Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Thalamita

Thalamita auauensis Rathbun, 1906



World Distribution
Boyko & Liguori (2014, Pac. Sc.) - China; Philippines; Marianas; Samoa; Hawai‘i (type locality); Ogasawara Islands, Japan (Komatsu 2011); Easter Island. - Also Pitcairn from Stephenson (1976) and probably French Polynesia.

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 23-335 m

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
EASTER ISLAND - Thalamita auauensis - Boyko & Liguori, 2014: 569, Pac. Sc., Easter Island: lacm MBPC13473, 1 ovigerous female (12.9 by 7.3 mm), “A5486, VI-86-18” = Motu Iti, 60 m depth, coll. L. H. DiSalvo, February 1986. lacm MBPC13474, 1 female (14.1 by 9.9 mm), 1 juvenile (7.8 by 5.1 mm), “IVb861430” = infaunal in Pocillopora head, off Hanga Roa, 30 m depth, coll. L. H. Di-Salvo, February 1986. usnm 1226914, 1 male (18.4 by 11.2 mm), north of Ahu Tepeu in coral head, 32.92 m depth, coll. H. Tonnemacher, August 1999.
?FRENCH POLYNESIA - Thalamita auauensis - Stephenson, 1976: 20 (Pitcairn Is., coral stone, rubble, 48-65 m). ?French Polynesia.

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