Dardanus megistos
Description
Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804)
(Fig. 4C)
Cancer megistos Herbst, 1804: 28, Fig. 1, pl. 61 (type locality unknown).
Pagurus punctulatus – Estampador, 1937: 503; Yap-Chiongco, 1938: 197–198; Estampador, 1959: 50.
Pagurus megistos – Fize & Serène, 1955: 160–166, Fig. 24, pl. 4 nos. 1–3.
Dardanus megistos – Haig & Ball, 1988: 166; Cassidy, 2005: 112–114, Figs. 13–14; McLaughlin et al., 2007: 94–95, 2 unlabellled figures.
Material examined. 1 male SL 12.2 mm (ZRC), stn M7, Momo Beach, Panglao I., 9°36.1′N, 123°45.2′E, 0–3 m, 1.vi.2004; 1 male SL 11.0 mm (ZRC), stn M8, Doljo, north coast, Panglao I., 9°35.4′N, 123°44.3′E, 0–1 m, 2.vi.2004; 1 male SL 26.2 mm (ZRC), stn N4, Alona Reef, Panglao I., 9°32.9′N, 123°46.9′E, 15–20 m, 10.vi.2004; 1 male 25.0 mm (ZRC), Balicasag I.,from tangle nets, 50–500 m, 28.xi.2001.
Habitat. Intertidal to subtidal, 0 to approximately 50 m deep, reef flats, seagrass beds, mangrove areas, and reef slopes, on rocky substrates.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZRC
- Event date
- 2001-11-28 , 2004-06-01 , 2004-06-02 , 2004-06-10
- Family
- Diogenidae
- Genus
- Dardanus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Herbst
- Species
- megistos
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2001-11-28 , 2004-06-01 , 2004-06-02 , 2004-06-10
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804) sec. Malay, Rahayu & Chan, 2018
References
- Estampador EP (1937) A checklist of Philippine crustacean decapods. Philippine Journal of Science, 62 (4): 465 - 559.
- Yap-Chiongco JV (1938) The littoral Paguridea in the collection of the University of the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science, 66: 183 - 219.
- Estampador EP (1959) Revised list of Philippine crustacean decapods. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, 17: 1 - 127.
- Fize A & Serene R (1955) Les Pagures du Vietnam. Institut Oceanographique Nhatrang, Note 45: ix, 1 - 228.
- Haig J & Ball EE (1988) Hermit crabs from northern Australian and eastern Indonesian waters (Crustacea Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) collected during the 1975 Alpha Helix Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum (1988), 40: 151 - 196.
- Cassidy PM (2005) Some shallow-water hermit crabs of the genus Dardanus Paul'son 1875 (Decapoda: Paguroidea: Diogenidae) from the Visayan region of the Philippines with notes on their color and ecology. Philippine Scientist, 42: 94 - 129.