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Komai & Rahayu: Pagurus from the Philippines
New records and new species of the hermit crab genus Pagurus
Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from
the Philippines
Tomoyuki Komai
1
& Dwi Listyo Rahayu
2
Abstract. Although Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 is the most species-rich genus in the hermit crab family Paguridae, only
two species of the genus, P. hirtimanus (Miers, 1880) and P. spinulentus (Henderson, 1888), were heretofore known
from the Philippines. In this paper, 10 species of the genus, including eight firstly recorded from the Philippines, are
reported from the Bohol Sea, based on a collection made during the PANGLAO 2004 Marine Biodiversity Project:
P. conformis De Haan, 1849, P. confusus Komai & Yu, 1999, P. fungiformis Komai & Rahayu, 2004, P. hirtimanus,
P. kaiensis McLaughlin, 1997, P. kulkarnii Sankolli, 1962, P. moluccensis Haig & Ball, 1988, P. pergranulatus
(Henderson, 1896), P. spinulentus, and P. truncatispinosus, new species. Pagurus truncatispinosus, new species,
is compared with P. carpoforaminatus (Alcock, 1905), P. cavicarpus Paul’son, 1875, P. conformis, P. spinossior
Komai, Reshmi & Biju Kumar, 2013, and P. spinulentus. Detailed descriptions and illustrations are provided for P.
pergranulatus and P. spinulentus because no modern descriptions are available for these two species so far.
Key words. Bohol Sea, Pagurus truncatispinosus, new species, PANGLAO 2004 Biodiversity Project
RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 62: 620–646
Date of publication: 10 September 2014
http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DF60AAD1-1B35-4328-9131-E3ADFC06B6AD
© National University of Singapore
ISSN 2345-7600 (electronic) | ISSN 0217-2445 (print)
1
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 955-2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba,
260-8682 Japan; Email: komai@chiba-muse.or.jp
2
Marine Bio-Industry Technical Implementation Unit, Mataram, Research Center
for Oceanography, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Teluk Kodek, Pemenang,
Lombok Barat, NTB, Indonesia; Email: dwilistyo@yahoo.com
Taxonomy & Systematics
INTRODUCTION
Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 is the most species-rich hermit
crab genus in the family Paguridae, represented by about
170 species worldwide (McLaughlin et al., 2010), though
its heterogeneity has long been suggested (e.g., Forest & de
Saint Laurent, 1968; McLaughlin, 1974, 1997; Komai, 1998,
1999; McLaughlin & Forest, 1999; Olguín & Mantelatto,
2013). The taxonomy of species assigned to the genus has
been clarified mainly based on regionally based studies (e.g.,
McLaughlin, 1974, 1975, 1997; Haig & McLaughlin, 1991;
Harvey & McLaughlin, 1991; Ingle, 1993; McLaughlin
& Haig, 1993; Sandberg & McLaughlin, 1993; Komai &
Imafuku, 1996; Komai, 1998, 1999, 2000a, b, 2003a, b, 2004;
Komai & Yu, 1999; McLaughlin & Forest, 1999; de Saint
Laurent & McLaughlin, 2000; Komai & Mishima, 2003;
Komai & Rahayu, 2004; Komai et al., 2011), though there
are still many species to be redescribed in modern standard
or to be reassessed. From the Philippines, only two species
of the genus have been recorded (Estampador, 1959), i.e., P.
hirtimanus (Miers, 1880) [as P. janitor (Alcock, 1905)] and
P. spinulentus (Henderson, 1888), in spite of the expected
high diversity of the marine fauna in the area.
This study deals with a collection of species of the genus
Pagurus made during the PANGLAO 2004 Marine
Biodiversity Project, which was carried out in the Bohol
Sea, the Philippines. This expedition resulted in extensive
collection of marine decapod crustaceans (Bouchet et al.,
2009), and several taxonomic reports on hermit crabs based
upon the collection have been published (McLaughlin &
Rahayu, 2007; McLaughlin, 2008; McLaughlin & Lemaitre,
2009; Rahayu & Forest, 2009; Asakura, 2010; Komai, 2013;
Komai & Rahayu, 2013a, b, c; Rahayu & Komai, 2013).
Herein, the following ten species of Pagurus are reported:
P. conformis De Haan, 1849, P. confusus Komai & Yu, 1999,
P. fungiformis Komai & Rahayu, 2004, P. hirtimanus, P.
kaiensis McLaughlin, 1997, P. kulkarnii Sankolli, 1962, P.
moluccensis Haig & Ball, 1988, P. pergranulatus (Henderson,
1896), P. spinulentus and P. truncatispinosus, new species.
Except for P. hirtimanus and P. spinulentus, the species
mentioned above are recorded from the Philippines for the
first time. The new species, P. truncatispinosus, is compared
with P. carpoforaminatus (Alcock, 1905), P. cavicarpus
Paul’son, 1875, P. conformis De Haan, 1849, P. spinossior
Komai, Reshmi & Biju Kumar, 2013, and P. spinulentus.
Differentiating characters between the new species and
its close relatives are discussed. Detailed descriptions
and illustrations are provided for P. pergranulatus and P.
spinulentus, since no modern descriptions are available for
these two species.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
The PANGLAO 2004 Marine Biodiversity Project was
conducted in 2004 jointly by scientists from the Muséum
national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris; National Taiwan Ocean