Decapoda - Brachyura - Epialtidae - Huenia

Huenia grandidierii A. Milne-Edwards, 1865


World Distribution
Griffin & Tranter (1986 : 77) - Afrique orientale, Tanzanie, Kenya, Somalie. Mayotte premier signalement. Europa, Juan de Nova.

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-5 m

Mayotte data
Huenia grandidierii A. Milne-Edwards, 1865
Material examined — Mayotte KUW 2009, coll. J. -M. Bouchard, V. Dinhut, 31 January ?2009, st. 26, Platier de Mutsumbatsou, intertidal, low tide, 2 MM 10.1 x 5.9 and 16.2 x 10.4 mm, MNHN B32544, MNHN-IU-2009-1304. - Poupin, 2016: 50, Juan de Nova, Expedition Juan de Nova December 2013, reef-block, st. 18, 1 female 14.0x11.9 mm (with spines, photo) (nr), MNHN-IU-2013-16087. - Mayotte, det. From photo Frédéric Ducarme, May 2018, no specimen examined
Remarks — This species is probably very common in WIO although rarely reported. It has been recently collected in the Mozambique channel at Europa and Juan de Nova (Poupin et al., 2013b; Poupin, 2016) and Réunion (Legall & Poupin, 2018). In Huenia grandidierii there is a strong sexual dimorphism of the shape carapace (as often seen in Huenia species) and the live coloration observed for Réunion is bright green (cf. photos in Legall & Poupin, 2018). Huenia grandidierii is very similar to Huenia pacifica Miers, 1879 reported from Indonesia to Fiji, French Polynesia and Easter Island. Griffin & Tranter (1986: 84) indicate a few differences between these two species, once suggested as possible synonyms.
Geographic and depth ranges — WIO, Somalia, Tanzania to Mayotte (this work), Réunion; intertidal to subtidal.

Europa data
Huenia grandidierii - Europa - BIORECIE, St. 8, 1 female ovigerous 9.7(without rostrum)x9.9 mm (MNHN). Premier signalement.

Réunion data
Huenia grandidierii - Réunion, coll. & photo P. Bourjon, 2016, 1.5 m, near Boergesenia forbesii . - Bourjon et al., 2018 (Cah. Biol. Mar.): 454, tab. 1, Réunion.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database