Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924

Castro, Peter, 2011, Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947, Zootaxa 2947 (1), pp. 1-154 : 66

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scientific name	Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924
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Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924 View in CoL

Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924: 127 View in CoL , fig. 25 [type locality: Samoa; holotype: USNM 46378 About USNM ].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Libystes villosus Rathbun, 1924 View in CoL — Edmondson 1951: 223, fig. 25 [O‘ahu]; 1954: 226, fig. 4c, d [O‘ahu]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 1999: 157 [O‘ahu].

Remarks. The status of the species of Libystes is in need of revision ( Apel & Spiridonov 1998; Ng 2011).

Although some (e.g. Vannini & Innocenti 2000) regard L. villosus as a junior synonym of L. nitidus A. Milne-

Edwards, 1867, it is a valid species (Ng 2011). The Hawaiian specimens of L. villosus , however, may represent a distinct species (P.K.L. Ng, personal communication).

Taxonomy. Ng (2011)

Geographical distribution. Western Pacific Ocean, Hawaiian Is.

Habitat. Subtidal to 73 m.