Petrolisthes moluccensis ( De Man , 1888 )

Werding, Bernd & Hiller, Alexandra, 2007, The Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) of the Red Sea with description of a new species of Petrolisthes, Zootaxa 1460, pp. 1-24 : 13

11. Petrolisthes moluccensis ( De Man, 1888)

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Porcellana ( Petrolisthes) moluccensis De Man, 1888: 411 , pl. 12, fig. 5.

Petrolisthes moluccensis .— Lewinsohn 1969: 136, figs. 28 a–e.— Haig 1979: 122, fig. 3.— Lewinsohn 1979: 43.— Haig 1983: 282; 1987: 12.— Yang 1996: 266, fig. 2.— Hsieh et al. 1998: 317, figs. 23 A–I, 24 A.— Komai 2000: 365.

Material examined. 1 ɗ ( ZMB 19478 a), Sinai coast; 1 ɗ, 4 Ψ ( 1 ov) ( ZMB 22981 b), Red Sea, Gulf of Suez, Tor; 2 ɗ, 1 Ψ ( ZSM 146 / 3), Red Sea, Sinai, Tor, leg. Plate, 1902.

Measurements. Largest ɗ 5.1 x 5.1 mm; largest Ψ 5.3 x 5.3 mm.

Distribution. Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Mauritius, west Australia, Palau Islands, Ryukyu Islands.