Palapedia integra

Palapedia integra (De Haan, 1835) Kraussia integra — Gordon 1931: 527; Shen 1940a: 223 [no new specimens]. Kraussia nitida — Morton and Harper 1995: 37 [not Kraussia nitida Stimpson, 1858]. Paralepida nitida — Morton and Harper 1997: tab. 4, pl. 1L [not K. nitida Stimpson, 1858]. Taxonomy: Sakai (1939: as Kraussia), Serène (1972: as Kraussia), Ng (1993), Ko and Takeda (1999). Type: Holotype ñ RMNH D 42202 (Yamaguchi and Baba 1993; Fransen et al. 1997). Type locality: Japan, locality unspecified. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean and West Pacific: Northwestern Australia, Indonesia, Gilbert Islands; South China, Taiwan, Japan (Buitendijk 1960; Serène 1972); records in Hawaii remained doubtful (Sakai 1976; Castro 2011). Habitat: Intertidal and subtidal; in sand or under rocks (Dai and Yang 1991). Remarks: Morphological differences between P. integra (De Haan, 1835) and P. nitida (Stimpson, 1858) include morphology of the carapace: that of P. integra being broader, frontal region visible as four obscure lobes, while the carapace of P. nitida is slightly longer than broad and the front has four distinct triangular lobes (cf. Sakai 1976: pl. 101(3). The local record is based on material collected around Cape d’Aguilar presented in Morton and Harper (1997: pl. 1L) which conforms to P. integra.