Hermit crabs of the genera Calcinus Dana, Clibanarius Dana, and Dardanus Paul’son from the PANGLAO 2004 Expedition, with description of a new species and a checklist of the hermit crabs of the Philippines (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea)
Author
Malay, Maria Celia (Machel) D.
Author
Rahayu, Dwi Listyo
Author
Chan, Tin-Yam
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2018
2018-01-17
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.4503028
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2345-7600
4503028
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Dardanus
Paul’son, 1875
Remarks.
A genus of mostly large hermit crabs found in shallow waters to deeper slopes, and in tropical, subtropical, to temperate latitudes. Forty-four valid species have been described (
McLaughlin et al., 2010
;
Rahayu, 2010
), of which 30 are found in the Indo-West Pacific and 12 were previously reported from the
Philippines
. The PANGLAO 2004 expedition collected 8 of them and added one new record. Moreover, the species
D. lagopodes
is determined to be a species complex and is now formally separated into three distinct species, with
D. sanguinolentus
Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
) revalidated and a new species described, thus bringing the total species count in the
Philippines
to 15.