Tylaspis anomala Henderson, 1885

Arnes-Urgelles, Camila, Buglass, Salome, Ahyong, Shane T., Salinas-de-Leon, Pelayo, Wicksten, Mary K. & Marsh, Leigh, 2020, Arthropoda; Crustacea; Decapoda of deep-sea volcanic habitats of the Galapagos Marine Reserve, Tropical Eastern Pacific, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 54482-54482 : 54482

Tylaspis anomala Henderson, 1885

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: CDF Volunteer; behavior: on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Image only; associatedMedia: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1921/45651006891_6c828df1f0_o.png; occurrenceID: H1436_012101_Tylaspis_anomala; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:368016; scientificName: Tylaspisanomala; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Parapaguridae; genus: Tylaspis; specificEpithet: anomala; scientificNameAuthorship: Henderson, 1885; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: locationID: MRGID8403; waterBody: Pacific Ocean; country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Galapagos; locality: Far North ; verbatimLocality: East of Darwin; minimumDepthInMeters: 2075; maximumDepthInMeters: 2075; decimalLatitude: 1.6592; decimalLongitude: -91.6739; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 60; Identification: identifiedBy: Shane Ahyong; dateIdentified: 2017; identificationRemarks: ID from imagery only; identificationQualifier: Tylaspisanomala; Event: eventID: NA064; samplingProtocol: Remotely Operated Vehicles; eventDate: 06-28-15; eventTime: 1:21:01 AM; habitat: Seamount; Record Level: language: en; bibliographicCitation: Lemaitre, R.; McLaughlin, P. (2019). World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. Tylaspisanomala Henderson, 1885. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=368016 on 2019-08-23; institutionCode: CDF; collectionCode: Arthropoda; datasetName: Video transect framegrabs; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Notes

This observation is a new record for Galapagos. Notice that a sea anemone has overgrown the abdomen of the crab, a common association found in this family of hermit crabs. Fig. 22

Figures

Figure 22. Tylaspis anomala