New species and new records of the hermit crab genus Pagurixus Melin, 1939 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Indo-West Pacific
Author
Komai, Tomoyuki
text
Journal of Natural History
2010
2010-05-24
44
21 - 22
1269
1342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222931003624812
journal article
10.1080/00222931003624812
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Pagurixus maorus
(
Nobili, 1906
)
Eupagurus maorus
Nobili 1906
, p 259
[
type
locality: Rikitea, Mangareva, Gambier Islands];
Nobili 1907
, p 371
, pl 1, figure 9.
Pagurixus maorus
: McLaughlin and Haig 1984
, 127, figure 2; Komai and Asakura 1995, p 347, figures 4–6;
Komai and Osawa 2006
, p 17
, figures 4–7, 44A, 47.
Material examined
Philippines
. MUSORSTOM 2, terrestrial survey,
Olange Reef
, intertidal,
14 December 1980
,
6 males
SL
2.6–3.6 mm
,
2 females
SL 2.4,
2.7 mm
, 6 ovigerous females SL
2.6–2.7 mm
(MNHN-Pg 8316)
.
New Caledonia
. SURPRISES,
Surprise Atoll
, stn DW 1397,
18°21.9’S
,
163°03.9′E
,
43 m
,
13 May 1999
, 1 ovigerous female SL
2.4 mm
(MNHN-Pg 8317); Surprise Atoll, stn 463,
18°20′S
,
163°01′E
,
43 m
,
1 March 1985
, 2 ovigerous females SL 2.7,
3.4 mm
(MNHN-Na 8318)
.
French Polynesia
.
Moorea
, 1980,
1 female
SL
2.4 mm
(MNHN-Na 8319)
.
Distribution
Southern
Japan, Indonesia, Marshall Islands
,
French Polynesia
,
intertidal to
20 m
.
Newly
recorded from the
Philippines
and
New Caledonia
.