Brief Summary
provided by Delta keys to Squat Lobster Identification
Type data: type lost. Type locality: Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands).
Distribution
provided by Delta keys to Squat Lobster Identification
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).
Identification Resources
provided by Delta keys to Squat Lobster Identification
Delta keys for squat lobsters, including Phylladiorhynchus integrirostris are available at http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/squatlobster/delta/deltakey.htm
Diagnostic Description
provided by Delta keys to Squat Lobster Identification
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.
Brief Summary
provided by EOL authors
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).
Habitat
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Known from seamounts and knolls
Stocks, K. 2009. Seamounts Online: an online information system for seamount biology. Version 2009-1. World Wide Web electronic publication.
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