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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Clibanarius vittatus
(
Bosc, 1802
)
(
Figs 2
D, 6B)
Pagurus vittatus
Bosc, 1802
: 78
, pl. 12, fig. 1.—
Gibbes, 1850
: 189
.
Pagurus symmetricus
.—
Randall, 1840
: 133
.
Clibanarius vittatus
.—
Stimpson, 1858
: 235
; 1859: 84.—
Smith, 1869
: 18
, 39.—
Ives, 1891
: 183
, pl. 5, figs 3, 4.—
Rathbun, 1900
: 144
.—
Moreira, 1901
: 28
, 87.—
Hay & Shore, 1918
: 410
.—
Wass, 1955
: 148
.—
Provenzano, 1959
: 371
, fig. 5D.—
Holthuis, 1959
: 141
, figs 26a, b, 27.—
Williams, 1965
: 120
, fig. 97; 1984: 194, fig. 135.—
Forest & Saint Laurent, 1968
: 104
.—Sánchez & Campos, 1978: 32, fig. 9.—
Coelho & Ramos-Porto, 1986
: 52
.—
Rieger, 1998
: 422
.—
Melo, 1999
: 56
, fig. 14.—McLaughlin
et al
., 2010: 20.
Clibanarius cayennensis
Miers, 1877
: 657
, pl. 66, fig. 1.
Clibanarius speciosus
Miers, 1877
: 658
, pl. 66, fig. 3.
Material examined
.
Venezuela
: Laguna de Cacariqua, 1 spec. (MZUSP-10746).
Brazil
: Amapá—St. Ecol. Maracá, 5 spec. (MZUSP-12215). Pará—Marapanim, 11 spec. (MZUSP-4588); 15 spec. (MZUSP-4589); 3 spec. (MZUSP-4577); 10 spec. (MZUSP-4590); 14 spec. (MZUSP-4585). Sergipe— Aracajú, Quatro Bocas, 1 spec. (MZUSP-6988). Espírito Santo—Rio Doce, 1 spec. (MZUSP-608). Rio de Janeiro—3 spec. (MZUSP-596); 3 spec. (MZUSP-613); Mauá, 1 spec. (MZUSP-88);
Ilha
Grande, 1 spec. (MZUSP-4581); Manguinhos, 2 spec. (MZUSP-4578);
Ilha
do Governador, 9 spec. (MZUSP-8857). São Paulo—Ubatuba, Praia de Itaguá, 1 spec. (MZUSP-4583); São Sebastião, 18 spec. (MZUSP-597); Praia Araçá, 72 spec. (MZUSP-13004); 48 spec. (MZUSP-13005); Saco Grande, 1 spec. (MZUSP-13001); Santos, 2 spec. (MZUSP-13336); 1 spec. (MZUSP-13335); 1 spec. (MZUSP-13359); 1 spec. (MZUSP-13331);
Ilha
Porchat, 2 spec. (MZUSP-12864); 1 spec. (MZUSP-12866);
São Vicente
, 7 spec. (MZUSP-595); Cananéia, 1 spec. (MZUSP-6990); 1 spec. (MZUSP-6989); 3 spec. (MZUSP-13307); 2 spec. (MZUSP-13332); 5 spec. (MZUSP- 13329); 1 spec. (MZUSP-13333); Praia da Trincheira, 10 spec. (MZUSP-7287);
Ilha
do Cardoso, 1 spec. (MZUSP-7030). Paraná—Paranaguá, 1 spec. (MZUSP-7501). Santa Catarina—Praia Daniela, 1 spec. (MZUSP- 9430); foz do rio Massiambú, 2 spec. (MZUSP-7031); Palhoça, enseada do Brito, 1 spec. (MZUSP-6663); 1 spec. (MZUSP-6664).
Diagnosis
. Shield with anterior margins straight, anterolateral margins oblique forming obtuse angle with anterior margins. Rostrum small, acute, triangular. Ocular peduncles shorter than anterior width of shield. Antennal peduncles with last segment less than 2.5 times as long as broad. Propodi of ambulatory legs with 4 thin light stripes on lateral face, separated by broad dark stripes.
Distribution
. Western Atlantic—Virginia, Carolinas, Florida, Gulf of
Mexico
, Antilles,
Venezuela
,
Suriname
and
Brazil
(from Amapá to Santa Catarina).
Remarks
. In the diagnosis, we presented some morphological characters that distinguish
C. vittatus
from
C. sclopetarius
, based on
Holthuis (1959)
. Nevertheless,
Forest & Saint Laurent (1968)
examined specimens of the two aforementioned species and failed to distinguish them based on the characters proposed by
Holthuis (1959)
. Therefore, it is difficult to distinguish the two species based only on morphological characters. Fortunately, the two species maintain the color pattern for a long time when preserved in alcohol.