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Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-06
Page range: 445–450
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A new species of hermit crab of the genus Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae) from the southern Caribbean off Venezuela 

Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Distrito de Rubião Junior, s/n, CEP: 18618-970, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, U.S.A.
Crustacea Decapoda Anomura Paguridae new species Pagurus scopaopsis Caribbean Sea

Abstract

A male specimen of a new species of the heterogeneous genus Pagurus Fabricius, 1775, collected in 1968 off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, was discovered among the vast crustacean collections of the Smithsonian Institution. This new species herein described and illustrated is named P. scopaopsis, and is characterized primarily by the presence of: a brush-like setation pattern on the dactyl of the left third pereopod, dense small tubercles on the dorsal surfaces of the dactyl and fixed finger of the right chela, and a raised longitudinal ridge armed with spines on the palm and fixed finger of the left chela.

 

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