Calcinus elegans
Description
Calcinus elegans (H. Milne Edwards, 1836)
(Fig. 1A)
Pagurus elegans H. Milne Edwards, 1836: 278, pl. 13, Fig. 2 (New Ireland, New Guinea, type locality).
Calcinus elegans – Estampador, 1937: 505; Yap-Chiongco, 1938: 206, pl. 2, Fig. 10; Estampador, 1959: 53; Haig & McLaughlin, 1984: 108; Wooster, 1984: 128–130; Haig & Ball, 1988: 159; Morgan, 1991: 274–276, Figs. 7–9; Gherardi & McLaughlin, 1994: 618; Poupin, 1997: 687, Figs. 2A, 3A, 4A; Asakura, 2002: 40–43, Figs. 7–8, Fig. 21C–D; McLaughlin et al., 2007: 155–156, unlabelled figures.
Material examined. 1 male SL 10.0 mm, 1 indiv. in shell (ZRC), stn M1, Alona Beach, Panglao I., 9°32.9′N, 123°46.6′E, 0–1 m, v.2004 to vii.2004; 1 male SL 4.8 mm (ZRC), stn M20, Pamilacan I., 9°29.3′N, 123º55.1′E, 0–2 m, 13.vi.2004; 1 male SL 5.4 mm (ZRC), stn M58, Balicasag I., 9°31.3′N, 123°41.0′E, depth unknown, 4.vii.2004.
Habitat. Intertidal to shallow subtidal, 0–2 m deep, on hard bottoms (coralline and rocky substrates).
Remarks. The name C. elegans previously included the Indo-West Pacific form, with bright blue bands on the pereopods, and the Hawai’ian form, with orange-red banded pereopods (Haig & McLaughlin, 1984; Hoover, 1998). However the consistent colour differences, the geographical separation of these two colour forms, and genetic evidence all suggest that they are distinct species (Malay & Paulay, 2010, Fig. 9). The Hawai’ian form should be properly named C. pictus (Owen, 1839) based on Owen’s (1839) description and colour illustration of specimens collected in Oahu (see also Legall & Poupin, 2016).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZRC
- Event date
- 2004-06-13 , 2004-07-04
- Family
- Diogenidae
- Genus
- Calcinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- H. Milne Edwards
- Species
- elegans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2004-06-13 , 2004-07-04
- Taxonomic concept label
- Calcinus elegans (Edwards, 1836) sec. Malay, Rahayu & Chan, 2018
References
- Milne Edwards H (1836) Observations zoologiques sur les Pagures et description d'un nouveau genre de la tribu des Paguriens. Annales des Sciences Naturelle Zoologie, Paris, (2) 6: 257 - 288.
- 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.
- McLaughlin PA & Haig J (1984) A review of Pagurixus (Decapoda Anomura Paguridae) and description of new species. Crustaceana, 47 (2): 121 - 148.
- Wooster DS (1984) The genus Calcinus (Paguridea, Diogenidae) from the Mariana Islands including three new species. Micronesica, 18 (2): 121 - 162.
- 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.
- Gherardi F & McLaughlin PA (1994) Shallow-water hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridea) from Mauritius and Rodrigues Islands, with the description of a new species of Calcinus. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 42 (3): 613 - 656.
- Poupin J (1997) Les pagures du genre Calcinus en Polynesie francaise avec la description de trois nouvelles especes (Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae). Zoosystema, 19: 683 - 719.
- Hoover J (1998) Hawai'i's Sea Creatures. A Guide to Hawai'i's Marine Invertebrates. Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, Hawaii, 366 pp.
- Malay MCD & Paulay G (2010) Peripatric speciation drives diversification and distributional patterns of reef hermit crabs (Decapoda: Diogenidae: Calcinus). Evolution, 64 (3): 634 - 662.
- Owen R (1839) Crustacea. In: Beechey FW (ed.) The Zoology of the Captain Beechey's Voyage; compiled from the collections and notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition, during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's straits performed in his majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey, in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28. Pp. 77 - 92, pl. 24 - 28.
- Legall N & Poupin J (2016) CRUSTA: Database of Crustacea (Decapoda and Stomatopoda), with special interest for those collected in French overseas territories. http: // crustiesfroverseas. free. fr /. (Accessed May 2016).