Nematopaguroides pusillus Forest & Saint Laurent, 1968

Nucci, Paulo Ricardo & Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De, 2011, Hermit crabs from Brazil: Family Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea), except Pagurus, Zootaxa 3104, pp. 26-41 : 35

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Nematopaguroides pusillus Forest & Saint Laurent, 1968
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Nematopaguroides pusillus Forest & Saint Laurent, 1968 View in CoL

( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 I, 2I, 3I)

Nematopaguroides View in CoL ? pusillus View in CoL Forest & Saint Laurent, 1968: 159, figs 142–146. — Coelho & Ramos-Porto, 1986: 43. — Rieger, 1998: 417. — Melo, 1999: 118, fig. 64.

Nematopaguroides pusillus View in CoL .— Abele & Kim, 1986: 359, 386, 387, figs i–k. — McLaughlin et al., 2010: 31.

Material examined. Not available.

Diagnosis. Shield as broad as long. Rostrum rounded, tip triangular, exceeding lateral projections. Ocular peduncles long and slender, narrowed at midlength, corneae slightly dilated; ocular acicles triangular, broad at base, tip rounded, with acute subdistal spine inserted ventrally. Chelipeds short and robust, right stronger than left. First and second ambulatory legs of the right side longer than those of the left side. Males with right and left sexual tubes. Telson separated by shallow cleft into 2 slightly asymmetrical lobes, with short spines on inner margins.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: United States (Florida) and Brazil (Pernambuco).

Habitat. Type material collected from 75 m, on calcareous algae and corals.

Remarks. According to Forest & Saint Laurent (1968), they hesitated to establish a new genus based on a single specimen of N. pusillus , which has two sexual tubes. Although exceptional, this character was insufficient to establish a generic diagnosis. Thus, they accommodated N. pusillus in the genus already established.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Paguridae

Genus

Nematopaguroides

Loc

Nematopaguroides pusillus Forest & Saint Laurent, 1968

Nucci, Paulo Ricardo & Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De 2011
2011
Loc

Nematopaguroides pusillus

Abele 1986: 359
1986
Loc

Nematopaguroides

Melo 1999: 118
Rieger 1998: 417
Coelho 1986: 43
Forest 1968: 159
1968
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