Species Calcinus guamensis Wooster, 1984
- Calcinus guamensis Wooster, D.S. 1984. The genus Calcinus (Paguridea, Diogenidae) from the Mariana Islands, including three new species. Micronesica 18(2): 121-162 [141 fig. 4].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM ♂ (probable depository institution, specimen not located by Morgan, G.J. 1991. A review of the hermit crab genus Calcinus Dana (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) from Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(4): 869–913 [879]), Pago Bay, Guam, Mariana Islands.
Paratype(s) BPBM 26 specimens (probable depository institution, specimens not located by Morgan op. cit.), Guam and northern Mariana Islands; AHF 759 ♂, Guam.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Mariana and Hawai'ian Islands, Indonesia, probably southern Japan and Vietnam).
IMCRA
Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Province (27)
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, coral rubble, littoral, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Often amongst branches of living coral, inhabits shells of numerous small gastropods, depth to 20 m.
General References
Morgan, G.J. 1991. A review of the hermit crab genus Calcinus Dana (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) from Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(4): 869-913 [879] (Australian records)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 24-Apr-2012 | 24-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |