Thalamita chaptalii

Thalamita chaptalii (Audouin, 1826) Thalamita chaptalii — Shen 1940a: 223. Taxonomy: Stephenson and Hudson (1957), Crosnier (1962), Wee and Ng (1995), Yang et al. (2012). Type: Status unknown. Type locality: Red Sea. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to Central Pacific: from Madagascar, Red Sea, India, Sri Lanka, Southeast and East Asia to Taiwan, to Australia, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Tahiti (Stephenson 1972a; Yang et al. 2012). Habitat: Subtidal; among crevices of coral reefs or beneath rocks; depths 5 to 40 m (Yang et al. 2012).