WoRMS taxon details
Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804)
AphiaID: 208700
AphiaID: 208700
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Paguroidea (Superfamily) > Diogenidae (Family) > Dardanus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Dardanus Paul’son, 1875 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cancer megistes Yap-Chiongco in Estampador, 1937 (misspelling and incorrect generic assignment) Cancer megistos Herbst, 1804 (transferred to Pagurus by Olivier (1812)) Dardanus jordani Schmitt, 1921 Dardanus megsitos Ward, 1942 (misspelling) Dardanus spinimanus (H. Milne Edwards, 1848) (junior synonym) Pagurus megistos (Herbst, 1804) (transferred to Dardanus by Rathbun (1907)) Pagurus punctulatus Miers, 1879 (junior synonym) Pagurus spinimanus H. Milne Edwards, 1848 (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Reay, P.J. & J. Haig (1990). Coastal hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura) from Kenya, with a review and key to East African species. Bulletin of Marine Science 46(3): 578-589 [details] additional source: McLaughlin, Patsy A.; Komai, Tomoyuki; Lemaitre, Rafael; Listyo Rahayu, Dwi. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 23: 5-107 [details] basis of record (from synonym): Barnard, K.H., 1950. Descriptive catalogue of South African decapod Crustacea (crabs and shrimps).— Annals of the South African Museum 38: 1-837. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Australia [details] East Africa [details] Eritrea (not certain) [details] French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Indo-Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mayotte Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mozambique [details] Natal [details] New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Réunion Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Ryukyu Islands [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Mozambique [details] South Sandwich Islands (not certain) [details] Tanzania [details] Wallis and Futuna Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Indian Ocean [details] West Pacific [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype (from synonym): USNM 3093, locality California (San Francisco Bay) [view taxon]
Holotype: ZMB 2491, locality East Indies [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208700 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: McLaughlin, P. (2013). Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804). In: Lemaitre, R.; McLaughlin, P. (2013) World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208700 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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