Pagurixus haigae Komai & Osawa, 2007

Komai, Tomoyuki, Rahayu, Dwi Listyo & Fujita, Yoshihisa, 2021, Hermit crabs of the family Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean Territory of Australia, with descriptions of three new species and reappraisal of the genus Kumepagurus Komai & Osawa, 2012, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69, pp. 378-402 : 397

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2021-0059
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7171584
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scientific name	Pagurixus haigae Komai & Osawa, 2007
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Pagurixus haigae Komai & Osawa, 2007 View in CoL

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Pagurixus laevimanus View in CoL – McLaughlin & Haig, 1984: 142, fig. 7. Not Pagurixus laevimanus ( Ortmann, 1892) View in CoL .

Pagurixus haigae Komai & Osawa, 2007: 97 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , figs. 1–4; Komai, 2010: 1287 View Cited Treatment ; Komai & Poupin, 2013: 192 View Cited Treatment , fig. 1A; Komai & Rahayu, 2013: 134 View Cited Treatment ; Arima, 2014: 188, unnumbered figs.; Bourjon et al., 2018: 454, table 1.

Material examined. COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS. QM W29568, 1 male (sl 1.3 mm), CK08, Trannies Beach , West Island, 12°08.507′S, 96°49.095′E, 20 March 2011 GoogleMaps ; ZRC 2021.0647 View Materials , 1 male (sl 1.4 mm; photo), 1 female (sl 1.2 mm), CK19, S of Direction Island , 12°05.503′S, 96°52.904′E, 6.9 m, 22 March 2011 GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific: Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Phuket ( Thailand), Europa Island ( Mozambique Strait), and Réunion; coral reef, intertidal to 20 m ( Komai & Osawa, 2007; Komai, 2010; Komai & Poupin, 2013; Komai & Rahayu, 2013; Bourjon et al., 2018). Newly recorded from Cocos (Keeling) Islands, intertidal to 6.9 m.

Remarks. The specimens examined agree well with the original description of Pagurixus haigae (cf. Komai & Osawa, 2007).

References

Arima H (2014) Hermit Crab Illustrated. Seibundo-shinko-sha, Tokyo, 223 pp. [In Japanese]

Bourjon P, Ducarme F, Quod J-P & Sweet M (2018) Involving recreational snorkelers in inventory improvement or creation: A case study in the Indian Ocean. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 59: 451 - 460.

Komai T & Osawa M (2007) A new species of the hermit crab genus Pagurixus Melin (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 55 (1): 97 - 105.

Komai T (2010) New species and new records of the hermit crab genus Pagurixus Melin, 1939 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Natural History, 44: 1269 - 1432.

Komai T & Poupin J (2013) Records of the hermit crab genus Pagurixus Melin, 1939 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from Europa Island, western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 3608: 191 - 203.

Komai T & Rahayu DL (2013) Records of the hermit crab genus Pagurixus Melin, 1939 (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from shallow coral reefs in the Panglao Islands, the Philippines, with description of a new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 61: 133 - 141.

McLaughlin PA & Haig J (1984) A review of Pagurixus (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae) and descriptions of new species. Crustaceana, 47 (2): 121 - 148.

Ortmann AE (1892) Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Doderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen, IV. Die Abtheilungen Galatheidea und Paguridea. Zoologischen Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 6: 241 - 326, pls. 11, 12.

Figures

Fig. 8. Habitus in dorsal view, showing living colouration. A, Micropagurus polynesiensis (Nobili, 1905), ZRC 2021.0632, male (sl 1.7 mm); B, Pagurixus carinimanus Komai & Osawa, 2006, ZRC 2021.0635, male (sl 2.0 mm); C, Pagurixus haigae Komai & Osawa, 2007, ZRC 2021.0647, male (sl 1.4 mm); D, Pagurixus maorus (Nobili, 1906), ZRC 2021.0638, female (sl 3.9 mm). Photographs by LKCNHM.