Pagurus hirtimanus Miers, 1880

Komai, Tomoyuki & Rahayu, Dwi Listyo, 2014, New records and new species of the hermit crab genus Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Philippines, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62, pp. 620-646 : 621-623

Pagurus hirtimanus Miers, 1880

Restricted synonymy.

Pagurus hirtimanus White, 1847: 60 (nomen nudum).

Pagurus hirtimanus Miers, 1880: 375 , 376 [type locality: Philippines and Fiji]; Gordan, 1956: 330 (bibliography); Lewinsohn, 1969: 62; Haig & Ball, 1988: 186; Minemizu, 2000: 154, unnumbered figs.; McLaughlin et al., 2010: 33 (list), fig. 15G; Humann & Deloach, 2010: 163, unnumbered fig.; Poupin & Juncker, 2010: 5, 236, 237, fig. a; Poupin et al., 2013: 47, fig. 25A, B.

Eupagurus japonicus ? – Miers, 1880: 375, pl. 14, figs. 6, 7. Not Pagurus japonicus ( Stimpson, 1858) .

Eupagurus hirtimanus – De Man, 1888: 426.

Eupagurus janitor Alcock, 1905a: 832 , pl. 68, figs. 2, 4 [type locality: Hululu, Malé Atoll, Maldives]; 1905b: 125, 132, pl. 11, fig. 6; Estampador, 1937: 505; 1959; Yap-Chiongco, 1938: 208, pl. 2, fig. 1.

Pagurus janitor – Gordan, 1956: 331 (bibliography).

Not Eupagurus hirtimanus – Terao, 1913: 369 = Pagurus pectinatus ( Stimpson, 1858) .

Material examined. 1 male (sl 2.0 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0633 ), PANGLAO 2004, stn B8, Napaling, Panglao Island , 09°37.1'N, 123°46.1'E, 3 m, reef platform, 7 June 2004 ; 1 ovigerous female (sl 8.0 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0636 ), stn B10, Momo Beach, Panglao Island , 09°36.5'N, 123°45.6'E, 3–14 m, reef wall with small caves, 10 June 2004 ; 1 ovigerous female (sl 5.6 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0637 ), stn B23, Black Forest, Balicasag Island , 09°31.1'N, 123°41.3'E, 20–25 m, rubble on sand, 25 June 2004 ; 1 male (sl 4.6 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0641 ), stn B39, Abatan River, Bohol Island , 09°45.2'N, 123°56.0'E, 0–2 m, sand, consolidated cliff, 26 June 2004 ; 1 male (sl 9.4 mm), 2 females (sl 9.1, 8.4 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0630 ), stn M1, Alona Beach, Panglao Island , 09°32.9'N, 123°46.6'E, 0–1 m, May to July 2004 ; 1 male (sl 3.9 mm), 1 female (sl 8.7 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0631 ), stn M2, W end of Alona Beach, Panglao Island , 09°32.8'N, 123°45.9'E, reef flat with sea grass bed, 0–2 m, 30 May 2004 ; 1 male (sl 3.2 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0639 ), stn M3, Danao, Panglao Island , 09°32.5'N, 123°44.7'E, 0–2.5 m, reef, 31 May 2004 ; 3 males (sl 4.1–5.9 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0632 ), stn M7, Momo Beach, Panglao Island , 09°36.1’N, 123°45.2'E, 0–3 m, reef platform with sea grass, 1 June 2004 ; 1 male (sl 4.0 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0642 ), stn M10, Bingag / Tabalong, Panglao Island , 0–3 m, 09°37.8'N, 123°48.4'E, rocky area with sea grass, 5 June 2004 ; 1 ovigerous female (sl 10.1 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0638 ), stn M22, Napaling , 09°37.2'N, 123°46.4'E, 0–3 m, coral platform, 15 June 2004 ; 5 males (sl 3.3–5.3 mm), 1 female (sl 5.2 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0635 ), stn M40, Looc, Panglao Island , 09°35.7’N, 123°44.7'E, 0–3 m, fringe mangrove, sea grass beds and hard bottom, 22–28 June 2004 ; 4 males (sl 3.2–11.1 mm) ( ZRC 2013.6043 ), stn M58, Balicasag Island , 09°31.3'N, 123°41.0'E, intertidal, 4 July 2004 ; 2 ovigerous females (sl 10.7, 12.5 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0634 ), stn N4, Alona reef, 09°32.9'N, 123°46.9'E, 15–20 m, 10 June 2004 , bated traps; 2 males (sl 11.1, 13.2 mm) ( ZRC 2013.0640 ), stn R3, Alona reef, 09°33.0'N, 123°46.5'E, 5–24 m, base of reef slope, May to July 2004 .

Distribution. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific: from Red Sea and eastern Africa to Fiji, north to southern Japan and south to Queensland, Australia; intertidal to 25 m.

Remarks. The name “ Pagurus hirtimanus ” was firstly mentioned by White (1847) in his list of crustaceans in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). However, the name was unavailable because White (1847) did not give a description. The author of this name has been attributed to Miers (1880), who provided a description of P. hirtimanus for the first time, although Miers (1880) questionably referred the species to P. japonicus ( Stimpson, 1858) (as Eupagurus ).

Terao (1913) recorded P. hirtimanus from Hokkaido, northern Japan (as Eupagurus ). Komai & Ueshima (in press) re-examined the specimens studied by Terao (1913) and confirmed that they represent P. pectinatus ( Stimpson, 1858) , a species distributed in cold waters of the western North Pacific ( Komai, 2000a).