Decapoda - Anomura - Coenobitidae - Coenobita

Coenobita brevimanus Dana, 1852

11 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
(Nakasone, 1987: 174) - Indo-West Pacific. Includes Tanzania, Madagascar, Comoros, Glorieuses, Seychelles, Christmas, Cocos, Taiwan, Japan, Line Islands, Papua New-Guinea, Salomon, New Caledonia, Loyalty, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna, Fiji, Samoa, Cook, French Polynesia.

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

Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-5 m

Mayotte data
Coenobita brevimanus Dana, 1852 - Vuillemin, 1970 : 235 (Côte ouest de Grande Comore). - Expedition Glorieuses December 2012 (new record), st. coconut grove at night. - Tromelin, photo, Florent Bignon (TAAF), novembre 2017, transmitted December 2019 by Maxime Amy, TAAF Réunion.
Coenobita brevimanus - Mayotte, field observation Jacques Rochat February 2023, forest near Bonne-Marée place (photo of chela only, most probably C. brevimanus, det. J. Poupin, to be confirmed). - with these comments: pas rares la nuit dans les zones forestières à quelques centaines de mètres de la mer; coordonnées de l'observation: (UTM 38L) 521163 E, 8579242 S, altitude env. 50m, observation le 25/02/2023 21h15.

Réunion data
Coenobita brevimanus - Baglan et al., 2020: 33, Réunion, anse Cascade, Piton Ste Rose, seulement d'après les photo de Wilson Voisin qui montrent le pédoncule oculaire à section circulaire caractéristique. To be confirmed with specimen(s).

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
WALLIS & FUTUNA - Coenobita brevimanus - Poupin & Juncker, in preparation (Alofi, Futuna). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Cenobita clypeata Latr. - Heller, 1865: 82 (Tahiti). - Seurat, 1934: 52 (Amanu, Hao). - Coenobita clypeatus (Herbst) - Ortmann, 1892a: 316, pl. 12, fig 20 (Tahiti) not C. clypeatus (Herbst, 1794) C. hilgendorfi Terao in Terao (1913: 388). - Coenobita clypeatus Latr. - Nobili, 1907: 373 (Amanu, "Ohura" = Hao). - Sendler, 1923: 42 (Makatea, "Nian" = Niau). - Coenobita hilgendorfi Terao, 1913: 388 (Syn.; cf. Remark). - Forest, 1954a: 77 (Hikueru; Syn.); 1956a: 1072 (Hikueru, Tahiti). - Cenobita clypeatus Latreille - Boone, 1935: 40, pl. 9 (Bora Bora). - Coenobita brevimanus - Holthuis, 1953: 36 (Raroia). - Morrison, 1954: 10 (Raroia). - Monteforte, 1984: 172, annex 1, tab. a (Makatea, Mataiva, Takapoto). - Salvat, 1986b: 72 (French Polynesia). - Nakasone, 1988: 174 (Syn.). - Merschardt-Salvat, 1991: 40 (Nukutipipi). - Salvat F. & B., 1992: 5 (Nukutipipi). - Poupin, 1994a: 11, fig. 7, pl. 1c (Hikueru, Tahiti, Taiaro); 1996a: 12 (Checklist). - McLaughlin & Dworschak, 2002: 138 (Tahiti; Heller specimens reexamined in Wien Museum). - Coenobita ollivieri (sic) - Charleux, 1986: 80-81, photograph (French Polynesia) not C. olivieri (Owen, 1839) = C. brevimanus (correction according to the photograph) - Field observation - April 1997, J. Poupin ('Faucon' point, Moruroa). - Remark: In Terao (1913: 389) Coenobita clypeatus (Herbst, 1794) is different from Coenobita clypeatus (Latreille, 1826), and the name Coenobita hilgendorfi is proposed for Latreille's material. More recently, Nakasone (1988) considers that Terao's (1913) C. hilgendorfi is the same than C. brevimanus Dana, 1852, and states that, until 1955, Dana's species has been often referred to as, either C. clypeatus, or C. hilgendorfi.

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