Dardanus deformis (H. Milne Edwards, 1836 )

Castro, Peter, 2011, Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947, Zootaxa 2947 (1), pp. 1-154 : 24

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Dardanus deformis (H. Milne Edwards, 1836) View in CoL

Pagurus deformis H. Milne Edwards, 1836: 272 , pl. 13, fig. 4 [type localities: Île de France (= Mauritius), Seychelles; syntypes: MNHN-Pg1246].

Hawaiian Is. records:

? Pagurus deformis (H. Milne Edwards, 1836) — Randall 1840: 133 [“Sandwich Is.”].

Dardanus deformis (H. Milne Edwards, 1836) View in CoL — Edmondson 1925: 24 [O‘ahu]; 1946: 263 [H.I.]. — Galstoff 1933: 17 [Pearl and Hermes Reef]. — Hoover 2006: 259, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Fize & Serène (1955), McLaughlin & Hogarth (1998), McLaughlin et al. (2007)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Carries sea anemones on the gastropod shell; shallow subtidal.

References

Edmondson, C. H. (1925) Crustacea. In: Marine Zoology of tropical central Pacific (Tanager Expedition, Publication 1). Bulletin Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 27, 3 - 62.

Fize, A. & Serene, R. (1955) Les pagures du Vietnam. Notes du l'Institut Oceanographique de Nhatrang, 45, i - ix + 1 - 228, pls. 1 - 6.

Galstoff, P. S. (1933) Pearl and Hermes Reef, Hawaii, hydrographical and biological observations. Bulletin Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 107, 1 - 49, pls. 1 - 5.

Hoover, J. P. (2006) Hawai'i's Sea Creatures. Revised edition. Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, xviii + 366 pp. [first edition 1999]

McLaughlin, P. A. & Hogarth, P. J. (1998) Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridea) from the Seychelles. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 318, 1 - 48.

McLaughlin, P. A., Rahayu, D. L., Komai, T. & Chan, T. - Y. (2007) A Catalog of the Hermit Crabs (Paguroidea) of Taiwan. National Taiwan University, Keelung, viii + 636 pp.

Milne Edwards, H. (1836) Observations zoologiques sur les pagures et description d'un nouveau genre de la tribu du paguriens. Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie (Paris), ser. 2, 6, 257 - 288, pls. 13, 14.

Randall, J. W. (1840) Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J. K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the Academy. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 8 (1) [1839], 106 - 147, pls. 3 - 7.