Menaethius monoceros ( Latreille, 1825 )

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 : 48-49

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2947.1.1
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scientific name	Menaethius monoceros ( Latreille, 1825 )
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Menaethius monoceros ( Latreille, 1825) View in CoL

Pisa monoceros Latreille, 1825: 139 View in CoL [ type locality: Ile-de-France (= Mauritius); type material: status and location unknown].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Menaethius inornatus Dana, 1852b: 125 View in CoL , pl. 5, fig. 3 [ type locality: Maui; type material presumed lost].

Menaethius monoceros ( Latreille, 1825) View in CoL — Rathbun 1906: 880 [O‘ahu, Maui, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals, “Modu Manu” (=Moku Manu, or Nihoa)]. — Edmondson 1923b: 1551, 1553 (as Menatheus [ sic]) [H.I., Kure Atoll]; 1925: 31 [H.I., Kure Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lisianski, Laysan]. — Pesta 1933: 280 [H.I.]. — Griffin & Tranter 1986: 89 [O‘ahu]. — DeFelice et al. 1998: 16 [Midway Is.]. — Coles, DeFelice & Eldredge 2002b: 143 [O‘ahu]. — Coles, Reath, Longenecker, Bolick & Eldredge 2004: 139 [Kaua‘i, Moloka‘i, Maui].

Taxonomy. Griffin & Tranter (1986)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region; introduced to the Mediterranean Sea ( Brockerhoff

& McLay 2011).

Habitat. Intertidal, shallow subtidal to 83 m.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Epialtidae
Genus	Menaethius