Clibanarius virescens ( Krauss,1843 )

Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry, 2024, Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Calcinidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) from Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, Nauplius (e 20240507) 32, pp. 1-24 : 15

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e20240507

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14668658

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scientific name

Clibanarius virescens ( Krauss,1843 )
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Clibanarius virescens ( Krauss,1843) View in CoL

( Fig. 7F View Figure 7 )

Habitat. Sandy muddy substrate at seagrass bed and rocky shore, intertidal.

Distribution. East coast of Africa to Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, and Fiji. Indonesia: Kalimantan, Lombok, Sulawesi, and Maluku.

Remarks. The yellow or yellowish cream of dactylus of the second and third pereopods, and the green or dark green of the propodus, carpus and merus are characteristic for this species. Morgan (1985) and Yoshikawa et al. (2020) recorded the color variation of this species.

Krauss F 1843. Die Sudafrikanischen Crustaceen. Eine Zusammenstellung aller bekannten Malacostraca. Bemerkungen uber deren Lebensweise und geographische Verbreitung, nebst Beschreibung und Abbildung mehrerer neuen Arten. Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 68 p.

Morgan GJ 1985. Variation in a key character in a population of Clibanarius virescens (Krauss, 1843) (Decapoda, Diogenidae). Crustaceana, 55: 317 - 318.

Yoshikawa A, Ikeo K, Imoto J, Jaingam W, Putri LSE, Mardiansyah, Nakano T, Shimomura M and Asakura A 2020. Colour variation of the intertidal hermit crab Clibanarius virescens considering growth stage, geographic area in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, and molecular phylogeny. Journal of the Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 100 (7): 1107 - 1121. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 002531542000106 X

Gallery Image

Figure 7. (A) Clibanarius eurysternus Hilgendorf, 1878, male, 3.5 mm (MZB Cru 5530). (B) Clibanarius longitarsus (De Haan, 1849), (photo in preservative), male, 2.7 mm (MZB Cru 5534). (C) Clibanarius merguiensis De Man, 1888, male, 3.5 mm (MZB Cru 5538). (D) Clibanarius snelliusi Buitendijk, 1937 (photo in preservative), male, 3.3 mm (MZB Cru 5539). (E) Clibanarius striolatus Dana, 1852, male, 6.4 mm (MZB Cru 5541). (F) Clibanarius virescens (Krauss, 1843), male, 4.1 mm (MZB Cru 5544). Live coloration unless indicated otherwise.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Diogenidae

Genus

Clibanarius