On a new commensal species of Aliaporcellana from the western Pacific (Crustacea, Decapoda, Porcellanidae)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 08 Aug 2018Publisher:Pensoft PublishersJournal:ZooKeys, volume 780, pages 1-9 (issn: 1313-2989, eissn: 1313-2970,

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Authors: Alexandra Hiller; Bernd Werding;

doi: 10.3897/zookeys.780.26388 , 10.60692/1dane-2q727 , 10.60692/a8xj8-d3a16

pmid: 30127654

pmc: PMC6093969

On a new commensal species of Aliaporcellana from the western Pacific (Crustacea, Decapoda, Porcellanidae)

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Aliaporcellanaspongicolasp. n.from the Philippines and Indonesia is described. The new species has been frequently photographed by divers because of its striking coloration, but has not been described yet.Aliaporcellanaspongicolasp. n.is in fact a widespread commensal of barrel sponges of the genusXestospongiaand other sponges. Morphological characters and ecological information of all described species ofAliaporcellana, and of other porcellanids associated with sponges and soft corals, suggest that all members of the genus are commensals, and that similar morphological adaptations to dwelling on these hosts have evolved independently in different evolutionary lines within Porcellanidae.

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Keywords

commensalism, Porcellanidae, Arthropoda, Nephrozoa, Protostomia, Crustacean, Evolutionary biology, adaptation, Circumscriptional names of the taxon under, Eumalacostraca, Crustacea, Decapoda, Animalia, Bilateria, Malacostraca, Symbiosis, Indo-West Pacific, Biology, new species, Global and Planetary Change, Aliaporcellana, Ecology, Resilience of Coral Reef Ecosystems to Climate Change, Genus, Bacteria, Impacts of Crayfish Invasions on Freshwater Ecosystems, Paleontology, Cephalornis, Galatheoidea, Commensalism, Coral Microbiome, QL1-991, Notchia, FOS: Biological sciences, Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Fisheries, Environmental Science, Physical Sciences, Ecdysozoa, sponge- and octocoral-dwelling, Eucarida, Zoology, Coelenterata, Research Article

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