An annotated and illustrated checklist of the porcelain crabs of Panama (Decapoda: Anomura)
Author
Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo
0000-0003-1683-9962
Author
Anker, Arthur
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arthuranker7@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-27
5045
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
1175-5326
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Petrolisthes zacae
Haig, 1968
(
Figs. 76
,
77
)
Petrolisthes zacae
Haig, 1968: 63
, fig. 2, tab. 1;
Gore & Abele 1976: 25
;
Abele & Kim 1989: 22
;
Hiller
et al.
2004: 132
;
Hiller
et al
. 2006: 554
;
Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz 2007: 230
.
Material examined
.
None
from
Panama
.
Extra-limital
material.
Colombia
[Pacific]:
1 male
, cl 4.7, cw 4.2,
1 female
, cl 5.9, cw 6.0 (CERBMcr-UV:2009-103),
Bahía Málaga
,
La Sierpe
, rocky intertidal near small waterfall, under rocks, leg.
J.F. Lazarus-Agudelo
,
25.04.2009
(fcn COL-151, COL-152)
.
Previous records from
Panama
.
Gore & Abele (1976)
;
Gore (1982)
;
Abele & Kim (1989)
.
Distribution
. East Pacific:
Costa Rica
,
Panama
(
Panama
Canal area) and
Colombia
(
Gore & Abele, 1976
;
Gore, 1982
;
Hiller
et al.
, 2004
).
Ecology
. Largely intertidal; on exposed muddy banks of brackish mangrove swamps, dwelling in burrows and depressions in mud; also under rocks in muddy-rocky intertidal, close to waterfalls or creeks (
Gore & Abele 1976
;
Hiller
et al.
2004
; present study).
Remarks
.
Petrolisthes zacae
is most closely related to
P. robsonae
,
P. armatus
and
P. nobilii
, sharing with them the carapace not transversely striate; the P1 carpus with teeth on mesial margin; and the P2–P4 meri dorsally armed with spines. According to the molecular analysis of
Hiller
et al.
(2006)
,
P. zacae
is sister of
P. robsonae
, with the eastern Pacific and western Atlantic
P. armatus
representing in turn their sister clade.
Petrolisthes zacae
differs from
P. robsonae
,
P. armatus
and
P. nobilii
by the shape of the P2–P4 dactyli: long and slender, with a “thumblike” projection about halfway along ventral (lower) margin, tipped with a movable corneous spinule. This peculiar structure of the ambulatory dactylus is unique within
Petrolisthes
and likely represents some form of adaptation for living in muddy coditions, i.e. for walking on soft mud (
Haig 1968
). The colour pattern of
P. zacae
(
Figs. 76
,
77
) is illustrated for the first time.
Genus
Pisidia
Leach, 1820