An annotated and illustrated checklist of the porcelain crabs of Panama (Decapoda: Anomura)
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Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo
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Author
Anker, Arthur
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-27
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
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10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
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Petrolisthes glasselli
Haig, 1957
(
Figs. 51–
53
,
89E
)
Petrolisthes glasselli
Haig 1957a: 33
, pl. 8, figs. 1–3;
Haig 1957b: 13
;
Haig 1960: 39
, pl. 20, fig. 2;
Haig 1968: 61
;
Gore & Abele 1976: 22
;
Werding & Haig 1982: 66
;
Hickman & Zimmerman 2000: 65
, unnumbered colour photograph;
Hiller
et al.
2006: 556
;
Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz 2007: 230
;
García-Madrigal & Andréu-Sánchez 2009: 33
, fig. 3, E, F.
Petrolisthes amoenus
.—
Boone 1932: 41
, figs. 11, 12 [not
Petrolisthes amoenus
(
Guérin-Méneville, 1855
)
].
FIGURE 51
.
Petrolisthes glasselli
Haig, 1957
: A, B, ovigerous female (cl 5.4 mm, cw 5.0 mm) from Coiba Island, Panama (FLMNH UF 57149), dorsal (A) and ventral (B) views [photographs by AA].
FIGURE 52
.
Petrolisthes glasselli
Haig, 1957
: A, B, male (cl 5.0 mm, cw 4.4 mm) from Coiba Island, Panama (FLMNH UF 57150), dorsal (A) and ventral (B) views [photographs by AA].
FIGURE 53
.
Petrolisthes glasselli
Haig, 1957
: A–C, male (cl 4.7 mm, cw 4.3 mm) from Coiba Island, Panama (FLMNH UF 57146), dorsal (A), ventral (B) and frontal (C) views [photographs by AA].
Material examined
.
Panama
[
Pacific
]:
1 male
, cl 4.5, cw 4.3 (
FLMNH
UF 57145
),
Coiba Is.
, off eastern coast of
Isla
Coiba
,
Isla
Granito de Oro
,
Mona Lisa
submerged rock,
7°35’39.9”N
,
81°42’45.3”W
, depth less than
8 m
, in dead
Pocillopora
heads, leg.
M. Leray
et al.
,
18.02.2019
(fcn PAN-052);
1 male
, cl 4.7, cw 4.3 (
FLMNH
UF 57146
), same collection data as for previous specimen (fcn PAN-050);
1 male
, cl 5.1, cw 4.7 (
FLMNH
UF 57147
), same collection data as for previous specimens (fcn PAN-049);
1 male
, cl 4.6, cw 4.4, 1 ov. female, cl 4.4, cw 4.1 (
FLMNH
UF 57148
),
Coiba Is
.,
Isla
de Afuera
, rocky intertidal and shallow subtidal with rocks, corals and coral rubble, depth at low tide
0–1 m
, in crevices of coral rubble, leg.
A. Anker
et al.
,
19.02.2019
(fcn PAN-104); 1 ov. female, cl 5.4, cw 5.0 (
FLMNH
UF 57149
), same collection data as for previous specimen (fcn PAN-103);
1 male
, cl 5.0, cw 4.4 (
FLMNH
UF 57150
),
Coiba Is
.,
Isla
Coiba
, northwest coast, small rocky island off
Bahía Santa Cruz
,
7°37’53.4”N
, 81°46”44.9”W, rocky plateau, under rocks and in rock crevices, leg.
M. Leray
et al
.,
20.02.2019
(fcn PAN-142)
.
Previous records from
Panama
. Haig (1957, 1960);
Gore & Abele (1976)
.
Distribution
. East Pacific:
Mexico
,
Costa Rica
,
Panama
(Coiba Is., Secas Is., Bahía Honda in
Veraguas
, Las Perlas Is.),
Colombia
and
Ecuador
(
Galápagos
) (
Haig 1960
;
Gore & Abele 1976
; García-Madrigal & Andréu- Sánchez 2009; present study).
Ecology
. Intertidal and shallow subtidal, known depth range:
0–12 m
; on rocky intertidal reefs and adjacent hard-bottom subtidal habitats rich in boulders, coral rubble and dead coral heads; under rocks or in crevices of rocks and dead corals, often found in interstices of living corals, such as
Pocillopora
and
Pavona
(
Haig 1960
,
1968
;
Werding & Haig 1982
;
Hickman & Zimmerman 2000
; García-Madrigal & Andréu-Sánchez 2007; present study).
Remarks
.
Petrolisthes glasselli
is the eastern Pacific sister of the western Atlantic
P. rosariensis
Werding, 1978
(
Hiller
et al.
2006
). The two species share many morphological characters, such as the presence of two epibranchial teeth; the P2–P4 dactyli with a row of four spines ventrally; and the absence of pubescence on the ventral side of the P1 palm (
Hiller
et al
. 2006
). However,
P. rosariensis
can be distinguished from
P. glasselli
by the convex lateral margin of the P1 palm (manus) and typically four instead of five teeth on the P1 carpus (Werding, 1982). Remarkably, despite their phylogenetic proximity,
P. glasselli
and
P. rosariensis
have very different colour patterns (cf.
Figs. 51–53
,
72
). The colour pattern of
P. glasselli
is in fact highly diagnostic among the eastern Pacific porcelain crabs, despite some variation observed in the Panamanian material (
Figs. 51–53
). The ventral side of most specimens is brightly coloured with deep carmin or wine-red (
Figs. 51
,
52
), although at least in
one male
, the red colour is much less conspicuous, also on the dorsal side (
Fig. 53
).