Central Pacific Crustacea (Decapoda & Stomatopoda)
(French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)

Introduction

This is a database of the species of decapods (shrimps, lobsters, crabs, hermit crabs) and stomatopods (mantis shrimps), recorded from the central Pacific: French Polynesian Islands (Marquesas, Society, Tuamotu, Australs, and Gambier), Pitcairn, Easter Island, and Clipperton. The records have been compiled from a bibliographic research and field collections. Most of them have been already formally published: in Atoll Research Bulletin (Poupin, 1996a, 1998, 2003), in the Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (Résultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM, now continued by Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos), and in Poupin et al. (Clipperton species, in press). The aim of the present work is to update these publications and to complete them with unpublished data and photographs. The Database includes 1221 species and 1281 photographs
- List of the Stomatopoda (47 species, 24 photographs)
- List of the shrimps & lobsters (386 species, 214 photographs)
- List of the Hermit crabs (223 species, 280 photographs)
- List of the crabs (536 species, 700 photographs)

- Species from French Polynesia (1013 species, 1198 photographs)
- Species from Easter Island (187 species, 100 photographs)
- Species from Clipperton (95 species, 124 photographs)
- Species from Pitcairn (11 species, 17 photographs)
- Species from Wallis & Futuna (152 species, 114 photographs)
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