m depth

Selected Reference(s)
Albunea bulla. - Boyko, C.B., 2002: 260, fig. 85-86. [Specimen from Pitcairn in bad condition, prov. det. only] - Pitcairn

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Pitcairn (det. with hesitation) - Marine; Soft bottom (mud or sand); Sublittoral (47-55 m).

Regional Records: Albunea bulla - Boyko, 2002: 260, fig. 85-86 (Pitcairn Island, 47.6-54.9 m, Sept. 20, 1967, coll. National Geographic Society-Smithsonian-Bishop Museum Marquesas Expediton, 1 unsexable anterior half; "The Pitcairn specimen exists only as the carapace and anterior half of the animal with all appendages anterior to and including pereopod I. Given its poor condition, it is only provisionally referred to this species, although the characters of the extant structures are essentially identical.").

Depth distribution: 47 - 55 m


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/