Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Petrolisthes

Petrolisthes tomentosus (Dana, 1852)


Distribution : (Osawa, 2007: 29) - Indo-West Pacific, Somalia and Madagascar to Western Australia, Taiwan and Palau, New Caledonia to Tuamotu. 0-11 m

Selected Reference(s)
Porcellana tomentosa. - Dana, J. D., 1852b: 420. - French Polynesia
Porcellana tomentosa. - Kropp, R. K., 1986: 453, fig. 1. [Neotype selected in USNM collections] - French Polynesia

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

Regional Records: Porcellana tomentosa Dana, 1852b: 420; 1855, pl. 26, fig. 10 (Raraka). - Petrolisthes tomentosus - Kropp, 1986: 453, fig. 1 (Tahiti, Tahitian neotype at the USNM; Syn.). - Poupin, 1996a: 22 (Checklist). - Unpublished specimens, coll. & det. G. Paulay, Rangiroa, November 10, 2001, ca. 1 km S. of NW point of atoll off Motu Maeherehonae (FLMNH-UF 1626), Moorea, October 22, 2001, E. wall of Passe Taotai (FLMNH-UF 1573). - Moorea Biocode project.

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/