Hermit crabs from Brazil: Family Diogenidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea), except Paguristes
Author
Nucci, Paulo Ricardo
Author
Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De
text
Zootaxa
2015
3947
3
327
346
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3947.3.2
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Dardanus venosus
(H.
Milne Edwards, 1848
)
(
Figs 3
C, 6E)
Pagurus venosus
H.
Milne Edwards, 1848
: 61
.—
Stimpson, 1859
: 82
.
Petrochirus insignis
Rathbun, 1900
: 144
.
Pagurias insignis
Benedict, 1901: 141
.
Pagurus arrosor
Moreira, 1901
: 24
.
Pagurus arrosor
var.
divergens
.—
Moreira, 1906
: 13
, pl. 4, fig. 1.
Dardanus venosus
.—
Verrill, 1908
: 441
, figs 58, 59, pl. 26, figs 4a, 5a [
part
.].—Rathbun, 1919: 329.—Schmidt, 1924: 95; 1935: 201, fig. 62 [
part
.]; 1936: 376.—
Holthuis, 1959
: 153
.—
Provenzano, 1959
: 374
, fig. 6 [
part
.]; 1960: 119; 1961: 153; 1963a: 11, figs 1–5.—
Forest & Saint Laurent, 1968
: 94
.—
Ross & Sutton, 1968
: 380
.—
Cutress & Ross, 1969
: 225
, pl.1, figs a, b.—
Cutress et al., 1970
: 371
.—
Biffar & Provenzano, 1972
: 778
, figs 1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5A, 6A.—
Coelho & Ramos-Porto, 1986
: 50
.—
Rieger, 1998
: 420
.—
Melo, 1999
: 64
, fig. 20.—McLaughlin
et al
., 2010: 21.
Pagurus insignis
Bouvier, 1918
: 6
.
Material examined
.
Brazil
: Amapá—Proj. Leste I, st. 1891A (
04°44’N
,
36°03’W
), 1 spec. (MZUSP-7506); Proj. NNE II, st. 1910 (
03°28’N
,
49°52’W
), 2 spec. (MZUSP-8855). Pará—Proj. NNE II, st. 1892 (
01°45’N
,
48°18’W
), 1 spec. (MZUSP-8854). Pernambuco—Camaragibe, Praia dos Morros, 1 spec. (MZUSP-12815); Suape, 1 spec. (MZUSP-7214); 1 spec. (MZUSP-7215); Ponta de Pedra, 1 spec. (MZUSP-7490); Proj. NNE II, st. 1662A. Atol das Rocas, 1 spec. (MZUSP-8853). Alagoas—Paripueira, 1 spec. (MZUSP-12816); Japaratinga, 1 spec. (MZUSP-12817). Espírito Santo—Vitória,
Ilha
do Boi, 1 spec. (MZUSP-12974). Rio de Janeiro—Praia de Itaipú, 6 spec. (MZUSP-8665); 4 spec. (MZUSP-8664).
Diagnosis
. Shield slightly longer than broad. Ambulatory legs with dactyl longer than propodus and with many bristles along the ventral and dorsal faces; other segments with few bristles. Ventral face of the dactyl of second left ambulatory leg with rounded crest and series of rounded tubercles in the proximal portion and series of tufts of bristles immediately adjacent to both sides of the crest.
Distribution
. Western Atlantic—Bermuda, Florida, Antilles,
Venezuela
, north of South
America
and
Brazil
(from Amapá to São Paulo, including Atol das Rocas, Fernando de Noronha and banks off Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte).
Remarks
.
Dardanus venosus
is very close to
D. fucosus
; for distinctive characters see remarks in
D. fucosus
.