Trapezia digitalis Latreille, 1828

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 : 80

Trapezia digitalis Latreille, 1828

Trapezia digitalis Latreille, 1828: 696 [type locality: Red Sea; neotype: MNHN-B13927 ].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Grapsillus digitalis (Latreille, 1828) — Rathbun 1906: 866 [O‘ahu].

Trapezia digitalis Latreille, 1828 — Edmondson 1925: 41 [Laysan, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 301 [H.I.]; 1962a: 217, 302, fig. 31e [H.I.]. — Barry 1965: 23 [O‘ahu]. — Brock et al. 1965: 14 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Preston 1973: 470, fig. 1–4 [H.I.]. — Amerson & Shelton 1976: 76 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Huber 1985b: 24 [O‘ahu]; 1985c: 21 [O‘ahu]; 1987a: 239 [O‘ahu]; 1987b: 509 [O‘ahu]. — Coles 1986: 309, 311 [H.I.]. — Huber & Coles 1986: 23 [O‘ahu]. — Castro 1998: 73 [H.I.]. — Coles et al. 2001: 53 [ Johnston Atoll]. — Coles, Eldredge, Kandel, Reath & Logenecker 2004: 64 [Hawai‘i]. — Hoover 2006: 283, color photograph [O‘ahu]. — Coles et al. 2008: 63 [Moloka‘i]. — Coles & Swenson 2010: 88 [Moloka‘i].

Taxonomy. Serène (1984), Castro (1997a, 1998), Castro et al. (2004)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific and Tropical Eastern Pacific regions.

Habitat. Symbiont of scleractinian reef corals ( Pocillopora and other pocilloporids); shallow subtidal to 52 m.