Hermit crabs of Singapore (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae, Paguridae), with description of two new species
Author
Rahayu, Dwi Listyo
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2022
2022-05-31
70
329
363
journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2022-0017
2345-7600
7174641
6A65DD81-A22F-4901-8B2A-029695E4AB43
Diogenes inglei
McLaughlin & Clark, 1997
(
Fig. 9A, B
)
Diogenes inglei
McLaughlin & Clark, 1997: 34
, figs. 1, 2 (
type
locality:
Blakang Mati
,
Singapore
).
Material examined.
1 male
,
1.1 mm
(
ZRC 2021.0197
), st. DR87,
Outside Tanjong Rhu
,
1°16.899′N
103°53.825′E
, sand, mud,
19.5–20.7 m
,
4 November 2012
;
1 female
,
1.6 mm
(
ZRC 2021.0198
), st. TB5, beside
Sebarok
,
1°10.5′N
103°46.512′E
, rocky bottom,
63.8–64.1 m
,
20 May 2014
;
1 ovigerous female,
2.4 mm
(
ZRC 2021.0199
), st. DR208,
East of Semakau
,
South of Sebarok
,
1°11.149′N
103°47.702′E
, rock, barrel sponge,
17.4–24.7 m
,
24 September 2013
;
1 female
,
1.8 mm
(
ZRC 2021.0200
), no locality
;
1 male
,
1.1 mm
(
ZRC 2021.0201
), 2 ovigerous females,
1.3–1.8 mm
(
ZRC 2021.0201
), st. TB113,
South of Sisters’
Island
,
1°12.001′N
103°50.261′E
, rocky bottom,
29.3–30.5 m
,
29 May 2013
;
1 female
,
1.6 mm
(
ZRC 2021.0202
), st. DR174, near
Kusu Island
,
1°12.202′N
103°52.178′E
, red clay, dead shell,
79.6–135 m
,
4 June 2013
.
Colour in life.
Shield mottled with cream and light brown, with two brown spots proximally; ocular peduncle cream with red longitudinal stripes on dorsal and mesial faces; chelipeds mottled with cream and light brown, dactyl and fixed finger greenish brown; P2 and P3 cream, almost transparent, with greenish brown broad band, proximally on dactyls and carpi, subdistally and proximally on propodi, and medially and proximally on meri (
Fig. 9A, B
).
Distribution.
At present known only from
Singapore
;
17–135 m
, on rocky substrate.
Remarks.
This is the first record of the species after its description and also the first discovery of male specimens. The species is very characteristic in having tapering corneas, short antennal acicles, and subequal posterior lobes of the telson.
McLaughlin & Clark (1997)
described this species on the basis of
four female
specimens collected in
Singapore
in 1899. The female specimens examined in this study agree with the female
type
series. The male specimens differ from female specimens in its unarmed pleomere 6 (armed with a spine in female specimens, including the
type
specimens). The male pleopods are uniramous, typical of
Diogenes
. One specimen was found occupying the hole of a polychaete attached to a large rock (
Fig. 9A
).