An annotated and illustrated checklist of the porcelain crabs of Panama (Decapoda: Anomura)
Author
Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo
0000-0003-1683-9962
Author
Anker, Arthur
0000-0002-5350-4267
arthuranker7@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-27
5045
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
1175-5326
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Pachycheles serratus
(
Benedict, 1901
)
Pisosoma serrata
Benedict 1901: 135
, pl. 3, fig. 7.
Pachycheles serratus
.
—
Haig 1956: 8
(part.);
Haig 1962: 181
(part.?);
Gore 1970: 962
, fig. 2 (part.);
Werding 1977: 194
, fig. 15 (part.);
Gore 1982: 9
(part.); Lira
et al.
2003: 49, fig. 1; Werding & Hiller 2017: 280, fig. 1b;
Poupin 2018: 148
.
Not
Pachycheles serratus
.—
Gore & Abele 1976: 20
;
Werding 1978a: 219
; Werding 1982: 441;
Rodríguez
et al.
2005: 557
(part.), pl. 1, fig. F;
Vargas
&
Cortés
2006: 463
[=
Pachycheles tuerkayi
Werding & Hiller, 2017
].
Material examined
.
Panama
[Caribbean]:
2 males
, cl 4.9, cw 5.5 and cl 4.3, cw 4.4 (
MZUSP 33792
)
,
Isla
Grande
, southwest coast, depth
0.5–2 m
, in dead corals, leg.
A. Anker
, J.F. Lazarus-Agudelo &
T. Kaji
,
27.03.2015
.
Previous records from
Panama
.
Haig (1956)
;
Gore (1970
,
1982
); Werding & Hiller (2017).
Distribution
. West Atlantic:
Puerto Rico
, N Lesser Antilles,
Panama
(
Bocas del Toro
, Bahía Limón / Caribbean entrance to
Panama
Canal, Punta Galeta,
Isla
Grande, but see below),
Colombia
and
Venezuela
(
Haig 1960
;
Gore 1982
; Werding & Hiller 2017; present study).
Ecology
. Intertidal and shallow subtidal, known depth range:
0–6 m
; typically on exposed rocky reefs and fossilised coral reef platforms, dwelling deep in crevices (
Werding 1977
; present study).
Remarks
. According to Hiller & Werding (2017), part of the material of
P. serratus
reported by
Haig (1956)
,
Gore (1970
;
1982
),
Werding (1977)
, as well as material reported under that name by
Gore & Abele (1976)
, Werding (1978, 1982) and
Vargas & Cortés (2006)
, in fact represents
P. tuerkayi
Werding & Hiller, 2017
(see below). Therefore, at least some of the Panamanian localities listed above for
P. serratus
may be incorrect as they may correspond to misidentified specimens of
P. tuerkayi
, although based on presently available collection data, both species often occur syntopically and may share the same microhabitats. The present material confirms the presence of
P. serratus
in
Isla
Grande, in addition to its indirectly inferred occurence in Bahía Limón and Punta Galeta (
Gore 1982
; Werding & Hiller 2017). The
two males
of
P. serratus
from
Isla
Grande were not photographed alive (see Werding & Hiller 2017 for a colour photograph of a Colombian specimen).