Ovalipes punctatus

Ovalipes punctatus (De Haan, 1833) Ovalipes punctatus — Morton 1979b: tab. 7.1; Morton and Morton 1983: 158, fig. 9.5(2). Taxonomy: Sakai (1939), Stephenson and Rees (1968a), Spiridonov et al. (2014). Type: Lectotype ò RMNH D 365, and paralectotypes in RMNH and NHM (designated by Stephenson and Rees 1968a; see also Yamaguchi and Baba 1993 and Fransen et al. 1997). Type locality: Japan, locality unspecified. Distribution: East Asia: China (East China Sea and Yellow Sea), Taiwan and Japan (Stephenson 1972a; J-F Huang and Yu 1997). Habitat: Subtidal; substrates of fine sand, medium muddy sand or shell fragments; depths 42 to 130 m (Yang et al. 2012).