Aliaporcellana pygmaea ( De Man , 1902 )

Werding, Bernd & Hiller, Alexandra, 2007, The Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) of the Red Sea with description of a new species of Petrolisthes, Zootaxa 1460, pp. 1-24 : 2-3

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1. Aliaporcellana pygmaea ( De Man, 1902)

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Porcellana pygmaea De Man, 1902: 698 , pl. 23, fig. 38.

Polyonyx pygmaeus .— Lewinsohn 1969: 161, figs. 36 a–f.

Aliaporcellana pygmaea .— Nakasone & Miyake 1969: 19.— Haig 1978: 708; 1979: 130, figs. 13–15; 1983: 285; 1989: 95.

Material examined. 2 Ψ (ov) ( SMF 25674 View Materials ), Red Sea, Sudan, Sanganeb Atoll, Southeast point, SAN 33, Corals, 20 m, 30 Mar. 1991; 2 ɗ, 1 Ψ (ov) ( SMF 25675 View Materials ), SAN 128, living Stylophora , 30 m, 26 Sep. 1992; 1 ɗ ( SMF 4692), Red Sea, leg. E. Rüppell, 1827.

Measurements. Largest ɗ 3.0 x 3.4 mm; largest Ψ 3.3 x 3.7 mm.

Distribution. Indian Ocean including the Red Sea; in the western Pacific eastwards to the Moluccas.

References

De Man, J. G. (1902) Die von Herrn Professor Kukenthal im Indischen Archipel gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 25, 467 - 929.

Haig, J. (1978) Contribution toward a revision of the porcellanid genus Porcellana (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Proceeding of the Biological Society of Washington, 91 (3), 706 - 714.

Lewinsohn, C. (1969) Die Anomuren des Roten Meeres (Crustacea Decapoda: Paguridae, Galatheidea, Hippidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 104, 1 - 210.

Nakasone, Y. & Miyake, S. (1969) A new porcellanid crab (Anomura: Porcellanidae) from Japan (Aliaporcellana kikuchii gen. et sp. nov.), with description of two species of the new genus. Publications of the Amakusa Marine Biology Laboratory, Kyushu University, 2 (1), 17 - 32.