Decapoda - Brachyura - Pilumnidae - Actumnus

Actumnus globulus Heller, 1861



World Distribution
Galil et al. (2006) - Red Sea and the East African coast as far south as Mozambique, plus Mediterranea as an alien species. Record from French Polynesia (in Nobili, 1907) attributed to A. digitalis.

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-5 m

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Actumnus globulus - Nobili, 1907: 400 ("Ohura" = Hao, Hikueru; cf. thereafter). - Forest & Guinot, 1962: 70 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Guinot, 1969: 226 (writes about Nobili's work: "par contre il est bien possible que les "globulus" polynésiens de Nobili (1907, p. 50 sic) soient en fait des digitalis"); 1985: 452 (List). - Poupin, 1996a: 61, 77 (Checklist) - Relevant material - ? Actumnus sp. - Monteforte, 1984: 170, annex 1, tab. a (Makatea). - Guinot, 1985: 452 (list). - Remark - See Galil et al. (2006) for these authors A. globulus distribution is restricted to West Indian Ocean and Mediterranea; record from French Polynesia by Nobili (1907) is assigned to A. globulus.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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