Decapoda - Brachyura - Dromiidae - Stebbingdromia

Stebbingdromia plumosa (Lewinsohn, 1984)

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World Distribution
Guinot & Tavares (2003, Zoosystema) - Stebbingdromia plumosa n. comb., the only species in the genus, is found from the Seychelles Islands (type locality) to Chesterfield Islands (New Caledonia), Guam and Hawaii. See also Castro (2011, Zootaxa) for Hawaiian Is. records, 15-55 m.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with sponges

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 15-55 m

Mayotte data
Stebbingdromia plumosa (Lewinsohn, 1984)
Material Examined — Mayotte KUW 2009, st. 23, Passe Choizil, "Patate à Teddy", 15-30 m, 1 M 4.9 x 5.2 mm, MNHN-IU-2009-3227, det. J. Poupin October 2011 (checked by D. Guinot MNHN, 10/10/2011).
Distribution — IWP, Mayotte (this work), Seychelles to New Caledonia, Hawaii; shallow subtidal, 15-55 m.

New Caledonia data
Guinot et al., 2013: 282, Zootaxa - Stebbingdromia plumosa (Lewinsohn, 1984), male 11.3 × 13.3 mm, Chesterfield Is. (MNHN-B22562);
As Cryptodromiopsis plumosa
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Guinot D & Tavares M, Zoosystema 25, 1.
Corail 2 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW84 — McLay CL, Musorstom 10, 156: 111-251

Comment(s) on data
Hawaii, photo in Hoover (1999, p. 266).

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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