Clibanarius Dana 1852
Description
Clibanarius Dana, 1852
Remarks. The species of Clibanarius are restricted to the upper intertidal zone. Members of this genus tend to be tolerant of low salinities, often inhabiting estuaries and mangrove areas. Clibanarius includes the only known species of freshwater hermit crab from Vanuatu (Cl. fonticola, McLaughlin & Murray, 1990). Osawa & Fujita (2008: Table 1) provide a comprehensive overview of the geographic range and habitat preferences of the Indo-West Pacific species of Clibanarius.
There are 59 species of Clibanarius listed in McLaughlin et al. (2010), of which 43 are known from the Indo-West Pacific. Previous reports from the Philippines list 11 species (excluding two doubtful records of presumably West Atlantic species, Clibanarius antillensis and Cl. sclopetarius). The current report adds seven newly recorded species of Clibanarius, bringing the total species count for the Philippines to 18. As in Calcinus and several other diogenid genera, species identifications in Clibanarius depend principally on colour patterns, and in the absence of colouration several species are very difficult to identify.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Diogenidae
- Genus
- Clibanarius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Dana
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Clibanarius Dana, 1852 sec. Malay, Rahayu & Chan, 2018
References
- Dana JD (1852) Crustacea, part I. United States Exploring Expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., Vol. 13. C. Sherman, Philadelphia (Reprinted Antiquariaat Junk, Lochem, Netherlands, 1972), 685 pp.
- McLaughlin PA & Murray T (1990) Clibanarius fonticola n. sp. (Anomura: Paguridea: Diogenidae), from a freshwater pool on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 10 (4): 695 - 702.
- Osawa M & Fujita Y (2008) Clibanarius ambonensis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, south-western Japan. Marine Biodiversity Records, 1: e 16. doi: 10.1017 / S 1755267206001667
- McLaughlin PA, Komai T, Lemaitre R & Rahayu DL (2010) Annotated checklist of Anomuran Decapod Crustaceans of the world (Exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) - part I - Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. In: Low MEY & Tan SH (eds.) Checklists of Anomuran Decapod Crustaceans of the world (Exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) and Marine Lobsters of the World. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 23: 5 - 107.