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Issue: Vol. 386 No. 1: 16 Dec. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-12-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.386.1.1
Page range: 1–11
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 16

A strikingly coloured new species of Paragiopagurus Lemaitre, 1996 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Parapaguridae) from French Polynesia

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Systematic Biology, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, D. C. 20013-7012, U.S.A
Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale, IRENav, BP 600, 29240 BREST NAVAL France
Crustacea Decapoda Anomura Parapaguridae Paragiopagurus deep-water hermit crab French Polynesia Austral Islands systematics new species

Abstract

A new deep-water hermit crab species, Paragiopagurus fasciatus, is described from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia. This new species has a distinct colour pattern consisting of red stripes on the shield and ambulatory legs, and is also distinguished by having short antennal peduncles, strongly armed carpus of the left cheliped, and in females, laterally armed telson. This new species is the fourth of the genus, and the twelfth of the family, recorded from French Polynesia. The closest morphological affinities of P. fasciatus n. sp. are with P. bougainvillei (Lemaitre, 1994) and P. wallisi (Lemaitre, 1994), two species also known so far exclusively from French Polynesia. A taxonomically updated list of species from French Polynesia is presented.

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