Decapoda - Brachyura - Macrophthalmidae - Macrophthalmus

Macrophthalmus convexus Stimpson, 1858

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World Distribution
Davie (2012: 158, Memoirs QM) - Widely distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific Ocean from Mauritius, the west coast of Thailand, through Indonesia, and further east to Japan, Hawaii and French
Polynesia. Within Australia M. convexus is found along the north-west coast of Western Australia,
the Northern Territory, and extend ing south along the eatern coast of Queensland to about Shoalwater Bay. Includes New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna, French Polynesia, Society (Bora Bora, Tahiti, Moorea)

Environnement : Brackish - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

Vertical range : Intertidal - Min-Max observed: 0-2 m

New Caledonia data
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Edwards AM, Nouv Arch MNHN 8: 229-267

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
WALLIS & FUTUNA - Macrophthalmus convexus - Poupin & Juncker, in preparation (Wallis). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Macrophthalmus convexus - Ortmann, 1894: 745 (Tahiti). - Forest & Guinot, 1962: 70 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Guinot, 1985: 453 (List). - Poupin, 1996a: 73, 80 (Checklist); 1997: 163, fig. 1c, d, 3c-e, 4-6 (Bora Bora, Tahiti; coll. Frv Marara). - Unpublished sp., coll. BENTHAUS Expedition (Poupin), October 28, 2002, Tahiti, Taravao, seashore at low tide, burrow in mud and sand, det. J. Poupin November 25, 2003 (3 spp. in MNHN collections); Moorea fieldwork December 2006, coll. and det. Poupin, specimens (MNHN) and color photograph, Haapiti mangrove.

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