Decapoda - Axiidea - Strahlaxiidae - Neaxius

Neaxius acanthus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1878)



World Distribution
Poore & Dworschak (2018, Memoirs Museum Victoria) - Fig. 9, IWP, from Tanzania to New Caledonia. Perhaps also ?French Polynesia (Marquesas) from this database (in situ photo only).
Sakai & de Saint-Laurent (1989 : 31) - Indo-ouest Pacifique. Madagascar, Glorieuses, Maurice, Australie (Murray I., détroit de Torrès), Nouvelle-Calédonie, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée (New Britain), Mariannes (Saipan). ABRS : Australie (Queensland). Indonésie (Célèbes ; cf. commentaires). Plus Réunion, premier signalement à confirmer par l'examen de spécimens.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-26 m

Mayotte data
Axius acanthus var. mauritianus - Fourmanoir, 1955 : 27 (Mayotte, herbier, Mohéli, Anjouan ; 0,7-1,1 m "difficile à capturer dans son tunnel creusé dans le sable, très abondant"). - Neaxius acanthus - Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989: 30, Grande Glorieuse [coll. A. Crosnier 30 January 1971, 20 m]. - Unpublished, Mayotte, Mission KUW novembre 2009, st. 5, 1 spécimen Lc = 11,5 mm, Lt = 29,0 mm, photographies, dét. Poupin/Ngoc-Ho, MNHN Th1564 ; st. 26, 1 mâle Lc = 22,7 mm, Lt = 58,0 mm, dét. Ngoc-Ho, MNHN Th1565. - Poore & Dworschak, 2018: 17, Mayotte, sp. From KUW 2009, IU-2014-22789, (Th1565) (1 individual); IU-2014-22790 (Th1564) (1 individual), also Glorieuses, same as Sakai & de Saint Laurent (1989), Grande Glorieuse Island, MNHN, IU-2016-8072 (Th451) (1 individual).

Réunion data
Neaxius acanthus - Photo A. Diringer, mai 2009, det. P. Dworschak "most probably this species" (suite mission Poupin, avril 2008).

New Caledonia data
Neaxius acanthus - Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989: 30, New Caledonia. - Ngoc-Ho, 2005: 59, New Caledonia [MNHN Th812, 190]. - Poore & Dworschak, 2018: 17, Lectotype of Axia acantha. New Caledonia.MNHN IU-2014-11315 (Th812) (female, tl 72 mm, dry). Paralectotype, MNHN IU-2014-11316 (Th190) (male, cl 27 mm); also New Caledonia. IU-2016-8080 (Th511*) (13 individuals), Bourail, IU-2016-8074 (Th1488) (1 individual). Ouano Plage, IU-2014-22791 (Th1486) (1 individual).
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Dworschak P, Compendium of marine species from New Caledonia, Vol II7: 305-307

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Neaxius acanthus - AAMP, Marquesas, 2012, photo in situ Evans, det. Poupin, Leg 2, St 3, Nuku Hiva, 10 m, ?St 43, Ua Pou, 26 m.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database