Distribution & Ecology: Wallis & Futuna (Alofi, Futuna); Society (Bora Bora, Tahiti); Tuamotu (Amanu, Hao, Hikueru, Makatea, Mataiva, Moruroa, Niau, Nukutipipi, Raroia, Takapoto, Taiaro) - Terrestrial.

Regional Records: WALLIS & FUTUNA - Coenobita brevimanus - Poupin & Juncker, in preparation (Alofi, Futuna). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Cenobita clypeata Latr. - Heller, 1865: 82 (Tahiti). - Seurat, 1934: 52 (Amanu, Hao). - Coenobita clypeatus (Herbst) - Ortmann, 1892a: 316, pl. 12, fig 20 (Tahiti) not C. clypeatus (Herbst, 1794) C. hilgendorfi Terao in Terao (1913: 388). - Coenobita clypeatus Latr. - Nobili, 1907: 373 (Amanu, "Ohura" = Hao). - Sendler, 1923: 42 (Makatea, "Nian" = Niau). - Coenobita hilgendorfi Terao, 1913: 388 (Syn.; cf. Remark). - Forest, 1954a: 77 (Hikueru; Syn.); 1956a: 1072 (Hikueru, Tahiti). - Cenobita clypeatus Latreille - Boone, 1935: 40, pl. 9 (Bora Bora). - Coenobita brevimanus - Holthuis, 1953: 36 (Raroia). - Morrison, 1954: 10 (Raroia). - Monteforte, 1984: 172, annex 1, tab. a (Makatea, Mataiva, Takapoto). - Salvat, 1986b: 72 (French Polynesia). - Nakasone, 1988: 174 (Syn.). - Merschardt-Salvat, 1991: 40 (Nukutipipi). - Salvat F. & B., 1992: 5 (Nukutipipi). - Poupin, 1994a: 11, fig. 7, pl. 1c (Hikueru, Tahiti, Taiaro); 1996a: 12 (Checklist). - McLaughlin & Dworschak, 2002: 138 (Tahiti; Heller specimens reexamined in Wien Museum). - Coenobita ollivieri (sic) - Charleux, 1986: 80-81, photograph (French Polynesia) not C. olivieri (Owen, 1839) = C. brevimanus (correction according to the photograph) - Field observation - April 1997, J. Poupin ('Faucon' point, Moruroa). - Remark: In Terao (1913: 389) Coenobita clypeatus (Herbst, 1794) is different from Coenobita clypeatus (Latreille, 1826), and the name Coenobita hilgendorfi is proposed for Latreille's material. More recently, Nakasone (1988) considers that Terao's (1913) C. hilgendorfi is the same than C. brevimanus Dana, 1852, and states that, until 1955, Dana's species has been often referred to as, either C. clypeatus, or C. hilgendorfi.