Species Dardanus crassimanus (H. Milne Edwards, 1836)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pagurus crassimanus 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 [277].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, South Seas.
• Pagurus sculptipes Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Anomura: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 225-252 [246].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Kagoshima Bay, Japan.
• Pagurus pavimentatus Hilgendorf, F. 1879. Die von Herrn W. Peters in Moçambique gesammelten Crustaceen, bearbeitet von Herrn Dr. F. Hilgendorf. Monatsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 782-851 pls 1-4 [816 pl. 3 figs 1-5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Mosambique.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Morgan, G.J. 1989. The hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae, Paguridae) of southwestern Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Records of the Australian Museum 14(3): 391-417 [405]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (East Africa to Japan).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Reef, rock bottom, seagrass, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

On Zostera flats, depth to 30 m.

 

General References

Miyake, S. 1978. The Crustacea Anomura of Sagami Bay. Tokyo : Biological Laboratory Imperial Household 200 pp. [English], 161 pp. [Japanese], 4 pls. [61]

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] (commented that D. crassimanus and D. setifer are very similar and may have been confused in the past)

Tudge, C.C. 1995. Hermit Crabs of the Great Barrier Reef and Coastal Queensland. Brisbane : University of Queensland and Backhuys Publishers 40 pp. [18] (colour photograph)

 

History of changes

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