A new hermit crab species of the genus Catapaguroides A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and additional record of C. foresti McLaughlin

作者：Komai Tomoyuki^*; Yamada Yusuke; Shirakawa Naoki

来源：Zootaxa, 2010, (2690): 32-42.

• Crustacea
• Decapoda
• Anomura
• Paguridae
• Catapaguroides
• new species
• synonym
• submarine cave
• Ryukyu Islands

Two species of the pagurid genus Catapaguroides A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1892, C. longior n. sp. and C. foresti McLaughlin, 2002, are reported herein. The new species is described on the basis of a single male specimen collected from a submarine cave at Onna Village, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, at a depth of 30 m. In general morphology, it is most similar to C. inermis de Saint Laurent, 1968, but is readily distinguished from that species by the elongate antennal acicle and the broad carpus of the right cheliped. Examination of newly collected specimens from Japan led us to conclude that C. kasei Osawa & Takeda, 2004 is a junior subjective synonym of C. foresti McLaughlin, 2002. An emended key to the presently recognized species of the genus is provided.

• 出版日期2010-11-29