Pagurus capillatus
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Pagurus capillatus (Benedict, 1892a)
(Fig. 42H, I)
Eupagurus capillatus Benedict, 1892a: 8.
Pagurus capillatus. — Holmes 1900: 138. — Rathbun 1904: 157, pl. 4, fig. 3. — Schmitt 1921: 132, fig. 85. — Makarov 1962: 208, pl. 3, fig. 2. — McLaughlin 1974: 93, figs. 22, 23. — Hart 1982: 154, fig. 59. — Wicksten 1989b: 314. — Lemaitre & Castaño 2004: 77.
Diagnosis. Rostrum low, about as long as lateral projections of carapace. Eyestalk long, slender; cornea slightly dilated, ocular s pointed. Major cheliped setose, dorsal surface with spines, mesial margin with serrate margin, outer margin with low teeth, fingers slender. Minor cheliped setose; carpus with proximal row of dorsal spines, scattered larger distal spines; hand with rows of spinules, row of small spines on dactyl, fingers slender. Pereopods 2, 3 slender, setose; carpi of first legs serrate on dorsal margins; dactyls longer than propodi, with ventral spines. Telson asymmetrical, with lateral notches, terminal concavity, terminal teeth. Uropods asymmetrical. Carapace length to 26 mm.
Color in life. Ground color whitish. Chelipeds with merus having bands of rose, brown; carpus with apricot spines and mottling of brown, red; hand light brown, fingers with apricot apices. Pereopods 2, 3 with ischium splotched with pink, red and yellow; merus banded in red and brown, carpus and propodus each with 2 bands, dactyl greenish yellow. Eyestalk with outer rose stripe, inner brown stripe, cornea black with gold flecks. Antennal flagellum translucent. In life, color often obscured by silt on setae (Hart 1982).
Habitat and depth. Muddy subtidal areas, 4–439 m.
Range. Northwestern Pacific, Chukchi Sea; Bering Sea to off Santa Cruz, California. Type locality Norton Sound, Alaska.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Paguridae
- Genus
- Pagurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Benedict
- Species
- capillatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pagurus capillatus (Benedict, 1892) sec. Wicksten, 2012
References
- Benedict, J. E. (1892 a) Preliminary descriptions of thirty-seven new species of hermit crabs of the genus Eupagurus in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 15, 1 - 16.
- Holmes, S. J. (1900) Synopsis of California stalk-eyed Crustacea. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 7, 12 - 62.
- Rathbun, M. J. (1904) Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 10, 1 - 219.
- Schmitt, W. L. (1921) The marine decapod Crustacea of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, 23, 1 - 470.
- Makarov, V. V. (1962) Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Crustacea. Volume X, no. 3. Anomura. National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. 283 pp.
- McLaughlin, P. A. (1974) The hermit crabs (Crustacea Decapoda, Paguridea) of northwestern North America. Zoologische Verhandelingen Uitgegeven door het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden, 130, 1 - 396.
- Hart, J. F. L. (1982) Crabs and their Relatives of British Columbia. British Columbia Provincial Museum Handbook 40, Victoria, 267 pp.
- Wicksten, M. K. (1989 b) Ranges of offshore decapod crustaceans in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 21, 291 - 316.
- Lemaitre, R. & Castano, C. (2004) A new species of Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 from the Pacific coast of Colombia, with a checklist of eastern Pacific species of the genus. Nauplius, 12, 71 - 82.