Petrolisthes hians Nobili, 1901

Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo & Anker, Arthur, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the porcelain crabs of Panama (Decapoda: Anomura), Zootaxa 5045 (1), pp. 1-154 : 96

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Petrolisthes hians Nobili, 1901
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Petrolisthes hians Nobili, 1901 View in CoL

( Fig. 57 View FIGURE 57 )

Petrolisthes hians Nobili 1901: 17 View in CoL ; Haig 1957: 7; Haig 1960: 121, pl. 22, fig. 3; Haig 1968: 67; Gore 1982: 14; Werding & Haig 1982: 67; Werding & Hiller 2005: 1189; Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz 2007: 230; García-Madrigal & Andréu- Sánchez 2009: 33, fig. 4A.

Material examined. Panama [Pacific]: 1 ov. female, cl 5.0, cw 5.1, 2 males, cl 3.5, cw 3.3 and cl 3.9, cw 3.7 ( MZUSP 33476 View Materials ), Río Mar , rocky intertidal, low tide, under rocks and in rock crevices, leg. A. Anker, J.F. Lazarus- Agudelo & T. Kaji, 20.03.2015 ; 1 ov. female, cl 3.8, cw 4.1 ( MZUSP 33785 View Materials ), Punta Mala, rocky intertidal, low tide, under large boulders, leg. A. Anker & J.F. Lazarus-Agudelo, 23.03.2015 .

Previous records from Panama. Haig (1960); Gore (1982).

Distribution. East Pacific: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama (Secas Is., Punta Mala, Río Mar, vicinity of Ciudad de Panamá, Taboga Is., Las Perlas Is., Bahía Piña in Darién), Colombia and Ecuador ( Haig 1960; Gore 1982; present study).

Ecology. Intertidal and shallow subtidal, known depth range: 0–36 m; on exposed rocky shores; typically under rocks or in rock crevices, in “coralline and sponge-covered areas” ( Haig 1960; Gore 1982; present study).

Remarks. According to Haig (1960), P. hians is closely related to the western Atlantic P. jugosus Streets, 1872 (see below). These two species are the only species of the genus Petrolisthes with five (instead of seven) plates in the telson ( Werding & Hiller 2005). The general shape of the body and P1 of P. hians , as well as the colour pattern of the species, appear to be very characteristic ( Fig. 57 View FIGURE 57 ). The more uniform orange-reddish Mexican specimen illustrated by García-Madrigal & Andréu-Sánchez (2009) was probably photographed post-mortem, being almost completely discoloured.

Garcia-Madrigal, M. S. & Andreu-Sanchez, L. I. (2009) Los cangrejos porcelanidos (Decapoda: Anomura) del Pacifico sur de Mexico, incluyendo una lista y clave de identificacion para todas las especies del Pacifico oriental tropical. Ciencia y Mar, 13 (39), 23 - 54.

Gore, R. H. (1982) Porcellanid crabs from the coasts of Mexico and Central America (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 363, 1 - 34. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.363

Haig, J. (1960) The Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Anomura) of the Eastern Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition, 24, 1 - 440.

Haig, J. (1968) Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. Porcellanid crabs (Crustacea: Anomura) from the west coast of tropical America. Zoologica, New York, 53 (2), 57 - 74.

Lazarus-Agudelo, J. F. & Cantera-Kintz, J. R. (2007) Crustaceos (Crustacea: Sessilia, Stomatopoda, Isopoda, Amphipoda, Decapoda) de Bahia Malaga, Valle del Cauca (Pacifico colombiano). Biota Colombiana, 8 (2), 221 - 239.

Nobili, G. (1901) Decapodi raccolti dal Dr. Filippo Silvestri nell' America Meridionale. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e di Anatomia Comparata della R. Universita di Torino, 16 (402), 1 - 16.

Streets, T. H. (1872) Notice of some Crustacea from the Island of St. Martin, W. I., collected by Dr. Van Rijgersma. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 24, 131 - 134.

Werding, B. & Haig, H. (1982) The porcellanid crabs of the Isla Gorgona, Pacific coast of Colombia, with a description of Clastotoechus gorgonensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Anomura). Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas de Punta Betin, 12, 57 - 70. https: // doi. org / 10.25268 / bimc. invemar. 1982.12.0.495

Werding, B. & Hiller, A. (2005) A new porcellanid species from the Caribbean Sea, with a discussion on the American Petrolisthes lewisi - group (Decapoda, Anomura, Porcellanidae). Crustaceana, 78 (10), 1185 - 1190. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 156854005775903582

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FIGURE 57. Petrolisthes hians Nobili, 1901: A, B, ovigerous female (cl 5.0 mm, cw 5.1 mm) from Río Mar, Panama (MZUSP 33476), dorsal (A) and ventral (B) views [photographs by AA].

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Porcellanidae

Genus

Petrolisthes