Abstract
The taxonomy of two Indo-West Pacific species of pilumnid crabs, Pilumnus scabriusculus Adams & White, 1849, and P. sluiteri De Man, 1892, is clarified. Pilumnus sluiteri has long being synonymised under P. scabriusculus but re-examination of the types and other material shows that there are distinct differences between them, notably in the form of the carapace, mouthparts, chelipeds and male first pleopods. They are here regarded as two distinct species.References
Adams, A. & White, A. (1849) Crustacea. In: Adams, A. (Ed.) The Zoology of the voyage of HMS Samarang under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1843–1846. Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, London, viii + 66 pp., pls. 7–13. [For date of publication see Sherborn 1922: cxi].
Alcock, A. (1898) Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The Family Xanthidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 67(2), No. 1, 67–233.
Balss, H. (1933) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Gattungen Pilumnus (Crustacea Dekapoda) und verwandter Gattungen. Capita Zoologica, 4(3), 1–47, pls. 1–7.
Balss, H. (1938) Ueber einige Xanthidae (Crustacea Dekapoda) von Singapore und Umgebung. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 14, 48–63, pls. 2, 3.
Clark, P.F., Harrison, K. & Goodman, S.L. (1990) Brock's Indian Archipelago Decapoda and Stomatopoda by De Man: 1887 or 1888? Archives of Natural History, London, 17(1), 79–80.
Clark, P.F. & Ng, P.K.L. (2005) Two zoeal stages and the megalop of Pilumnus sluiteri De Man, 1892 [Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthoidea: Pilumnidae] described from laboratory reared material. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, Israel, 45(3), 205–219.
Davie, P.J.F. (2002) Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda Anomura, Brachyura. In: Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (Eds.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 19.3B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, xiv + 641 pp.
Forskål, P. (1775) Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere orientali observavit. Petrus Forskal. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Hafniae, pp. 1–9, i–xxxiv, 1–164, 1 map.
Klunzinger, C.B. (1913) Die Rundkrabben (Cyclometopa) des Roten Meeres. Nova Acta Academiae Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicum Naturae Curiosorum, 99, 97–402, figs. 1–14, pls. 5–11.
Lanchester, W.F. (1901) The Crustacea of the "Skeat" Expedition to the Malay Peninsula, together with a note on the genus Actaeopsis. Part 1, Brachyura, Stomatopoda and Macrura. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1901, 534–574, pls. 33, 34.
Lenz, H. (1905) Ostafrikanische Dekapoden und Stomatopoden. Gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr A. Voeltzkow. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Reisen in Madagaskar und Ostafrika in den Jahren 1889–95, Bd. III, Abhandlungen hrsg. von der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 27(4), 341–392, pls. 47–48.
De Man, J.G. (1888) Bericht über die von Herrn Dr. J. Brock im indischen Archipel gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 53(1), 215–600, pls. 7–22, 22a [for publication date, see Clark et al. 1990].
De Man, J.G. (1892) Decapoden des Indischen Archipels. In: Weber, M. (Ed.) Zoologische Ergebnisse einer reise in Niederl:ndisch Ost-Indien, 2, 265–527, pls. 15–30.
De Man, J.G. (1929) Decapoda and Stomatopoda from Pulau Berhala. Miscellanea Zoologica Sumatrana, 36, 1–3.
Miers, E.J., (1886) Part II. Report on the Brachyura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. In: Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876 under the command of Captain George S. Nares, N.R., F.R.S. and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the Superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S. &c. Regius Professor of Natural history in the University of Edinburgh of the civilian scientific staff on board and now of John Murray one of the naturalists of the Expedition. Zoology, 17(2), i–l + 1–362, pls. 1–29.
Milne Edwards, H. (1834) Histoire naturelle des Crustacès, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux, I, xxxv + 468 pp., tabs. 3. Librairie de Roret, Paris.
