Macrophthalmus banzai Wada & K. Sakai, 1989

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Macrophthalmus banzai Wada & K. Sakai, 1989

Macrophthalmus banzai Wada & K Sakai, 1989: 133 , figs. 1, 2; Davie 1992a: 348 [key]; SY Lee and Leung 1999: 73.

Taxonomy: Wada and K Sakai (1989), Shih et al. (2015).

Type: Holotype ò SMF 17923 , and paratypes in SMF, SMBL, USNM, MNHN, RMNH and AM.

Type locality: Samusaura, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan.

Distribution: East Asia: coasts of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

Habitat: Intertidal; waterlogged substrates on mudflats.

Macrophthalmus convexus Stimpson, 1858 #

Macrophthalmus convexus — Gordon 1931: 528; Shen 1940a: 235; Barnes 1970: 222; Morton 1976: 103; Bones 1982: 689, pl. 2a, b; Melville and Morton 1983: 11, 1 unnumb. fig. (12); Morton and Morton 1983: 156; Davie 1992a: 348 [key]; SY Lee 1993: tab. 1; Poupin 1997: fig. 3E; SY Lee and Leung 1999: 73; Bravo et al. 2021: tab. 2.

Macrophthalmus spp. — Fong et al. 2005: 52, 3 unnumb. figs.

Taxonomy: Komai et al. (1995), Davie (2012), Shih et al. (2015).

Type: Probably lost.

Type locality: Ryukyu Islands (as Loo Choo Isles), Japan.

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to Central Pacific: from Mauritius, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, South China Sea and East Asia, to Indonesia, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, French Polynesia and Hawaii ( Shih et al. 2015).

Habitat: Intertidal; in shallow burrows on sandy-muddy substrates.