Clibanarius merguiensis De Man, 1888
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14668648 |
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Clibanarius merguiensis De Man, 1888 |
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Clibanarius merguiensis De Man, 1888 View in CoL
( Fig. 7C View Figure 7 )
Habitat. Sandy, rocky shore, seagrass bed, and reef flat, intertidal.
Distribution. West Indian Ocean to Thailand, Vietnam and the Malay Archipelago, and the Philippines and Taiwan. Indonesia: Lombok, Sulawesi and Maluku.
Remarks. In life the species is recognizable by the yellowish orange with tinge of blue broad stripe on the dark brown or black of ambulatory legs. This color fades rapidly in the preservative.Color variation discussed by Rahayu and Forest (1993) were also found in the specimens in this study:
De Man JG 1888. Report on the Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F. R. S., Superintendent of the Museum, parts IV and V. Journal of the Linnean Society, London, 22: 177 - 240, 241 - 305.
Rahayu DL and Forest J 1993. Le genre Clibanarius (Crustacea, Decapoda, Diogenidae) en Indonesie, avec la description de six especes nouvelles. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 14 (A): 745 - 779.
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.
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