Huenia heraldica

Huenia heraldica (De Haan, 1837) Huenia proteus — Morton and Morton 1983: 47, fig. 4.5(2). Taxonomy: Sakai (1938: as H. proteus), Griffin and Tranter (1986: as H. proteus), Holthuis (1987). Type: Lectotype ñ RMNH D 42190, and paralectotypes in RMNH (designated by Holthuis 1987; see also Yamaguchi and Baba 1993, Fransen et al. 1997). Type locality: Japan, locality unspecified. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean to Central Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, South China Sea, Taiwan and Japan, to Hawaii (Griffin and Tranter 1986; Ng et al. 2001; Yang et al. 2008; Castro 2011). Habitat: Subtidal; rocky or weedy beaches, sometimes pebbly bottoms, not more than 50 m deep (Dai and Yang 1991). Remarks: Individuals of this species resemble foliage of the seaweed Halimeda sp. (Borradaile 1903) and display extreme variation in the carapace shape (Sakai 1976; as H. proteus). Holthuis (1987) showed the name of the species, H. heraldica (De Haan, 1837) has priority over H. proteus (De Haan, 1839).