Dardanus fucosus Biffar & Provenzano 1972
Description
Dardanus fucosus Biffar & Provenzano, 1972
(Figs 3 A, 6C)
Pagurias insignis Benedict, 1901b: 141 [part.].
Dardanus venosus.— Verrill, 1908a: 441, figs 58, 59, pl. 26, figs 4, 5 [part.].— Schmitt, 1935a: 201, fig. 62 [part.].— Provenzano, 1959: 374, fig. 6 [part.].— Holthuis, 1959: 153.— Cerame-Vivas, Williams & Gray, 1963: 157.— Williams, 1965: 123, fig. 99.
Petrochirus Diogenes. — Provenzano, 1963c: 242, figs 1–8.
Dardanus fucosus Biffar & Provenzano, 1972: 782, figs 1A–4A, 5B, 6B.— Williams, 1984: 196, fig. 136.— Coelho & Ramos-Porto, 1986: 50.— Rieger, 1998: 420.— Melo, 1999:60, fig. 16.—McLaughlin et al., 2010: 20.
Material examined. Brazil: Maranhão—Proj. Geomar, st. 1, 3 spec. (DOUFPE—3903).
Diagnosis. Shield slightly longer than broad; with a shallow depression, heart-shaped on the frontal region; lateral projections with spinule and setae at end. Major cheliped with external surface covered with scabrous tubercles separated by short fringes of fan-shaped bristles. Second left ambulatory leg markedly different from the others, with dactyl and propodus extended and with fringe of bristles; dactyl with shallow groove on the ventral face and 1 row of tufts of bristles on each side of this groove.
Distribution. Western Atlantic—from North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles and from Central America to Brazil (Amapá, Pará and Maranhão).
Remarks. The species of the genus Dardanus show remarkable similarity, which may make identification a problem. Dardanus fucosus and D. venosus are very close but can be distinguished by a shallow ventral groove in the dactyl of second left ambulatory leg of D. fucosus.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Diogenidae
- Genus
- Dardanus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Biffar & Provenzano
- Species
- fucosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dardanus fucosus Biffar, 1972 sec. Nucci & Melo, 2015
References
- Biffar, T. A. & Provenzano, A. J. (1972) A reexamination of Dardanus venosus (H. Milne Edwards) and D. imperator (Miers), with a description of a new species of Dardanus from the Western Atlantic (Crustacea, Decapoda, Diogenidae). Bulletin of Marine Science, 22 (4), 777 - 805.
- Benedict, J. E. (1901 b) The Anomuran Collections made by the " Fish Hawk " Expedition to Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 20 (2), 129 - 148.
- Verrill, A. E. (1908) Decapoda Crustacea of Bermudas. Part I. Brachyura and Anomura, their distribution, variation and habits. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences, 13, 299 - 474.
- Schmitt, W. L. (1935) Crustacea Macrura and Anomura of Porto rico and the Virgin Islands. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. New York Academy of Sciences, 15 (2), 125 - 227.
- Provenzano, A. J. (1959) The shallow-water hermit crabs of Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 9 (4), 349 - 420.
- Holthuis, L. B. (1959) The Crustacea Decapoda of Suriname (Dutch Guiana). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 44, 1 - 296.
- Cerame-Vivas, M. J., Williams, A. B. & Gray, I. E. (1963) New decapod crustacean records for the coast of North Carolina. Crustaceana, 5 (2), 157 - 159. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1163 / 156854063 X 00444
- Williams, A. B. (1965) Marine decapod crustaceans of the Carolinas. Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, 65 (1), 1 - 298.
- Provenzano, A. J. (1963 c) The Glaucothoes of Petrochirus diogenes (L.) and two species of Dardanus (Decapoda: Diogenidae). Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 13, 242 - 261.
- Williams, A. B. (1984) Shrimps, lobsters and crabs of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C. 550 pp.
- Coelho, P. A. & Ramos Porto, M. (1986) Sinopse dos crustaceos decapodos brasileiros (familias Callianassidae, Callianideidae, Upogebiidae, Parapaguridae, Paguridae, Diogenidae). Trabalhos Oceanograficos da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 19, 27 - 53. [Dated 1985, published 1986]
- Rieger, P. J. (1998) Malacostraca-Eucarida. Paguroidea. In: Young, P. S. (Ed.), Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 413 - 429.
- Melo, G. A. S. (1999) Manual de Identificacao dos Crustacea Decapoda do Litoral Brasileiro. Editora Pleiade. Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, 551 pp.