Phylladiorhynchus integrirostris (Dana 1852)

Type data: type lost. Type locality: Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands).

Western Indian Ocean to New Caledonia, Ogasawara Islands, Marshall Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Easter Island, Juan Fernández Islands, and Lord Howe Rise, south of Ball?s Pyramid.; intertidal to 160 m (Baba 2005).

Delta keys for squat lobsters, including Phylladiorhynchus integrirostris are available at http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/squatlobster/delta/deltakey.htm

Carapace, with 2 epigastric spines. Rostrum, lateral margins convex, with very small or obsolete subterminal lateral spines. Dactylus of walking legs with 4-6 ventral marginal spines (usually 5), or with 6-9 ventral marginal spines (usually 7-8). Sternite 3 anterior margin with blunt median process, without acute lateral processes.

Phylladiorhynchus integrirostris is a “squat lobster” in the decapod superfamily Galatheoidea.Like its four congenitors, P. integrirostris has a benthic lifestyle and is found often in coral rubble on seamounts, knolls and beaches of the Indian Ocean and across the Pacific (Fujita 2007).

Known from seamounts and knolls