Paguristes 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

Paguristes Dana, 1852

Remarks. The genus Paguristes has been well studied in the last twenty years ( Forest & McLaughlin, 2000; Komai, 2001, 2009, 2010; McLaughlin, 2004, 2007a; McLaughlin & Rahayu, 2005; Rahayu, 2006, 2007, 2021; Rahayu & McLaughlin, 2006; Rahayu & Forest, 2009; Ayon-Parente & Hendrickx, 2013; Komai et al., 2015a), and currently 120 species are recognised living in subtidal to the deep sea, distributed in the world oceans ( McLaughlin et al., 2010; Komai et al., 2015a; Rahayu, 2021). This genus is characterised by the presence of 13 pairs of gills, the first and second pleopods modified as gonopods in males, and the presence of paired first pleopods and a brood pouch in females. In Singapore only one species has been recorded ( Rahayu, 1996).