Decapoda - Brachyura - Varunidae - Pseudohelice

Pseudohelice subquadrata (Dana, 1851)

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World Distribution
MASDEA/AfReMas (Internet, sous Helice leachii), ABRS (Internet) - Red Sea, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Seychelles (Aldabra), Comoros (Mayotte), Madagascar, Mauritius, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Japan, Philippines, Eastern Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, French Polynesia (Society, Tahiti).

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

Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-5 m

Mayotte data
Pseudohelice subquadrata (Dana, 1851)
Material examined — See Bouchard et al., 2013: 29, fig. 24 - Mayotte KUW 2009, st. 13, Malamani mangrove, coll. J. -M. Bouchard, 12/12/2008 (st. C1/echant 3, dans la haut de la tanne), 12°55'07" S, 45°09'07" E, 2 MM 11.3 x 13 mm, 11.7 x 13.8 mm, 1 F 11.0 x 13.5 mm, MNHN B-32363, MNHN-IU-2009-1136.
Other records — Bouchard, 2009: 6, 28 Mayotte, same spp. than KUW 2009.
Remarks — Often reported in WIO as Helice leachii Hess, 1865, a junior synonym (WoRMS, 2018).
Geographic and depth ranges — IWP, Red Sea, Mayotte (this work), Tanzania to Japan, French Polynesia; supratidal, land.

New Caledonia data
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Ng P.K.L & Richer de Forges B., Compendium of marine species from New Caledonia, Vol II7: 315-332

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Chasmagnathus subquadratus - Ortmann, 1894: 728 (Tahiti). - Forest & Guinot, 1962: 72 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Guinot, 1985: 453 (List). - Poupin, 1996a: 69, 77 (Checklist). - Remark: Species described by par Dana (1851: 251) from an uncertain locality "Novi-Zealandiae ? Novi-Hollandiae orientalis ?".

Comment(s) on data
Helice leachii Hess, 1865 is a synonym of Pseudohelice subquadrata - Davie, P. (2010). Pseudohelice subquadrata (Dana, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ttp://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=444752 on 2010-09-30

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database