Leptodius sanguineus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

Leptodius sanguineus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) View in CoL

? Chlorodius exaratus View in CoL var. h, latus Stimpson, 1907: 55 , pl. 6(9).

? Leptodius latus — Shen 1940a: 225 [no new specimens].

Taxonomy: Sakai (1939: as Xantho View in CoL ( Leptodius View in CoL )), Serène (1984).

Type: Syntypes probably in MNHN ( Davie 2002).

Type locality: Mauritius.

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to Central Pacific: from South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Red Sea, Persian/Arabian Gulf, Indian Ocean, to Southeast and East Asia, towards Palau, Indonesia, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, Tuamotu and Hawaii ( Buitendijk 1960; Serène 1984).

Habitat: Intertidal and subtidal; rocky shores under stones, in crevices of rocks or shallow waters on coral reefs ( Dai and Yang 1991). Remarks: Following the comments by S-k Lee et al. (2013), we tentatively place the record of var. latus described in Stimpson (1907) under L. sanguineus (see Remarks under L. affinis above).

Liagore rubromaculata (De Haan, 1835) #

Liagore rubromaculata View in CoL — Alcock 1898: 93 [part: Hong Kong material only]; Kemp 1923: 408 [part: Hong Kong material only]; Gee 1926: 163 [list]; Gordon 1931: 528; Shen 1940a: 223; Morton and Morton 1983: 273, fig. 12.9(12); Blackmore and Rainbow 2000: app. 1; Wong et al. 2021: 59, fig. 97, pl. 18D.

Taxonomy: Sakai (1939), Guinot (1971), Ng and Chen (2004b).

Type: Lectotype ò RMNH D 42221 and paralectotypes in RMNH (designated by Yamaguchi and Baba 1993; see also Fransen et al. 1997).

Type locality: Japan, locality unspecified.

Distribution: West Pacific: Queensland ( Australia), Indonesia, Vietnam, South China, Taiwan, and Japan ( Guinot 1971; Ng et al. 2001; Davie 2002).

Habitat: Subtidal; in coral reefs or near rocky coast; depths 15 to 30 m ( Dai and Yang 1991).