Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Dendrobranchiata - Luciferidae - Lucifer

Lucifer typus H. Milne Edwards, 1837



Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Gambier (Mangareva); Society (Tahiti) - Marine; Planktonic; Pelagic

Regional Records: Lucifer reynaudii - BATE, 1888: 466 (Tahiti). - Lucifer batei Borradaile, 1915: 228 (BATE's material). - Lucifer typus - NOBILI, 1907: 352, pl. 1, fig. 1 (Mangareva). - HANSEN, 1919: 49 (Syn.). - POUPIN, 1998: 6 (Checklist). - SYNONYM - Lucifer batei Borradaile, 1915 (Lucifer reynaudii H. Milne Edwards, 1837 is a species Incertae sedis, see HANSEN, 1919: 49 "...the name L. Reynaudii ought to be dropped").

Depth distribution: 10 - 100 m

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/