Menippe rumphii (Fabricius, 1798)

Menippe rumphii (Fabricius, 1798) View in CoL # ( Figs. 7 View Fig , 35B View Fig )

Menippe rumphii — present record.

Taxonomy: De Man (1888b), Ng (1998).

Type: Syntype in UZMC (now NHMD; Zimsen 1964).

Type locality: Tharangambadi (= Tranquebar), India.

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to South China Sea and East Asia: from Madagascar, East Africa, Red Sea, Persian/Arabian Gulf, India, Mergui Archipelago, to Thailand, Indonesia, South China and Taiwan ( Ng et al. 2001; Naderloo and Türkay 2012).

Habitat: Intertidal and shallow subtidal; along rocky reefs beneath or among rocks.

Remarks: This species is fairly common among local rocky reefs, though surprising, not recorded in any previous taxonomic treatments. Herein reported as a new record for the fauna of Hong Kong.

Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858 #

Sphaerozius nitidus Stimpson, 1858a: 35 View in CoL ; Stimpson 1907: 62, pl. 7(5, 5a); Gee 1926: 163 [list]; Hill et al. 1975: 59; Morton 1976: 100; Hill et al. 1978: 84; Morton 1979a: 115, figs. 6.15, 6.16b; Horikoshi and Takeda 1982: tab. 1; ZG Huang and Mak 1982: app.; Morton and Morton 1983: 93, fig. 7.3(9); ZG Huang et al. 1992: app. 1; ZG Huang and Lin 1993: app.; Clark et al. 2008: 920.

Menippe convexa View in CoL — Gordon 1931: 527; Shen 1940a: 227.

Taxonomy: Sakai (1939), Crosnier (1984a).

Type: Presumably lost.

Type locality: Hong Kong.

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to Central Pacific: from South Africa, Madagascar, Red Sea, to South China Sea and East Asia, eastwards to Hawaii ( Crosnier 1984a).

Habitat: Intertidal and shallow subtidal, down to depths of 35 m ( Castro 2011).

Remarks: The taxonomy of this species was revised by Pati et al. (2021) and the many synonyms associated with it reappraised (see also Ng et al. 2008).