Decapoda - Brachyura - Grapsidae - Geograpsus

Geograpsus stormi De Man, 1895



World Distribution
Banerjee (1960 : 171) - Indo-ouest Pacifique, de la mer d'Arabie et Afrique orientale au Japon et la Polynésie française. Comprend, Réunion.

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

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

Mayotte data
Geograpsus lividus - Fourmanoir, 1954: 5, Juan de Nova / Not G. lividus, accepted as G. stormi in Crosnier (1965: 21)
Geograpsus ?stormi - Tromelin, Field photo Florent BIGNON 2017 florent.bignon@taaf.fr, det. J. Poupin, Tromelin Island - This species has been rarely reported in the WIO. Det. from photo only with characteristic live color pattern. To be confirmed by examination of specimen(s); also Tromelin, photo, perhaps from Baumann, 21/11/2018, TAAF, transmitted December 2019 by Maxime Amy, TAAF Réunion.

Réunion data
Geograpsus stormi - Mission Poupin, avril 2008 (MNHN, St. 1, 1 femelle 19,3x25,3 mm, photographie J. Poupin, programme BIOTAS).

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Geograpsus lividus stormi de Man - Rathbun, 1907: 29 (Nuku Hiva). - Geograpsus stormi - Banerdjee, 1960: 167 (Syn.). - Forest & Guinot, 1962: 72 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu, Marquesas"). - Guinot, 1985: 453 (List). - Poupin, 1994a: 58, fig. 54, pl. 7a (Nuku Hiva; coll. Frv Marara); 1996a: 66 (Checklist). - AAMP, Marquesas, 2012, Leg 3, St. MQ5-M, Nuku Hiva, intertidal, coll. Poupin, Starmer, sample JP4, JP5, JP14, JP23, St. MQ7-M, Nuku Hiva, baie Controleur, coll. Corbari et al., sample JP41 (2 color pattern: red brick, gray), St. MQ12-M, Tahuata, intertidal, coll. Corbari et al., sample LC61.
Marquises, Motane, photo

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database