Data for selected species
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Stomatopoda - Stomatopoda - Gonodactylidae - Gonodactylus

Gonodactylus platysoma Wood-Mason, 1895



Selected Reference(s)
Gonodactylus platysoma. - Poupin, J., 1998: 34. - French Polynesia
Gonodactylus platysoma. - Ahyong, S. T., 2002: 369. - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Marquesas; Society (Bora Bora, Moorea, Raiatea, Tahiti); Tuamotu (Raroia, Tikehau) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; Hard bottom (rubble); ?Burrower.

Regional Records: Gonodactylus platysoma Wood-Mason, 1895: 11, pl. 3, fig. 3-9 (Society Islands). - Gonodactylus chiragra var. acutus Lanchester - Edmonson, 1921: 300 (Marquesas). - Gonodactylus chiragra var. tumidus - Boone,1934: 11, pl. 1, 2b, part (Bora Bora, Raiatea; see Manning, 1967c). - Gonodactylus chiragra var. platysoma - Kemp, 1913: 162 (Society Islands; Wood-Mason's material). - Bigelow: 1931: 119 (Bora Bora). - Holthuis, 1953: 62 (Raroia). - Morrison, 1954: 13 (Raroia). - Gonodactylus platysoma - Manning, 1967c: 103 (Bora Bora, Raiatea; Boone's material); 1995: 20, 69, 75, pl. 9, 10, fig. 9d, 10b, 11b, 27b, 31 (List & key; "type locality Society Islands, 17°00'S, 150°00'W"). - Ghosh & Manning, 1988: 654 (Selection of a lectotype from Society Island in the collections of Zoological Surey of India, Calcutta). - Müller, 1994: 40 (Syn.; with "Moorea" in the Distribution). - Gosliner et al., 1996: 196 (Photograph R. Caldwell 701). - Poupin, 1998: 34 (Checklist). - Ahyong, 2001: 71, fig. 35 (Tikehau); 2002: 369 (Checklist). - Caldwell observation, Moorea "rubble, reef crest to back reef, common". - Field observation, 2006, photograph by P. Bacchet, det. Bacchet/Ahyong, Tahiti, outer reef subsurface.


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



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