Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Brachyura - Xanthidae - Pilodius

Pilodius areolatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)


Distribution : (Davie, 2002: 523) - IWP from South and East Africa, Australia, to Mangareva, French Polynesia. Includes Wallis & Futuna

Selected Reference(s)
Pilodius areolatus. - Forest, J. and Guinot, D., 1961: 90. - French Polynesia
Pilodius areolatus. - Poupin, J. and Juncker, M., 2008: . - Wallis

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Wallis & Futuna (Futuna, Wallis); Gambier (Mangareva); Society (Bora Bora, Moorea, Tahiti); Tuamotu (Fangataufa, Hikueru, Makemo, Marutea South, Mataiva, Moruroa, Rangiroa, Raroia) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; ?Hard bottom.

Regional Records: WALLIS & FUTUNA - Pilodius areolatus - Poupin & Juncker, in preparation (Futuna, Wallis). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Actaeodes affinis Dana, 1852a: 78; 1852b: 197; 1855, pl. 11, fig. 3 (Tahiti, Tuamotu). - Actaea affinis - Rathbun, 1907: 42 (Makemo). - Chlorodopsis areolata - Nobili, 1907: 396, pl. 2, fig. 3 (Hikueru, "Rikitea" = Mangareva, Marutea South). - Holthuis, 1953: 15 (Raroia). - Morrison, 1954: 13 (Raroia). - Pilodius areolatus - Forest & Guinot, 1961: 90 (Hikueru, Tahiti); 1962: 66 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Monteforte, 1984: 171, annex 1, tab. a (Mataiva). - Guinot, 1985: 451 (List). - Clark & Galil, 1993: 1125, fig. 1a-g, 31a, 40a, 44b (Bora Bora, "Maharepa, Afareaitu, Temae" = Moorea; Syn.). - Poupin, 1996a: 55 (Checklist) - New material - MNHN B16124 (Fangataufa); coll. Frv Marara, det. J. Poupin (Moruroa). - Unpublished specimens, coll. & det. G. Paulay, Rangiroa, October 13, 2001, ca. 1 km S. of NW point of atoll, off Motu Maeherehonae (FLMNH-UF 1439); Tahiti (FLMNH-UF 1636). - 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/