Hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) from the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition, Japan * Author Rahayu, Dwi Listyo Marine Bio-industry Implementation Unit, Research Center for Oceanography, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Teluk Kodek, Kec. Pemenang, Lombok Utara 83352, NTB, Indonesia. E-mail: dwilistyo @ yahoo. com Author Osawa, Masayuki Research Center for Coastal Lagoon Environments, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu-cho, Matsue, Shimane, 690 - 8504 Japan. E-mail: osawam @ soc. shimane-u. ac. jp text Zootaxa 2012 2012-07-04 3367 1 176 190 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3367.1.17 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3367.1.17 1175-5326 5252070 Paguristes macrops Rahayu & Forest, 2009 ( Fig. 1E ) Paguristes macrops Rahayu & Forest, 2009: 1317 , figs. 3, 4. Material examined. 1 male 3.5 mm , Stn. Dredge 23, 26°16.380ʹN , 126°51.50ʹE , 12 November 2009 , 125 m (RUMF-ZC-1648); 2 females , 1.0 mm, 2.5 mm , Stn. Dredge 79, 26°14.686ʹN , 126°49.623ʹE , 20 November 2009 , 141– 165m ( NTOUA01223 ) . Remarks . Paguristes macrops is characterized by having rounded red spot on each of the mesial and lateral faces of the meri of the chelipeds and second and third pereopods. This character is also seen in P. gonagrus (H. Milne Edwards, 1836 ) , Paguristes balanophylus Alcock, 1905 , Paguristes alcocki McLaughlin & Rahayu, 2005 , Paguristes lewinsohni McLaughlin & Rahayu, 2005 , Paguristes aulacis Rahayu & Forest, 2009 , and Paguristes ocellus Komai, 2010, but there are morphological and other colour differences among these species. The specimens in the present study agree well with the original description and the colouration of Paguristes macrops , but minor differences are noted: the ocular peduncles that are shorter than the shield, and the mesial face of the dactyl of each cheliped has only one longitudinal row of tubercles. The specimens collected (2.54, 3.45 mm in shield length) are smaller than the specimens examined by Rahayu & Forest (2009 , 3.0– 9.1 mm in shield length), and too limited to evaluate whether these differences are only intraspecific variations or they warrant the separation of species. Distribution . The Philippines and now recorded from Kume Island, Japan ; 83– 165 m .