WoRMS taxon details
Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804)
208700 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208700)
accepted
Species
Cancer megistes Yap-Chiongco in Estampador, 1937 (misspelling and incorrect generic assignment)
Cancer megistos Herbst, 1804 (transferred to Pagurus by Olivier (1812))
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)
marine
Not documented
Holotype ZMB 2491, geounit East Indies
Holotype ZMB 2491, geounit East Indies [details]
Lemaitre, R.; McLaughlin, P. (2021). World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea Database. Dardanus megistos (Herbst, 1804). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208700 on 2021-02-25
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original description
(of Pagurus spinimanus H. Milne Edwards, 1848) Milne Edwards, H. (1848). Note sur quelques nouvelles espèces du genre Pagure. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie, Paris, ser. 3.</em> 10: 59-64. [details] 
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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source McLaughlin, P. A.; Komai, T.; Lemaitre, R.; Rahayu, D.L. (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. <em>The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> Suppl. 23: 5-107. [details] Available for editors [request]
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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source McLaughlin, P. A.; Komai, T.; Lemaitre, R.; Rahayu, D.L. (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. <em>The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> Suppl. 23: 5-107. [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype ZMB 2491, geounit East Indies [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | white-spotted hermit crabwhitespotted hermitspotted hermit crab | [details] |
| German | Weißpunkt-EinsiedlerkrebsWeißpunkteinsiedler | [details] |
| Japanese | コモンヤドカリ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Pagurus spinimanus H. Milne Edwards, 1848)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (67 publications) (from synonym Pagurus punctulatus Miers, 1879)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Pagurus megistos (Herbst, 1804))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Cancer megistos Herbst, 1804)
To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Hermit Crab)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Dardanus jordani Schmitt, 1921)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Pagurus punctulatus Miers, 1879)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (86 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Pagurus spinimanus H. Milne Edwards, 1848)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (67 publications) (from synonym Pagurus punctulatus Miers, 1879)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Pagurus megistos (Herbst, 1804))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Cancer megistos Herbst, 1804)
To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Hermit Crab)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Dardanus jordani Schmitt, 1921)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Pagurus punctulatus Miers, 1879)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (86 records)
To ITIS
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