Paguropsis confusa Lemaitre, Rahayu & Komai, 2018

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

Paguropsis confusa Lemaitre, Rahayu & Komai, 2018

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Paguropsis confusa ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda ; family: Paguroidea; genus: Paguropsis ; scientificNameAuthorship: Lemaitre, Rahayu & Komai, 2018; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: North Male’ ; minimumDepthInMeters: 247; maximumDepthInMeters: 251; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

A blanket-hermit crab with a sub-rectangular-shaped body. Has specialised chelate legs similar to ice-block tongs in shape. Approximately ~ 7 cm in the longest dimension. Colouration white with orange patches (Fig. 229).