Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Petrolisthes

Petrolisthes elegans Haig, 1981




Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Society (Moorea, Tahiti); Tuamotu (Fakarava). Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; Hard bottom

Regional Records: Petrolisthes bosci - Nobili, 1907: 377 ("Sakarava" = Fakarava) not P. bosci (Audouin, 1826) = P. elegans sp. nov. in Haig (1981: 265). - Petrolisthes elegans Haig, 1981: 266, fig. 2 (Tahiti, "Sakarava" = Fakarava). - Peyrot-Clausade, 1989: 115 (Moorea). - Poupin, 1996a: 21 (Checklist).


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/