Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Portunus
| Portunus hawaiiensis Stephenson, 1968 |
World Distribution
Catro (2011, Zootaxa) - Hawaii & French Polynesia, subtidal
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-10 m
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Callinectes alexandri Rathbun, 1907: 61, pl. 2, fig. 1, pl. 9, fig. 3, 3a-b (Tahiti). - Guinot, 1985: 449 (List). - Poupin, 1996a: 31, 77, 78 (Checklist). - Remark: This portunid has been described from Tahiti, with a paratype from "Suva, Fidjis". According to Stephenson (1976: 13), it is in fact a non-identifiable Portunus. In Ng et al. 2008, list brachyura it is a synonym of P. sanguinolentus.
Neptunus sanguinolentus - Chabouis L. & F., 1954: 91, fig. 9 (French Polynesia). - Portunus sanguinolentus - Forest & Guinot, 1961: 29, fig. 17a-b, 18 (Tahiti); 1962: 58 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Monteforte, 1984: 173, annex 1, tab. a (Moorea). - Salvat, 1986b: 72 (French Polynesia). - Poupin, 1994a: 31, fig. 27, pl. 3f (Mataiva, Tahiti; coll. Frv Marara); 1996a: 32 (Checklist). - Portunus sanguinolentus sanguinolentus - Stephenson, 1976: 19 (Tahiti). - Portunus (Portunus) sanguinolentus - Guinot, 1985: 449 (List) - Field observation - J. Poupin, September 1997, in Phanerogam, Gen. Halophila, Oponohu bay, lot of specimen observed during a dive at night. - Field observation, 2006, photograph by P. Bacchet, det. Bacchet/Poupin, Tahiti, outer slope at night, about 0.5 m. - Salvat & Bacchet, 2011: 248, photo, field guide 'Au Vent des Iles Ed. Tahiti - French Polynesia, most often Society (Moorea, Tahiti). - Mission CRIOBE 2014 (Moorea).
Portunus sanguinolentus - Evans, 2018: 3/55, Fig. 1H, Moorea (Biocode, UF24538). Corrected to P. hawaiiensis (see 'Comments'.
Comment(s) on data
Portunus (Portunus) sanguinolentus hawaiiensis Stephenson, 1968 considered by Ng & Lai as a species different from P. sanguinolentus s.s. and distributed in Hawaii and French Polynesia (see Castro, 2011).
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database