Minemizu, R. (2000) Marine decapod and stomatopod crustaceans mainly from Japan. Bun-Itsu Sougou Shuppan Ltd., Tokyo, 344 pp. [In Japanese]
Miyake, S. (1983) Japanese crustacean decapods and stomatopods in color. Vol. II. Brachyura (Crabs). Osaka: Hoikusha Publishing Co., vii + 277 pp.
Nagai, S. & Nomura, K. (1988) Crustacea (Brachyura) [The guide book of marine organisms of Okinawa], 7, 1–250. Shinsei Tosho, Okinawa. [In Japanese]
Naiyanetr, P. (1998) Checklist of crustacean fauna in Thailand (Decapoda and Stomatopoda). OEPP Biodiversity Series, vol. 5. Office of Environment Policy and Planning, 161 pp.
Ng, P.K.L. (2003) The Indo-Pacific Pilumnidae XVII. On the identity of Pilumnus elatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Journal of the National Taiwan Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 56 (1), 15–28.
Ng, P.K.L. & Clark, P.F. (2000) The Indo‑Pacific Pilumnidae XII. On the familial placement of Chlorodiella bidentata (Nobili, 1901) and Tanaocheles stenochilus Kropp, 1984 using adult and larval characters with the establishment of a new subfamily, Tanaochelinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Natural History, London, 34(2), 207–245.
Ng, P.K.L. & Davie, P.J.F. (2002) A checklist of the brachyuran crabs of Phuket and western Thailand. In: Bruce, N.L., Berggren, M. & Bussawarit, S. (Eds.) Biodiversity of Crustacea of the Andaman Sea. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Biodiversity of Crustacea in the Andaman Sea. Phuket Marine Biological Center, 29 November to 20 December 1998. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication, 23(2), 369–384.
Ng, P.K.L., Wang, C.‑H., Ho, P.‑H. & Shih, H.‑T. (2001) An annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, Taipei, Taiwan, 11, 1–86, 8 colour pls.
Ortmann, A. (1893) Abtheilung: Brachyura (Brachyura genuina Boas) II. Unterabtheilung: Cancroidea, 2. Section: Cancrinea, 1. Gruppe: Cyclometopa. Hierzu Tafel 17. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. VII. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Jena, (Systematik), 7, 411–495, pl. 17.
Sakai, T. (1939) Brachygnatha, Brachyrhyncha. Studies on the Crabs of Japan 4, 365–741, 1–129, pls. 42–111, tab. 1.
Sakai, T. (1976) Crabs of Japan and Adjacent Seas. Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo. xxxix + 773 pp., figs 1–379, pl. 1–251. [In 3 volumes: (1) English text, xxxix + 773 pp., figs. 1–379. (2) plates volume, 16 pp., 1–251. (3) Japanese text, 461 pp., figs. 1–2].
Sherborn, C.D. (1922) Index animalium sive index nominum quae ab A.D. MDCCLVIII generibus et speciebus animalium imposita sunt societatibus eruditorum adiuvantibus. Sectio secunda a kalendis Ianuariis, MDCCCI usque ad finem Decembris, MDCCCL. Part I. Introduction, Bibliography and Index A–Aff. The Trustees of the British Museum, London, Pp. 1–128, 1801–1850.
Takeda, M. (1982) Keys to the Japanese and foreign crustaceans fully illustrated in colors. Hokuryukan, Tokyo. vi + 285 pp., pp. 1–58 (keys).
Takeda, M. & Miyake, S. (1968) Pilumnid crabs of the family Xanthidae from the West Pacific. I. Twenty‑three species of the genus Pilumnus, with description of four new species. Occasional Papers of the Zoological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 1(1), 1–60, pls. 1–4.
Terada, M. (1990) Zoeal development of five species of xanthoid crabs, reared in the laboratory. Researches on Crustacea, 18, 23–47.
Ward, M. (1933) The true crabs of the Capricorn Group, Queensland. (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda Brachyura). Part 1. Xanthidae. Australian Zoologist, 7(5), 237–255. [Dated 1932, published 1933.]