Central Pacific Crustacea (Decapoda & Stomatopoda)
(French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/

Introduction

This is a database of the species of decapods (shrimps, lobsters, crabs, hermit crabs) and stomatopods (mantis shrimps), recorded from the central Pacific: French Polynesian Islands (Marquesas, Society, Tuamotu, Australs, and Gambier), Pitcairn, Easter Island, and Clipperton. The records have been compiled from a bibliographic research and field collections. Most of them have been already formally published: in Atoll Research Bulletin (Poupin, 1996a, 1998, 2003), in the Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (Résultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM, now continued by Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos), and in Poupin et al. (Clipperton species, in press). The aim of the present work is to update these publications and to complete them with unpublished data and photographs. The Database includes 1260 species and 2117 photographs
- List of the Stomatopoda (47 species, 34 photographs)
- List of the shrimps & lobsters (395 species, 346 photographs)
- List of the Hermit crabs (227 species, 419 photographs)
- List of the crabs (558 species, 1213 photographs)

- Species from French Polynesia (1054 species, 2037 photographs)
- Species from Easter Island (187 species, 183 photographs)
- Species from Clipperton (95 species, 197 photographs)
- Species from Pitcairn (11 species, 25 photographs)
- Species from Wallis & Futuna (156 species, 71 photographs)
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Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/