Clibanarius sclopetarius (Herbst, 1796)

Malay, Maria Celia (Machel) D., Rahayu, Dwi Listyo & Chan, Tin-Yam, 2018, Hermit crabs of the genera Calcinus Dana, Clibanarius Dana, and Dardanus Paul’son from the PANGLAO 2004 Expedition, with description of a new species and a checklist of the hermit crabs of the Philippines (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66, pp. 23-65 : 60

Clibanarius sclopetarius (Herbst, 1796)

Cancer sclopetarius Herbst, 1796: 23 , pl. 23, Fig. 3 ( Cuba, type locality).

Clibanarius sclopetarius – Estampador, 1937: 501; Yap-Chiongco, 1938: 192–193; Estampador, 1959: 48.

Remarks. Yap-Chiongco (1938) “provisionally” identified 36 specimens from Mindoro and Palawan as Cl. sclopetarius . This cannot be verified since the specimens have been lost and there is insufficient detail in the texts to permit re-identification. Given that the known distribution of Cl. sclopetarius is in the Atlantic, reports of this species in the Philippines are highly doubtful. Yap-Chiongco (1938) and Estampador (1937; 1959) possibly confused Cl. rhabdodactylus with this species as these two species have similar banded legs (compare photos of the two species available in Legall & Poupin, 2016).

Figures

Fig. 3. A, Clibanarius longitarsus (De Haan, 1849). Specimen not measured and sexed, stn M52; B, Clibanarius merguiensis De Man, 1888. Male SL 3.5 mm, stn M51; C, Clibanarius serenei Rahayu & Forest, 1993. Male SL 3.6 mm, stn M11; D, Clibanarius snelliusi Buitendijk, 1937. Male SL 5.3 mm, stn M1; E, Clibanarius striolatus Dana, 1852. Specimen not measured and sexed, stn M9; F, Clibanarius virescens (Krauss, 1843). Male SL 4.1 mm, stn M8; G, Dardanus deformis (H. Milne Edwards, 1836). Female SL 8.8 mm, stn M3; H, Dardanus lagopodes (Forskål, 1775). Female SL 6.6 mm, stn M8.