Species Pagurus hirtimanus (Miers, 1880)
- Eupagurus hirtimanus Miers, E.J. 1880. On a collection of Crustacea from the Malaysian Region. Part III. Crustacea Anomura and Macrura (except Penaeidea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5(29): 370-384 pl. 14 figs 6-8 pl. 15 figs 1-7 [375].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Philippines and Fiji. - Pagurus hirtimanus White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [60] [nom. nud.].
Type data:
Syntype(s).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [186]
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Red Sea to Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, New Guinea and Fiji).
IMCRA
Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Low intertidal, sand bottom, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth to 15 m.
General References
Lewinsohn, Ch. 1969. Die Anomuren des Roten Meeres (Crustacea Decapoda: Paguridea, Galatheidea, Hippidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 104: 1-213 [63] (discussed differences between P. sinuatus (Stimpson, 1858) and P. hirtimanus)
Stephenson, W., Endean, R. & Bennett, I. 1958. An ecological survey of the marine fauna of Low Isles, Queensland. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 9: 261-318 figs 1-2 pls 1-11 (recorded from Low Isles, N QLD, under the name Pagurus janitor Alcock, 1905)
History of changes
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