Biogeographical Distribution

E. sebana are distributed widely throughout the world, with various widespread locations recorded in literature. Major locations include:

·         Indo-West Pacific islands, including Hawaii

·         Papa New Guinea

·         Eastern Australia

·         New Caledonia

·         Fiji

·         Samoa

·         Tonga

·         Cook Island

·         Kiribati

·         French Polynesia

·         East Africa

·         Japan

A more comprehensive and specific list of locations includes (listing adopted from ETI BioInformatics):

            Red Sea (Klunzinger, 1913); South Africa - Natal (Barnard, 1950); Zanzibar (Lenz, 1905); Madagascar - Iles Glorieuses, Baie du Courrier, Nosy Bé, Fort-Dauphin; Réunion (A. Milne Edwards, 1862); Mauritius (Bouvier, 1915b, Michel, 1964); Seychelles - Aldabra Island (Guinot, 1964b); Chagos Archipelago - Salomon, Peros Coin, Egmont (Rathbun, 1911); Laccadive Islands (Alcock, 1898); Sri Lanka (Alcock, 1898); Burma - Arakan coast (Alcock, 1898); Andaman Islands (Alcock, 1898); Mergui Archipelago (Alcock, 1898); Japan - Okinawa and Kikaishima (Stimpson, 1907), Ishigaki-jima (Parisi, 1916), Okinawa and Northern Daito-jima (Sakai, 1939), Hachijo-jima (Sakai, 1954), Yoron, Ishigaki, Taketomi-jima and Northern Daito-jima (Sakai, 1976a), Ishigaki-jima (Miyake, 1983), Okinoerabu-jima (Muraoka, 1998); Taiwan - Chi-lung and P'eng-hu (Lin, 1949); China - Paracel Island (Chen & Lan, 1978), Guangdong and Paracel Islands (Dai & Yang, 1991); Indonesia - Noordwachter Island (de Man, 1888d); Papua New Guinea - Nissan Island (Sendler, 1923); Palau (Sendler, 1923, Sakai, 1939, Takeda & Hayashi, 1973); Vanuatu - Torres Islands (Takeda & Nunomura, 1976); New Caledonia - Moneo (Takeda & Nunomura, 1976); Fiji (Dana, 1852); Samoa (Dana, 1852, Alcock, 1898, Parisi, 1916); Hawaii - Oahu (Rathbun, 1906); Line Islands - Palmyra and Tabuaeran (Edmondson, 1923); Society Islands (Dana, 1852); Tuamotu Archipelago - (Dana, 1852), Makatea (Sendler, 1923).