Pagurus conformis De Haan, 1849

Komai, Tomoyuki & Rahayu, Dwi Listyo, 2014, New records and new species of the hermit crab genus Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Philippines, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62, pp. 620-646 : 621

Pagurus conformis De Haan, 1849

Restricted synonymy.

Pagurus conformis De Haan, 1849: 204 [type locality: Japan]; Komai , 2004: 322, figs. 1–4; McLaughlin et al., 2007: 254, 255, unnumbered figs.; 2010: 33 (list), fig. 15E.

Eupagurus megalops Stimpson, 1858: 248 [type locality: East China Sea]; 1907: 216.

Pagurus megalops – Miyake, 1978: 84, fig. 31; 1982: 128, pl. 43, fig. 4.

Material examined. 1 male (sl 8.7 mm) ( ZRC 2014.0337 ), PANGLAO 2004, PN1, Balicasag Island , coll. local fisherman, 29 April 2004, tangle nets .

Distribution. Previously known from Japan, Taiwan, and East China Sea, at depths of 5– 190 m. Firstly recorded from the Philippines.

Remarks. The present specimen agrees well with the redescription of P. conformis by Komai (2004) except for the lack of a ventral median foramen of the carpus of the right cheliped. Komai (2004) believed that the presence of the foramen is diagnostic for P. conformis , but the present specimen shows that the character is possibly variable in this species. Similar variation in the presence or absence of the ventral foramen on the carpus of the right cheliped has been reported in P. cavicarpus (cf. McLaughlin & Forest, 1999).