Epixanthus corrosus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873

Epixanthus corrosus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 View in CoL

Epixanthus corrosus — Thompson and Shin 1983: tab. 4.

Taxonomy: Sakai (1976), Crosnier (1984a).

Type: Syntypes probably in MNHN (see De Man (1891)).

Type locality: New Caledonia.

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to West Pacific: from Madagascar, Red Sea to Malay Archipelago, South China Sea (Paracel Islands = Xisha) and East Asia, to New Caledonia ( Dai and Yang 1991).

Habitat: Intertidal, rocky or stony beaches ( Sakai 1976).

Remarks: This intertidal species displays a distribution along localities of much open ocean influences (see e.g., A Milne-Edwards 1873; Guinot 1958b; Sakai 1976; Dai and Yang 1991; Asakura et al. 1993). The single local record, without further illustrations or elaborations, was from benthic grab samples from the Victoria Harbour. We retain this record with hesitation.

Epixanthus frontalis (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) #

Ozius frontalis View in CoL — Stimpson 1858a: 34; Stimpson 1907: 60.

Epixanthus frontalis View in CoL — Gee 1926: 162 [list]; Gordon 1931: 528; Shen 1940a: 227; Hill et al. 1975: 59; Morton 1976: 100, fig. 54g; Hill et al. 1978: 84; Morton 1979a: 115, fig. 6.15; Morton and Morton 1983: 93, figs. 7.3(7), 7.12(9), pl. 6D; Morton 1988: 96, pl. 32; Morton and Harper 1995: 43, fig. 6(4); Poon 2000: 12; VCS Lai et al. 2006: 63, 4 unnumb. figs.; Bravo et al. 2021: tab. 2.

Sphaerozius nitidus View in CoL — Hill and Phillipps 1981: 150, pl. 50g.

Taxonomy: Barnard (1950), Crosnier (1984a). Type: Syntypes probably in MNHN ( Davie 2002). Type locality: Tharangambadi (as Tranquebar),

India. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to West

Pacific: from South and East Africa, Red Sea, Persian/

Arabian Gulf, India, Southeast and East Asia, to

Australia and New Caledonia ( Dai and Yang 1991;

Naderloo and Türkay 2012). Habitat: Intertidal, beneath rocks fragments.