Clibanarius tricolor ( Gibbes, 1850 )

Nucci, Paulo Ricardo & Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De, 2015, Hermit crabs from Brazil: Family Diogenidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea), except Paguristes, Zootaxa 3947 (3), pp. 327-346 : 333-334

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.3.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6096686

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Clibanarius tricolor ( Gibbes, 1850 )
status

 

Clibanarius tricolor ( Gibbes, 1850) View in CoL

( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 C, 6A)

Pagurus tricolor Gibbes, 1850: 189 .

Clibanarius tricolor View in CoL .— Stimpson, 1858: 234.— Benedict, 1901a: 142, pl. 6, fig. 2.— Verrill, 1908: 447, figs 61–63.— Schmitt, 1924: 94; 1935: 200, fig. 61; 1939: 26.— Boone, 1927: 77.— Provenzano, 1959: 366, fig. 5A; 1960: 119; 1961: 153.— Coelho & Ramos-Porto, 1986: 51.— Rieger, 1998: 422.— Melo, 1999: 54, fig. 12.—McLaughlin et al., 2010: 20.

Clibanarius brachyops Bouvier, 1918: 9 View in CoL , fig. 3.

Clibanarius tricolor tricolor .— Forest & Saint Laurent, 1968: 102, fig. 61.— Coelho & Ramos, 1972: 169.

Material examined. Brazil: Pernambuco—Fernando de Noronha, 1 spec. (MZUSP-7216); Buraco do Inferno, 1 spec. (MZUSP-7274); Praia Boldró, 1 spec. (MZUSP-7273); 8 spec. (MZUSP-7272); Praia de Santo Antônio, 104 spec. (MZUSP-8648). Espírito Santo—Camburi, 6 spec. (MZUSP-8867).

Diagnosis. Shield subquadrate, longer than broad. Rostrum overreaching the lateral projections. Second right ambulatory leg longer than the corresponding on left side; no longitudinal stripes on ambulatory legs; a transverse orange band at proximal end of dactyl, propodus and carpus of each leg, except for the dactyl, with dominant color blue.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Bermuda, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Colombia and Brazil (Atol das Rocas, Fernando de Noronha and Espírito Santo).

Remarks. Clibanarius tricolor and C. antillensis are very close morphologically and when preserved specimens have no trace of color, the distinction between the two species can be difficult or even impossible. Nevertheless, specimens of two species with intact color pattern can be easily distinguished. Among the species of Clibanarius occurring in Brazil, only C. tricolor has transverse orange bands at the proximal ends of segments of the ambulatory legs; all other species show a pattern of coloration with longitudinal bands.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Diogenidae

Genus

Clibanarius

Loc

Clibanarius tricolor ( Gibbes, 1850 )

Nucci, Paulo Ricardo & Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De 2015
2015
Loc

Clibanarius tricolor tricolor

Coelho 1972: 169
Forest 1968: 102
1968
Loc

Clibanarius brachyops

Bouvier 1918: 9
1918
Loc

Clibanarius tricolor

Melo 1999: 54
Rieger 1998: 422
Coelho 1986: 51
Provenzano 1959: 366
Boone 1927: 77
Schmitt 1924: 94
Verrill 1908: 447
Benedict 1901: 142
Stimpson 1858: 234
1858
Loc

Pagurus tricolor

Gibbes 1850: 189
1850
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