Decapoda - Anomura - Diogenidae - Calcinus

Calcinus argus Wooster, 1984

4 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Poupin (2003, Internet) - Indo-ouest Pacifique. Ile Cocos Keeling, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie occidentale, Mariannes, Hawaii. Comprend, Réunion

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with corals (facultative)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-15 m

Réunion data
Calcinus argus - Mission Poupin, avril 2008 (D'après photographies, programme BIOTAS, E. Lancelot). - Réunion, Coll. BIOLAVE, 27/11/2011, det. Poupin and det. in situ Stephanie Bollard, 30/11/2011, dive in shallow-waters 10-30 mn.

New Caledonia data
Nouvelle Caledonie, PLG — Poupin J, Zoosystema 25, 4: 643-664. Photos E. Tardy, Voh, New Caledonia.

Comment(s) on data
New family Calcinidae Fraaije, Van Bakel & Jagt, 2017, replaces Diogenidae. Calcinidae unaccepted in Poore & Ahyong (2023) (also WoRMS 2023)

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database