Plagusia dentipes, (De Haan, 1835)

G uinusia dentipes (De Haan, 1835) View in CoL

Plagusia dentipes View in CoL — Morton and Morton 1983: 42.

Taxonomy: Sakai (1939: as Plagusia View in CoL ), Griffin (1973b: as Plagusia View in CoL ), Schubart and Cuesta (2010).

Type: Lectotype ò in RMNH D 123, and paratypes in RMNH (designated by Yamaguchi and Baba 1993; see also Fransen et al. 1997).

Type locality: Japan, locality unspecified.

Distribution: West to East Pacific: Taiwan, Korea, Japan; North and Northeast Australia, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec Islands, and Easter Island ( Griffin 1973b).

Habitat: Subtidal, to depths of 30 m ( Ng et al. 2001).

Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790) #

Plagusia orientalis Stimpson, 1858b: 103 View in CoL ; Stimpson 1907: 122.

Plagusia depressa View in CoL — Stimpson 1858b: 103; Stimpson 1907: 123; Gee 1926: 164 [list]; Williams 2003: 92, 2 unnumb. figs. [not Cancer depressa Fabricius, 1775 ].

Plagusia tuberculata View in CoL — Gee 1926: 164 [list]; Hill et al. 1975: 54; Morton 1976: 97; Hill et al. 1978: 76; Morton 1979a: 112, fig. 6.12; Hill and Phillipps 1981: 148, pl. 50c.

Plagusia depressa tuberculata View in CoL — Shen 1940a: 238 [no new specimens]; Morton and Morton 1983: 42, fig. 4.4(1).

Plagusia depressa squamosa View in CoL — Shen 1940a: 239.

Taxonomy: Dawson (1 9 8 7: as P. depressa tuberculata View in CoL ), Schubart and Ng (2000), Maenosono (2015).

Type: Lectotype ò ZMB HERBST 0498, and paralectotypes in ZMB (designated by K Sakai 1999; see also Schubart and Ng 2000).

Type locality: East Indies.

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to East Pacific: from South Africa and Madagascar, Red Sea, to southern California, and possibly Chile ( Davie 2002).

Habitat: Intertidal and shallow subtidal; along rocky reefs, also as rafting species ( Schubart et al. 2001).

Remarks: All records of P. tuberculata Lamarck, 1818 and P. orientalis Stimpson, 1858 in the Indo-Pacific, should be considered conspecific with and junior synonyms of P. squamosa (Herbst, 1790) ( Schubart and Ng 2000) .