Macrophthalmus definitus Adams & White 1849

Macrophthalmus definitus Adams & White, 1849 Macrophthalmus teschi — Gordon 1931: 549. Macrophthalmus definitus — Shen 1940a: 234; Bones 1982: 691: pl. 3a, b; Morton and Morton 1983: 157; Shin 1990: tab. 2; Davie 1992a: 348 [key]; SY Lee and Leung 1999: 73; Bravo et al. 2021: tab. 2. Macrophthalmus (Mareotis) definitus — Barnes 1970: 232. Taxonomy: Barnes (1967 1970), Komai et al. (1995), Shih et al. (2015). Type: Holotype NHM 43.6 (Barnes 1970). Type locality: The Philippines. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean to West Pacific: Phuket (Thailand), Peninsular Malaysia, the Philippines, South China, Taiwan, Ryukyus, and Indonesia to the Solomon Islands (Shih et al. 2015). Habitat: Intertidal; in burrows on very soft substrates on mudflats near mangrove swamps (Komai et al. 1995). Remarks: Based on unpublished notes by C.-J. Shen deposited at the British Museum, the local record of “ M. teschi ” in Gordon (1931) represents the present species instead (Barnes 1970).