Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Charybdis
| Charybdis orientalis Dana, 1852 |
World Distribution
Apel & Spiridonov (1998 : 208) - Eastern Africa, South Africa, Madagascar, Réunion, Red Sea, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapour, Philippines, China, Japan, Australia. Also ?French Polynesia.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-59 m
Réunion data
Goniosoma dubium - Hoffman, 1874 : 11 (Réunion). - Charybdis (Charybdis) orientalis - Apel & Spiridonov, 1998 : 206 (Réunion dans le matériel examiné, coll. PL.L. Pollen & D.C. van Dam, 2 mâles, syntypes de Goniosoma dubium Hoffman, 1874, RMNH D477).
New Caledonia data
Lagon 9 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW586 — Moosa MK.
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Charybdis (Charybdis) orientalis - Leene, 1938: 69 (Society; cf. Remark). - Poupin, 1996a: 31 (Checklist). - Remark: Although Leene (1938) does not mention clearly the location "Society", she indicates that F. Chace has examined, for her, in the USNM collections, a male from the Society islands attributed to C. orientalis (confronted with the type specimen).
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database