The Albuneidae (Decapoda : Anomura : Hippoidea) of the Hawaiian Islands, with description of a new species

Albunea danai, a new species that has been confused with A. speciosa Dana, is described from Oahu, Hawaii. The new species actually resembles A. carab us (Linnaeus) from the Mediterranean and western Africa. The discovery of t his new species brings the total number of Indo-West Pacific members of the genus to eight. Albunea speciosa is broadly distributed in the Indo-West P acific and is not a Hawaiian endemic as previously believed. As the identit ies of the two Hawaiian species have been confused, A. speciosa is here red escribed from new material and a neotype is selected. Both A. danai and A. speciosa are discussed using newly defined morphological characters.