Species Dardanus lagopodes (Forsskål, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer lagopodes Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [93].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Pagurus sanguinolentus Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1824. Crustacés. 522-524 pls 76-82 in Freycinet, L. de (ed.). Le voyage autour du Monde sur les corvettes l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817–1820. Paris : Pilet Ainé Vol. 3. [532 pl. 79 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, not determined.
• Pagurus affinis Milne Edwards, H. 1836. Observations zoologiques sur les Pagures et description d'un nouveau genre de la tribu des Paguriens. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 6: 257-288 pl. 13-14 [274].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, not determined.
• Pagurus euopsis Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea. U. S. Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia : C. Sherman Vol. 13 1618 pp. [Pt 1: 1–685; Pt 2: 686–1618] [7].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (presumed lost), Upolu, Samoa and Balabac Passage, Philippines.
• Pagurus depressus Heller, C. 1861. Synopsis der im rothen Meere vorkommenden Crustaceen. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 11: 3-32 [22].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NHMW, Red Sea.
• Dardanus hellerii Paul'son, O.M. 1875. Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea with Notes regarding other Seas. Part I. Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). Jerusalem : The Israel Program for Scientific Translations 164 pp. 21 pls. [reissued and translated by F.D. Por, 1961] [90 pl. 12 fig. 4a-c].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Red Sea.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Morgan, G.J. 1987. Hermit crabs (Decapoda, Anomura: Coenobitidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) of Darwin and Port Essington, northern Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 4(1): 165-186 [181]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa, Red Sea to Japan and east to Tahiti and Tuamotu Archipelago).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, reef flat, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Most typically found in broad-mouthed shells.

 

General References

Haig, J. & Ball, E.E. 1988. Hermit crabs from north Australian and eastern Indonesian waters (Crustacea Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) collected during the 1975 Alpha Helix Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum 40(3): 151-196 [166]

Tudge, C.C. 1995. Hermit Crabs of the Great Barrier Reef and Coastal Queensland. Brisbane : University of Queensland and Backhuys Publishers 40 pp. [25] (colour photograph)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
24-Apr-2012		02-Jul-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)