Decapoda - Achelata - Palinuridae - Panulirus
Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804) |
World Distribution
(Holthuis, 1991: 156) - Indo-West Pacific from Red Sea and eastern Africa to Japan and French Polynesia. Including, Mayotte, Seychelles, Réunion, Europa, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-10 m
Mayotte data
Panulirus versicolor - Fourmanoir, 1955 : 28 (Comores). - Mission KUW novembre 2009, st. 9, Passe en S, 1-20 m ; st. 28, Ilot Mbouini, Est, 3-20 m ; photos in situ seulement. - Photo Matthias Deuss - Mayotte, tombant de Mtsanga Tsoha, commune de Mtzamboro, 01/09/09, 10m ; photo Claude Philippon, lagon de nuit ; photo Marc Allaria, lagon de nuit ; photo Benjamin Pineau, lagon de nuit ; photo Vincent Dinhut, lagon ; photo Norbert Verneau, Mayotte, Herbier à Saziley, sous un corail mort, 3 m (couleur d'un juvénile). - Expedition Glorieuses December 2012 (new record), st. BIO 23 (juvenile). - Expedition Juan de Nova December 2013, st. 0, from movie Sébastien Lauriol, dive, st. x (photo S. Andrefouet) (nr), outer-reef
Europa data
Panulirus versicolor - Europa, BIOTAS collections, specimens MEPA-00055, st. EURO-1, det. J. Poupin d'après photos, coloration de juvénile. Premier signalement.
Réunion data
Panulirus versicolor - Mission Poupin, avril 2008 (Détermination d'après photographie de F. Trentin). - Coll. BIOLAVE, 22/12/2010, shallow-waters, divers 10-30 m, pre-det. J. Poupin based on color photo, 9/01/2013.
New Caledonia data
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Richer de Forges B & Laboute P, Etudes & Theses 2: 45-82
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Panulirus versicolor - Poupin & Juncker, in preparation (Alofi). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - ? Panulirus fasciatus - Cano, 1888: 179 (Tahiti; cf. Remark). - Panulirus ornatus - Boone, 1935: 63, pl. 16 (Tahiti). - Poupin, 1994a: 8 (French Polynesia; after Boone and erroneously after Nobili, 1907 and Gruvel, 1991) - Not Palinurus ornatus (Fabricius, 1798) (cf. Remark). - Panulirus versicolor - Holthuis, 1946: 142, pl. 6-j, pl. 9-b, pl. 11-e,f,m (Tahiti); 1991: 156, fig. 293-294 (French Polynesia). - Poupin, 1996a: 10 (Checklist). - Remark: In Holthuis (1991: 152) Panulirus fasciatus Fabricius, 1798 is a synonym of P. polyphagus (Herbst, 1793). However, Cano's (1888) reference to P. fasciatus would rather be P. versicolor, often recorded under P. fasciatus (Holthuis, 1991: 152) an in his 1991 catalogue Holthuis does not mention P. polyphagus from French Polynesia. According Holthuis (1946: 140, 142), Boone's (1935) Tahitian record of Panulirus ornatus (Fabricius, 1798) would be erroneous, but it is not certain that his material really belongs to P. versicolor.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database