Paguristes longirostris Dana, 1852

Rahayu, Dwi Listyo, 2022, Hermit crabs of Singapore (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae, Paguridae), with description of two new species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70, pp. 329-363 : 350

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26107/RBZ-2022-0017

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7171404

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/37778780-FFD9-E95B-DA80-F3E8FAECF4F0

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Felipe

scientific name

Paguristes longirostris Dana, 1852
status

 

Paguristes longirostris Dana, 1852 View in CoL

( Fig. 11A View Fig )

Paguristes longirostris Dana, 1852: 436 View in CoL (type locality: East Indies); Nobili, 1903: 21; Alcock, 1905b: 36, pl. 1, fig. 5; Rahayu, 1996: 350; McLaughlin, 2002a: 392.

Material examined. 1 male, 6.4 mm, 2 ovigerous females, 5.8 mm, 6.4 mm, st. TB58, Around Tanah Merah, 1°16.808′N 103°58.246′E, mud, 38.7‒39.9 m, 24 May 2013; 1 male, 2.5 mm ( ZRC 1991.9679 View Materials ), Pulau Semakau ; 1 male, 9.5 mm ( ZRC 2021.0225 View Materials ), st. DW58, Pulau Semakau, 10 August 2010 .

Colour in life. Colour in general cream or cream with tinge of brown. Shield mottled yellowish tan or light brown; ocular peduncle light brown or dark orange, distal part bright orange, corneas yellow with black blotch medially; ocular acicle light brown or dark orange; ultimate segment and flagella of antennular peduncle light blue; antennal peduncle brown, flagellum blue; chelipeds cream, meri each with large blue spot on each lateral and mesial surfaces; P2 and P3 cream, dactyls with dark brown stripes distally and proximally, lateral surfaces of propodi each with longitudinal brown stripe medially, two stripes on carpi and meri ( Fig. 11A View Fig ).

Distribution. East coast of India, Andaman Sea off Phuket, Thailand, and Singapore; at depths of 30–40 m, in sandy mud substrate.

Remarks. The scale-like, imbricated tubercles on the chelipeds, and a large, rounded blue spot on lateral and mesial surfaces of the merus of the chelipeds immediately separate this species from other species in Paguristes .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Diogenidae

Genus

Paguristes

Loc

Paguristes longirostris Dana, 1852

Rahayu, Dwi Listyo 2022
2022
Loc

Paguristes longirostris

McLaughlin PA 2002: 392
Rahayu DL 1996: 350
Alcock A 1905: 36
Nobili G 1903: 21
Dana JD 1852: 436
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