Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Brachyura - Xanthidae - Etisus

Etisus electra (Herbst, 1801)


Distribution : (Serène, 1984: 228): large indo-west-pacific distribution; Red Sea, South Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Mozambique, French Polynesia, Easter Island. - Littoral

Selected Reference(s)
Etisus electra. - Monteforte, M., 1984: 170, annex 1, tab. a. - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Easter Island; Austral (Rapa); Gambier (Mangareva); Society (Tahiti); Tuamotu (Fakarava, Hikueru, Marutea South, Moruroa) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; Coral facultative associate; Hard bottom.

Regional Records: EASTER ISLAND - Etisus electra - Garth, 1973: 320 (Easter Island, Anakena Bay). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Etisus rugosus Jacquinot, 1852, pl. 4, fig. 2. - Jacquinot & Lucas, 1853: 33 (Mangareva). - Etisodes electra - Nobili, 1907: 390 (Hikueru, "Rikitea" = Mangareva, Marutea South) pro parte cf. Rathbun, 1907: 42 (Fakarava). - Forest & Guinot, 1961: 89, fig. 82a-b (Tahiti); 1962: 66 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Guinot, 1985: 450 (List). - Etisus electra - Monteforte, 1984: 170, annex 1, tab. a (Tahiti). - Serène, 1984: 228 (Syn.). - Poupin, 1996a: 52 (Checklist) - New material - Coll. & det. J. Poupin (Moruroa). - Unpublished sp. - Austral, Rapa Island, Haurei bay, coll. BENTHAUS Expedition (Warén), November 8, 2002, det. J. Poupin November 25, 2003 (1 sp. in MNHN). - Remark: Guinot (1964: 54) indicates that the material from Hikueru, attributed by Nobili to E. electra, includes in fact three species: Etisus electra, E. frontalis (Dana, 1852), and E. aff. bifrontalis (Edmonson, 1935).

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