Anchistus custos (Forskål, 1775) Cancer custos Forskål, 1775: xxi, 94. Anchistus custos - Holthuis, 1952a: 105; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 46, 72; Müller, 1993: 8; Bruce, 1996: 205; 2003: 211; Li, 1997: 228; 2000: 7, Fig. 8; 2001: 76; Davie et al., 1998: 96, phto; Li & Liu, 2002: 371, Fig. 1. Material examined. – 9 males, 12 females (5 ovig)(IOCAS, 1 male, 1 female (ZRC), CN 55 - K332 A, Xinying, Hainan Is., intertidal, with Pinna sp., 23-25 May.1955. Distribution. – Red Sea and eastern Africa to Philippines, southward to South Australia, and eastward to the Caroline and Fijian Islands (Chace & Bruce, 1993), also reported from Ambon, Indonesia (Debelius, 1999). Associated with mollusks of the genera Pinna, Atrina and Vasum.

Published as part of Li, Xinzheng, Bruce, Alexander J. & Manning *, Raymond B., 2004, Some Palaemonid Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) From Northern South China Sea, With Descripitions Of Two New Species, pp. 513-553 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 528, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244123