Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Thalamita
| Thalamita minuscula Nobili, 1906 |
World Distribution
Boyko & Liguori (2014, Pac. Sc.) - Tuamotu (Kaukura and Vahitahi) (type localities, Nobili 1906); Ambon, Indonesia (tentative); Easter Island (tentative).
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-5 m
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
?EASTER ISLAND - Thalamita cf. minuscula - Boyko & Liguori, 2014: 572, Pac. Sc., Easter Island: lacm MBPC13477, 8 juveniles (smallest 3.3 by 2.6 mm, largest 4.5 by 3.2 mm), coll. L. H. DiSalvo, 1985 or 1986. usnm 1226911, 1 juvenile (2.9 by 2.8 mm), freshwater pool, stone basin between moai and tide pool, Tongariki, coll. C. B. Boyko, 22 August 1999 (with this remark: They may represent juveniles of T. seurati).
FRENCH POLYNESIA - Thalamita minuscula Nobili, 1906a: 262; 1907: 386, pl. 1, fig. 15 (Kaukura, Vahitahi). - Forest & Guinot, 1962: 60 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Stephenson, 1972: 49 (List with "Only from Tuamotu Is."). - Poupin, 1996a: 35, 77, 78 (Checklist). - Thalamita (Neothalamita) minuscula - Guinot, 1985: 449 (List; subgenus from Moosa, 1979: 43). - Remark: very small species (maximum width, 4mm), never recorded since its description; could be a juvenile of an another species ?
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database