Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Brachyura - Dorippidae - Ethusina

Ethusina microspina Chen 2000


Distribution : Castro (2005: 565) - Known from Vanuatu (Chen 2000) and now from the Solomon Is, Fiji, and French Polynesia (Austral Is). Depth: 360-798 m; also collected in a trawl from 840 to 1200 m (Fig. 34).

Selected Reference(s)
Ethusina microspina. - Castro, P., 2005: . - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Austral (Neilson reef, Rapa) - Marine; Deep (360-1200 m); ?Hard bottom.

Regional Records: Ethusina microspina - Castro, 2005: 565, Austral Islands, coll. BENTHAUS Expedition, stn DW 1889, Rapa, 600-620 m, 6 juv. Female (MNHN-B 28831); stn DW 1898, Rapa, 580-820 m, 1 juv. female (MNHN-B 28833); stn CP 1909, Rapa, 783-1000 m, 1 male (MNHN-B 28830; photo); stn CP 1910, 840-1200 m, 1 juv. female, 1 ovig. female (MNHN-B 28835); stn DW 1923, Neilson reef, 360-840 m, 1 juv. female (MNHN-B 28832); stn DW 1943, Raevavae, 950 m, 1 male (MNHN-B 28829); ident. P. Castro at MNHN, September 2003.

Depth distribution: 360 - 1200 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/