Distribution : Crosnier (1988); Hanamura & Takeda (1987); Poupin (1994, 1996, 1998); Burukovsky (1990) - Worldwide: Western and Eastern tropical Atlantic; Indo-West Pacific: Indian Ocean, New Caledonia, Northwest Australia, Japan, Hawaii, French Polynesia; Seamounts Sala y Gòmez and south-western part of Nazca ridge, 23°26'-25°33' S - 83°20'-98°14' W - Deep (302-1156 m)
Selected Reference(s) Heterocarpus laevigatus. -
Crosnier, A., 1988b: 74. - French Polynesia
Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)Distribution & Ecology: Sala y Gomez; Austral (Rapa, Tubuai); Gambier; Marquesas; Society (Bellingshausen=Motu One, Huahine, Tahiti); Tuamotu (Fangataufa, Moruroa) - Marine; Deep (410-1050m; mostly 500-800m).
Regional Records: EASTER ISLAND - Heterocarpus laevigatus - Burukovsky, 1986: 62 (Sala y Gòmez; and cf. Crosnier, 1988: 75, 26° S - 105° W). - Burukovsky, 1990: 199 (Seamounts Sala y Gòmez and south-western part of Nazca ridge, 23°26'-25°33' S - 83°20'-98°14' W; 300-800 m). - Parin et al., 1997: 162, tab. 3 (List of Decapoda for the Nazca and Sala y Gòmez submarine ridges). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Heterocarpus laevigatus - Crosnier, 1986a: 362 (Tahiti, Tubuai; coll. Frv Marara, fr); 1988b: 74 (Tubuai). - Poupin et al., 1990: 16, 37, fig. 5, 6, 7, 9, pl. 1e (French Polynesia). - Poupin, 1996b: 8, pl. 3b (Bellingshausen = Motu One, Fangataufa, Gambier, Huahine, Marquesas, Moruroa, Rapa, Tubuai; 410-1050m); 1998: 27 (Checklist).
Depth distribution: 410 - 1050 m
References : compilation of references cited in Poupin (1996, 1998, 2003) and Poupin et al. (2009) -
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