Petrolisthes asiaticus
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Petrolisthes asiaticus (Leach, 1820)
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Pisidia asiatica Leach, 1820: 54 [type locality: Isle of France (Mauritius)]
Petrolisthes leporinoides Ortmann, 1892: 263 [type locality: South Seas]
Petrolisthes yaeyamensis Miyake, 1937b: 157, unnumbered fig. [type locality: Ishigaki Island, Ryukyu Islands]
Material examined. Cocos (Keeling) Islands: stn CK-08, Trannies Beach, West Island, 12°08.507’S, 96°49.095’E, intertidal, sandy beach with coral rubbles, 20 March 2011, 4 males (cl 8.1–9.8 mm), 1 female (cl 6.9 mm), ZRC 2013.0825; stn CK-25, Off William Keeling Crescent, Settlement, West Island, 12°11.544’S, 96°49.884’E, intertidal, sandy beach to reef flat with sea grass beds and rocky bottom, 24 March 2011, 3 males (cl 3.9–6.6 mm), 1 female (cl 3.8 mm), 1 ovigerous female (cl 6.8 mm), ZRC 2013.0826; stn CK2- 09, Westward reef flats, behind Tropika Restaurant, West Island, 12°11.297’S, 96°49.726’E, intertidal, exposed reef flats with sea grass patches, 6 February 2012, 1 male (cl;
8.7 mm), 1 ovigerous female (cl 7.2 mm), ZRC 2013.0827 256
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stn CK2-21, Trannies Beach, West Island, 12°08.507’S, 96°49.095’E, intertidal, 11 February 2012, 1 juvenile (cl 2.9 mm), 1 male (cl 10.4 mm), 1 female (cl 8.4 mm), 1 ovigerous female (cl 6.6 mm), ZRC 2013.0828.
Colour in life. The colouration of the present material agrees well with that provided by Osawa & Chan (2010: fig. 86), although the ground colouration varies from brown to bluish brown.
Distribution. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific. Indian Ocean: Seychelles, Mauritius, Gulf of Thailand,
Sumatra, Moluccas. Pacific Ocean: Philippines, Guangxi Province in China, Taiwan, southern Japan (from Izu Islands to Ryukyu Islands), Mariana Islands, Palau, northern Australia, Caroline Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tuvalu (Ellice Islands), Rotuma, Western Samoa, Phoenix Islands. Intertidal, found under rocks (Osawa & Chan, 2010). Now from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the southeastern Indian Ocean.
Remarks. The specimens examined agree well with the previous descriptions of P. asiaticus (e.g., Miyake, 1942; Kropp, 1984; Osawa & Chan, 2010).
-15. 257 Osawa: Porcellanidae from Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Petrolisthes asiaticus is the sole porcellanid species collected from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, but it was not obtained by the present expeditions to Christmas Island.
The Futuna specimen referred to P. haswelli Miers, 1884 by Poupin & Junker (2010: 129, fig. a) actually belongs to P. asiaticus because it has the characteristic colouration of the latter species and a dorsomedian longitudinal crest of short ridges on the palm of the cheliped.
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- ZRC
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- ZRC 2013.0825 , ZRC 2013.0826 , ZRC 2013.0828
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- 2011-03-20 , 2011-03-24 , 2012-02-06 , 2012-02-11
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- 2011-03-20 , 2011-03-24 , 2012-02-06 , 2012-02-11
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- Leach
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
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- Decapoda
- Family
- Porcellanidae
- Genus
- Petrolisthes
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- asiaticus
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- species
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- Petrolisthes asiaticus (Leach, 1820) sec. Osawa, 2014
References
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- Ortmann A (1892) Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Doderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. IV. Die Abtheilungen Galatheidea und Paguridea. Zoologischen Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 6: 241-326.
- Miyake S (1937 b) Note on Petrolisthes yaeyamensis sp. nov. (Anomura, Porcellanidae). Zoological Magazine, Tokyo, 49: 157-158.
- Osawa M & Chan TY (2010) Part III. Porcellanidae (Porcelain crabs). In: Chan TY. (ed.) Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan: Crablike Anomurans (Hippoidea, Lithodoidea and Porcellanidae). National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, pp. 67-181.
- Miyake S (1942) Studies on the decapod crustaceans of Micronsia. III. Porcellanidae. The Palau Tropical Biological Station Studies, 2: 329-379.
- Kropp RK (1984) Three new species of Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Anomura) from the Mariana Islands and a discussion of Borradaile's Petrolisthes lamarckii complex. Micronesica, 19: 91-106. [Issue dated December 1983]
- Milne Edwards H (1837) Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux, 2: 1-532, atlas, 32 pp., 42 pls. Librairie Encylopedique de Roret, Paris.
- Milne-Edwards A (1873) Description de quelques crustaces nouveaux ou peu connus provenant du Musee de M. C. Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, 4: 253-264.
- Miers EJ (1884) Crustacea. In: Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H. M. S. ' Alert' 1881 - 2. British Museum, London, pp. 178 - 322, 513-575.