Petrolisthes haigae Chace, 1962

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 : 91-95

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1

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scientific name

Petrolisthes haigae Chace, 1962
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Petrolisthes haigae Chace, 1962 View in CoL

( Fig. 54–56 View FIGURE 54 View FIGURE 55 View FIGURE 56 , 89F View FIGURE 89 )

Petrolisthes haigae Chace 1962: 620 View in CoL , fig. 1; Haig 1968: 61; Gore & Abele 1976: 22; Gore 1982: 14; Werding & Haig 1982: 67; Hickman & Zimmerman 2000: 64, unnumbered colour photograph; Hiller et al. 2006: 553, 564; Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz 2007: 230; Moscoso 2012: 80, fig. 5E.

Petrolisthes marginatus View in CoL . —Haig 1957: 10; Haig 1960: 25, 47, pl. 20, fig. 1 [not Petrolisthes marginatus Stimpson, 1859 View in CoL ].

Petrolisthes sp. — Haig 1962: 177.

Material examined. Panama [ Pacific ]: 2 females, cl 2.5, cw 2.6 and cl 3.5, cw 3.3 ( FLMNH UF 57151 ), Coiba Is., off eastern coast of Isla Coiba , Isla Granito de Oro , Mona Lisa submerged rock, 7°35’39.9”N, 81°42’45.3”W, depth less than 8 m, in dead Pocillopora heads, leg. M. Leray et al., 18.02.2019 (fcn PAN-052); 1 female, cl 4.5, cw 4.3, 1 ov. female, cl 4.8, cw 4.6 ( FLMNH UF 57152 ), same collection data as for previous specimens (PAN-051); 1 male, cl 5.7, cw 5.5 ( FLMNH UF 57153 ), Coiba Is GoogleMaps ., Isla de Afuera, 7°41’42.9”N, 81°38’08.6”W, rocky intertidal and adjacent subtidal with coral rubble and dead coral heads, in crevices of coral rocks, depth: 0–1 m, leg. A. Anker, 19.02.2019 (fcn PAN-102); 1 male, cl 5.7, cw 5.4 ( FLMNH UF 57154 ), same collection data as for previous specimen (fcn PAN-101); 1 male, cl 6.3, cw 5.9 ( FLMNH UF 57712 ) GoogleMaps , Panama, Coiba Is ., Isla de Afuera, 7°41’49.1”N, 81°37’57.0”W, scuba diving, depth less than 8 m, in coral rubble ( Pocillopora ), leg. M. Leray et al., 22.02.2019 (fcn PAN-235); 1 ov. female, cl 5.7, cw 5.2 ( FLMNH UF 57713 ), same collection data as for previous specimen (fcn PAN-234); 1 ov. female, cl 5.7, cw 5.7 ( FLMNH UF 57155 ), Coiba Is GoogleMaps ., Isla Coiba , northwest coast, small rocky island off Bahía Santa Cruz, 7°37’53.4”N, 81°46”44.9”W, rocky plateau, under rocks and in rock crevices, leg. M. Leray et al., 20.02.2019 (fcn PAN-141); 1 male, cl 5.5, cw 5.3 ( FLMNH UF 57714 ), Coiba Is ., Isla Coibita (Ranchería), STRI station docking area, 7°38’13.1”N 81°42’17.7”W, intertidal sandflat with rocks and rubble, low tide, under rock/rubble, leg. A. Anker & P.P.G. Pachelle, 23.02.2019 (fcn PAN-258); 1 female, cl 5.4, cw 5.3 ( MZUSP 40071 View Materials ), Punta Mala, rocky intertidal, low tide, under rocks, A. Anker & J.F. Lazarus-Agudelo, 21.03.2015; 1 ov. female, cl 8.2, cw 8.7 ( MZUSP 33889 View Materials ), Las Perlas Is GoogleMaps ., Isla Contadora , Playa Cacique, rocky intertidal, under rocks and in rock crevices, leg. A. Anker, J. Luque, A.R. Palmer & T. Kaji, 16.04.2015; 2 ov. females, cl 6.5, cw 6.7 and cl, 6.9, cw 6.1 ( MZUSP 33892 View Materials ); Las Perlas Is ., Isla Bartolomé , rocky platform and adjacent sand-coral rubble bottom, depth 0–1 m, in crevices of rocks and dead corals, leg. A. Anker, J. Luque, A.R. Palmer & T. Kaji, 18.04.2015 .

Previous records from Panama. Haig (1968); Gore & Abele (1976).

Distribution. East Pacific: Clipperton I., Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama (Coiba Is., Bahía Honda in Veraguas, Punta Mala, Taboga Is., Las Perlas Is.), Colombia, Ecuador (including Galápagos) and Peru ( Haig 1968; Gore & Abele 1976; Gore 1982; Moscoso 2012; present study).

Ecology. Rocky and mixed rock-rubble-sand intertidal and shallow subtidal, often on rocky reefs rich in rocks encrusted by sponges and coralline algae, known depth range: typically 0–12 m, exceptionally 44 m; under rocks and coral debris, in crevices of dead coral heads (especially Pocillopora ) and other shelters ( Gore 1982; present study).

Remarks. Petrolisthes haigae was previously regarded as the probable eastern Pacific sister species of the amphi-Atlantic P. marginatus Stimpson, 1859 (= P. cessacii A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 ), differing from the latter by the carapace front broader and rounded (vs. narrower and oblong in P. marginatus ); the median frontal lobe shorter and broader (vs. more prominent and narrower in P. marginatus ); and the P1 robust, with the lateral margin of the propodus rounded (vs. slender, with the lateral margin of the propodus nearly straight in P. marginatus ) ( Ferreira & Tavares 2017). However, Hiller et al. (2006) recovered a sister relationship of P. haigae with P. hirtispinosus Lockington, 1878 , and not with P. marginatus .

The colour pattern of the Panamanian specimens of P. haigae is relatively homogeneous dorsally, however, presenting some variation on the ventral side ( Figs. 54–56 View FIGURE 54 View FIGURE 55 View FIGURE 56 ). For instance, the colour of the ventral side of the P1 palms may vary from yellowish to intense pink-red ( Figs. 54B View FIGURE 54 , 55B View FIGURE 55 , 56C–E View FIGURE 56 ). Noteworthy, the porcelain crab from Galápagos identified as P. haigae in the colour photograph in Hickman & Zimmerman (2000) is generally much darker and could represent at least a genetically isolated population.

FLMNH

Florida Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Porcellanidae

Genus

Petrolisthes

Loc

Petrolisthes haigae Chace, 1962

Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo & Anker, Arthur 2021
2021
Loc

Petrolisthes haigae

Moscoso, V. 2012: 80
Lazarus-Agudelo, J. F. & Cantera-Kintz, J. R. 2007: 230
Hiller, A. & Kraus, H. & Almon, M. & Werding, B. 2006: 553
Hickman, C. P. & Zimmerman, T. L. 2000: 64
Gore, R. H. 1982: 14
Werding, B. & Haig, H. 1982: 67
Gore, R. H. & Abele, L. G. 1976: 22
Haig, J. 1968: 61
Chace, F. A. Jr. 1962: 620
1962
Loc

Petrolisthes sp.

Haig J. 1962: 177
1962
Loc

Petrolisthes marginatus

Haig, J. 1960: 25
1960
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