Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Brachyura - Leucosiidae - Heteronucia

Heteronucia venusta Nobili, 1906


Distribution : French Polynesia, Japan, Guam.

Selected Reference(s)
Heteronucia venusta. - Nobili, G., 1906a: 260. - French Polynesia
Heteronucia venusta. - Nobili, G., 1907: 379, pl. 5, fig. 14. - French Polynesia
Nucia gelida. - Rathbun, M. J., 1907: 68, pl. 5, fig. 4, pl. 9, fig. 2. [N. gelida Rathbun, 1907, junior synonym of H. venusta Nobili; cf. Forest & Guinot, 1961] - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Society (Moorea); Tuamotu (Fakahina, Fakarava, Hao, Tikehau) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; ?Coral facultative associate; Hard bottom.

Regional Records: Heteronucia venusta Nobili, 1906a: 260; 1907: 379, pl. 1, fig. 14 ("Ohura" = Hao). - Forest & Guinot, 1961: 13, fig. 3a-b, 4, pl. 5, fig. 1-2 (Fakahina; Syn.); 1962: 56 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Peyrot-Clausade, 1977a, annex of the species: 25; 1977b: 212 (Moorea); 1989: 113 (Tikehau). - Guinot, 1985: 453 (List). - Poupin, 1996a: 26 (Checklist). - Nucia gelida Rathbun, 1907: 68, pl. 5, fig. 4, pl. 9, fig. 2 (Fakarava). - Guinot, 1985: 453 (List). - Nagai & Nomura, 1988: 122 (Okinawa, plus photographs). - Starmer, Internet (Guam, plus photographs, http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/reefs/guam/guamimg/crustacea/crusties/Pages/Image56.html).

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/