Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Neopetrolisthes

Neopetrolisthes ohshimai Miyake, 1937

3 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Society (Tahiti), Japan.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with anemones

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-10 m

New Caledonia data
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Haig J, Musorstom 5, 144: 93-101

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Neopetrolisthes oshimai (sic) - Pardon, 1992: 81 (Tahiti). - Neopetrolisthes maculatus - Haig, 1979: 127 (Syn.). - Poupin, 1996a: 20, 77 (Checklist). - Salvat & Bacchet, 2011: 239, photo, field guide 'Au Vent des Iles Ed. Tahiti - French Polynesia, most often Society (Moorea, Tahiti).
Remark: Some authors, e.g. Haig (1979) have considered that Neopetrolisthes ohshimai Miyake, 1937 is a synonym of Neopetrolisthes maculatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) but the two species are differentiated, and distinct by their color pattern, in a Japanese field guide (Minemizu, 2000: 173). Pardon (1992) illustrates a shrimp Stenopus captured in a sea-anemone. "Neopetrolisthes oshimai" is only indicated in the caption, but is not visible on the photograph. - Field observation, 2006, photograph by P. Bacchet, det. Bacchet/Poupin, Tahiti, outer slope 10-15 m.

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