Identity of Pagurus watasei (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2013 English Publisher:Japanese Society of Systematic ZoologyJournal:Species Diversity, volume 18, pages 39-44 (issn: 1342-1670, eissn: 2189-7301,

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Authors: Osawa, Masayuki;

doi: 10.12782/sd.18.1.039

Identity of Pagurus watasei (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea)

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Abstract

The diogenid hermit crab taxon Dardanus watasei (Terao, 1913) has been suggested to be a possible junior synonym of D. scutellatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1848). Re-examination of the holotype and three additional specimens referred to the taxon Pagurus watasei by Terao himself, however, has shown that it is conspecific with Dardanus aspersus (Berthold, 1845), and consequently Pagurus watasei is placed in the synonymy of the latter species.

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Diogenidae, Arthropoda, Japan, Crustacea, Decapoda, Dardanus, Animalia, synonym, Biodiversity, Malacostraca, Taxonomy

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