Pylocheles Mortensenii Boas, 1926: 40

Komai, Tomoyuki & Chan, Tin-Yam, 2016, “ Symmetrical ” hermit crabs of the family Pylochelidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) collected by the “ BIOPAPUA ” and “ PAPUA NIUGINI ” expeditions in the Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4088 (3), pp. 301-328 : 307-308

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6076047

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Pylocheles Mortensenii Boas, 1926: 40
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Pylocheles mortensenii Boas, 1926

Pylocheles Mortensenii Boas, 1926: 40 View in CoL , figs. 1, 5, 6, 10A, 11B, 13, 14, 18, 25A [type locality: Kei Islands, Indonesia, 290 m].

Mixtopagurus rigidus Yokoya, 1933: 71 , fig. 31 [type locality: syntypes came from five stations in Japanese waters: S of Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, 196 m; W of Tanegashima Island, 203 m; Bungo Strait, 190 m; E of Tanegashima Island, 219 m; near Koshiki Islands, 300 m].

Pylocheles rigidus .—Miyake 1978: 11, fig. 4.—Baba 1986: 185, fig. 132, 295.

Pylocheles (Pylocheles) mortensenii .—Forest 1987a: 51, figs. 2a, 3a, 5a, b, 7a, 8a–i, 9a–d, 41a, pl. 2C; 1987b: 311, figs. 1a, 3.—Forest & McLaughlin 2000: 33, fig. 5.—McLaughlin et al. 2007: 20, unnumbered figs.—Lemaitre et al. 2009: 5.— McLaughlin & Lemaitre 2009: 179.

Pylocheles mortensenii .—Saito & Konishi 2002: 623, figs. 1–3.

Material examined. BIOPAPUA, stn CP 3693, SE of Manus Island, 02°10’S, 147°17’E, 300 m, 1 male (sl 4.0 mm), MNHN-IU-2011-2634; same data, 1 ovigerous female (damaged, not measured), MNHN-IU-2011-1634; stn DW 3732, off Lancasay Island, 08°16’S, 150°29’E, 340–358 m, 9 October 2010, 1 male (sl 4.1 mm), 1 ovigerous female (sl 4.6 mm), MNHN-IU-2011-1039; DW 3734, off Lancasay Island, 08°16’S, 150°30’E, 389 m, 9 October 2010, 1 male (sl 3.5 mm), MNHN-IU-2011-930.

PAPUA NIUGINI, stn CP 4016, E of Umboi Island, Solomon Sea, 05°40’S, 148°14’E, 280–285 m, 12 December 2012, 1 female (sl 4.8 mm), MNHN-IU-2013-14442.

Description. See Forest (1987a: 51) and McLaughlin & Lemaitre (2009: 179).

Size. Largest male sl 4.1 mm, largest female sl 4.8 mm, ovigerous female sl 4.6 mm.

Distribution. Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand; 100–700 m (McLaughlin & Lemaitre 2009).

Habitat. Cavities in pumice rock (Miyake 1982; Forest 1987; McLaughlin & Lemaitre 2009; this study)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Pylochelidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Pylochelidae

Genus

Mixtopagurus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Pylochelidae

Genus

Pylocheles

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Pylochelidae

Genus

Pylocheles

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Pylochelidae

Genus

Pylocheles

Loc

Pylocheles Mortensenii Boas, 1926: 40

Komai, Tomoyuki & Chan, Tin-Yam 2016
2016
Loc

Pylocheles mortensenii

Boas 1926
1926
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