Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Anomura - Diogenidae - Clibanarius

Clibanarius humilis (Dana, 1851)


Distribution : (McLaughlin et al., 2007: 130) - Indo-West Pacific, Mauritius and Rodrigues Is., eastern Indian Ocean to Japanese, Ryukyu Is., Taiwan, Indonesia, New Caledonia, French Polynesia. Includes Wallis & Futuna.

Selected Reference(s)
Clibanarius humilis. - Forest, J., 1953a: 443, fig. 1, 5. - French Polynesia
Clibanarius humilis. - Poupin, J. and Juncker, M., 2008: . - Wallis & Futuna

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Wallis & Futuna (Futuna); Austral (Raevavae, Tubuai); Gambier (Mangareva, Tarauru-Roa); Society (Moorea, Tahiti); Tuamotu (Hikueru, Mataiva, Moruroa, Takume) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; Hard bottom.

Regional Records: WALLIS & FUTUNA - Clibanarius humilis - Poupin & Juncker, in preparation. - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Clibanarius aequabilis - ? Dana, 1852b: 464; 1855, pl. 29, fig. 4a-f (Tahiti; cf. Remark). - Nobili, 1907: 367 ("Rikitea" = Mangareva, Tarauru-Roa) not C. aequabilis Dana, 1852 = C. humilis fide Forest (1953a: 443). - Clibanarius humilis - Forest, 1953a: 443, fig. 1, 5; 1956a: 1057 (Hikueru, Tahiti, Takume). - Monteforte, 1984: 172, annex 1, tab. a (Mataiva). - Rahayu, 1988: 10, 27 (French Polynesia). - Poupin, 1994a: 21, fig. 17 (Moruroa, Tahiti; coll. Frv Marara); 1996a: 16 (Checklist). - Field observation - Nov. 2002, BENTHAUS Expedition, coll. Poupin & Moldostova, det. Poupin (Raevavae, Tubuai); Moorea, coll. Gump/Paulay, photograph G. Paulay. - Remark: Clibanarius aequabilis Dana, 1852 is an Atlantic species. Concerning Dana's material, Forest (1953a: 446) writes: "A quoi correspond le sp. C. aequabilis de Tahiti, figuré par Dana ? Il est souhaitable que le terme d'aequabilis ne soit plus utilisé pour les espèces de l'Indo-Pacifique." - Moorea Biocode project.

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