Stomatopoda - Unipeltata - Gonodactylidae - Gonodactylus
| Gonodactylus childi Manning, 1971 |
World Distribution
Ahyong (2012: 240) - Australia to Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, Enewetak Atoll and French Polynesia; intertidal to shallow subtidal (Ahyong et al. 2008).
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-5 m
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Gonodactylus viridis - Monteforte, 1984: 173, annex 1, tab. a (Mataiva, Moorea, Tahiti; id. M.K. Moosa); 1987: 8 (Moorea). - Delesalle, 1985: 305 (Mataiva). - Müller, 1994: 44 (Syn.). - Gonodactylinus viridis - Manning, 1995: 19, 66, pl. 4, fig. 8c,d, 9c, 10e, 11c, 25a (List; new combination). - Poupin, 1998: 34 (Checklist). - All sp. from French Polynesia not Gonodactylinus viridis (Serène, 1954), see Ahyong, 2002: 367. - Gonodactylus childi - Poupin, 1998: 34 (Checklist with - MNHN Sto 1170 collections, det. R.B. Manning). - Ahyong, 2002: 369 (Checklist of stomatopods from French Polynesia; syn.). - Moorea Biocode project. - Ahyong, 2017, Zootaxa, 558, AM P88059, 1 female (TL 26 mm), NE side Maria Island, between Île du Nordet and Île Centrale, 21°47.7’S, 154°42.0’W, 1 m, large piece of coral rubble, coll. J. Lowry & J. Poupin, 7 Aug 1991. GAMBIER ISLANDS: AM P98496, 1 female (TL 10 mm), Morane, 23°10.269’S, 137°09.220’W, 15 m, coral rubble, SFP2014-59-002, coll. A. Bertheleson et al., 9 October 2014.
Comment(s) on data
This remark in Ahyong (2017, Zootaxa: 559) - Gonodactylus chiragra (Fabricius, 1787) has been widely reported from throughout the Indo-West Pacific including French Polynesia. As observed by Manning (1995), however, a suite of species, including many species of Gonodactylellus and Gonodactylus, has been confused with G. chiragra. Gonodactylus chiragra is so far confirmed from the western Indian Ocean to the central western Pacific (Ahyong 2001), but all previous records of G. chiragra from French Polynesia require verification. Seurat’s (1934) record of G. chiragra from the Gambier Islands (Mangareva) may be based on G. childi.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database