Records of four species of the shallow water hermit crab genus Diogenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern China, with description of a new species Author Komai, Tomoyuki Author Liang, Jingzhen Author Yang, Tingbao text Journal of Natural History 2012 2012-05-31 46 19 - 20 1219 1248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2011.654279 journal article 10.1080/00222933.2011.654279 1464-5262 5199955 Diogenes rectimanus Miers, 1884 Diogenes rectimanus Miers, 1884 , p. 262 , pl. 27, figure c [ type locality: Torres Strait]; Alcock 1905 , p. 71 , pl. 6, figure 8, 8a, pl. 7, figure 2, 2a; Wang 1991 , p. 226 , figure 185; McLaughlin and Clark 1997 , p. 37 , figure 10b; McLaughlin 2002b , p. 414 , figure 2A–C; McLaughlin et al. 2007 , p. 151 , unnumbered figure; McLaughlin et al. 2010 , p. 21 . Not Diogenes rectimanus – Lanchester 1902 , p. 366 . = Diogenes goniochirus Forest, 1956 and D. avarus Heller, 1865 . Material examined Haling Bay , Guandong Province , 20 ◦ 10.20 ′ N , 110 ◦ 56.40 ′ E , 10 m , sand, November 2007 , one male (sl 5.5 mm ; No. 10), CBM-ZC 10523; Shantou Bay , 23 ◦ 26.28 ′ N , 116 ◦ 53.41 ′ E , 10 m , mud, November 2007 , one female (sl 5.5 mm ; No. 11), CBM- ZC 10524 ; Leizhou Bay , Guandong Province , 21 ◦ 02.48 ′ N , 110 ◦ 39.54 ′ E , 10 m , sand, December 2006 , one male (sl 5.7 mm ), IOCAS-MBM 119740 ; Shantou Bay , 23 ◦ 21.26 ′ N , 116 ◦ 50.25 ′ E , 10 m , mud, one male (sl 5.3 mm ), IOCAS-MBM 119741 . Distribution Gulf of Aden , India, Sri Lanka , Thailand , Torres Straight , Australia, China , Taiwan ; intertidal to 36 m . Remarks Diogenes rectimanus is referred to the D. edwardsii species group ( Asakura and Tachikawa 2010 ), and is characterized by the following features: left chela with scattered stiff setae on outer surface, armed with sharp spines, forming longitudinal rows proximal to base of dactylus and on midline; carpi of second and third pereopods each with row of spinules on dorsal surface; propodi of third pereopod unarmed on dorsal margins; antennal peduncles clearly overreaching distal corneal margins; telson with spines continued onto lateral margins at least on left posterior lobe ( McLaughlin and Clark 1997 ; McLaughlin 2002b ; McLaughlin et al. 2007 ). The present specimens from Chinese waters agree well with D. rectimanus in every diagnostic aspect, fully confirming the occurrence of this species in Chinese waters.