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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65
journal article
6557
10.5281/zenodo.4503028
479d8c3b-8194-4f81-bed5-d157d5aa021e
2345-7600
4503028
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Dardanus megistos
(Herbst, 1804)
(
Fig. 4C
)
Cancer megistos
Herbst, 1804: 28
,
Fig. 1
, pl. 61 (
type
locality unknown).
Pagurus punctulatus
–
Estampador, 1937: 503
;
Yap-Chiongco, 1938: 197–198
;
Estampador, 1959: 50
.
Pagurus megistos
–
Fize & Serène, 1955: 160–166
, Fig. 24, pl. 4 nos. 1–3.
Dardanus megistos
–
Haig & Ball, 1988: 166
;
Cassidy, 2005: 112–114
, Figs. 13–14; McLaughlin et al., 2007: 94–95, 2 unlabellled figures.
Material examined.
1 male
SL
12.2 mm
(
ZRC
), stn M7,
Momo Beach
,
Panglao I.
,
9°36.1′N
,
123°45.2′E
,
0–3 m
,
1.vi.2004
;
1 male
SL 11.0 mm (
ZRC
), stn M8,
Doljo
, north coast,
Panglao I.
,
9°35.4′N
,
123°44.3′E
,
0–1 m
,
2.vi.2004
;
1 male
SL
26.2 mm
(
ZRC
), stn N4,
Alona Reef
,
Panglao I.
,
9°32.9′N
,
123°46.9′E
,
15–20 m
,
10.vi.2004
;
1 male
25.0 mm (
ZRC
),
Balicasag
I.,from tangle nets,
50–500 m
,
28.xi.2001
.
Habitat.
Intertidal to subtidal, 0 to approximately
50 m
deep, reef flats, seagrass beds, mangrove areas, and reef slopes, on rocky substrates.