Pagurus hirsutiusculus
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Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Dana, 1851)
(Fig. 44A, B; Pl. 10B)
Bernhardus hirsutiusculus Dana, 1851: 70; 1852: 443, pl. I; 1855: pl. 27, fig. 3.
Pagurus hirsutiusculus.— Holmes 1900: 143 (part). — Rathbun 1904: 159 (part). — Schmitt 1921: 137, fig. 89 (part). — Johnson & Snook 1927: 334, figs. 279, 280 (part). — Makarov 1962: 171, pl. 3, fig. 4. — Wicksten 1977c: 541. — Hart 1982: 138, fig. 51 (part). — Ricketts et al. 1985: 278 (part). — Jensen 1995: 66, fig. 125. — Komai & Yakovlev 2000: 305. — Lemaitre & Castaño 2004: 78. — Kuris et al. 2007: 650.
Pagurus hirsutiusculus hirsutiusculus. — McLaughlin 1974: 175, figs. 43a–c, 44a–h. — Haig & Abbott 1980: 585, fig. 24.11. — McLaughlin et al. 1988: 430. — Mesce 1993: 95.
Diagnosis. Rostrum triangular, pointed, reaching to middle of ocular scale or beyond; much longer than lateral projections of carapace. Eyestalk stout, cornea not dilated, ocular scale pointed. Major cheliped stout, shorter than pereopods 2, 3; merus, carpus setose, with granules, spines, ridges; hand slightly convex, with many granules. Major cheliped elongated, fingers gaping in adult male. Minor cheliped setose, with granules. Pereopods 2, 3 setose, dactyls slender, about as long as propodi. Telson asymmetrical, lateral margins with notches, terminal margin with notch, teeth. Uropods asymmetrical. Carapace length to 19 mm.
Color in life. Almost black to greenish brown. Apices of minor chela tan or orange. Pereopods 2, 3 with white band on propodus, often also blue dot; dactyl whitish, striped with blue, red. Antennal flagellum banded with translucent and brown. The color notes are from crabs from Coyote Point, San Francisco Bay, California.
Habitat and depth. Often in protected areas with silt or in bays or harbors. Usually upper and middle intertidal zone, to 110 m.
Range. Eastern Hokkaido, Kuril Is., Kamchatka; Pribilof Is. to Monterey, California. Type locality Puget Sound. Records from southern California refer to Pagurus venturensis Coffin, 1957.
Remarks. This is a common intertidal hermit crab. It usually lives in areas more protected from strong surf than P. samuelis, although both species can co-occur. It often inhabits shells of Nucella spp. In San Francisco Bay, it uses shells of gastropod species introduced from the Atlantic. Slipper shells (Crepidula spp.) may live inside the aperture of the shell. Mesce (1993) determined that setae on the minor chela of P. hirsutiusculus act as mechanoreceoptors and chemoreceptors during examination of gastropod shells.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Paguridae
- Genus
- Pagurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Dana
- Species
- hirsutiusculus
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- Taxonomic concept label
- Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Dana, 1851) sec. Wicksten, 2012
References
- Holmes, S. J. (1900) Synopsis of California stalk-eyed Crustacea. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 7, 12 - 62.
- Rathbun, M. J. (1904) Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 10, 1 - 219.
- Schmitt, W. L. (1921) The marine decapod Crustacea of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, 23, 1 - 470.
- Johnson, M. E. & Snook, H. J. (1927) Seashore Animals of the Pacific Coast. Dover Publications, New York, reprint 1967, 659 pp.
- Makarov, V. V. (1962) Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Crustacea. Volume X, no. 3. Anomura. National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. 283 pp.
- Wicksten, M. K. (1977 c) Shells inhabited by Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Dana) at Coyote Point Park, San Francisco Bay, California. Veliger, 19, 445 - 446.
- Hart, J. F. L. (1982) Crabs and their Relatives of British Columbia. British Columbia Provincial Museum Handbook 40, Victoria, 267 pp.
- Ricketts, E. F., Calvin, J., Hedgpeth, J. W. & Phillips, D. W. (1985) Between Pacific Tides. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 5 th ed., 652 pp.
- Jensen, G. C. (1995) Pacific Coast Crabs and Shrimps. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California, 87 pp.
- Komai, T. & Yakovlev, Y. (2000) Decapod crustaceans collected during the biological expedition to the Kamchatka Peninsula and the North Kuril Islands in 1997. Natural History Research, special issue 7, 301 - 322.
- Lemaitre, R. & Castano, C. (2004) A new species of Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 from the Pacific coast of Colombia, with a checklist of eastern Pacific species of the genus. Nauplius, 12, 71 - 82.
- Kuris, A. M., Sadeghian, P. & Carlton, J. T. (2007) Keys to Decapod Crustacea. In: Carlton, J. T. (Ed.) The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates Central California to Oregon. University of California Press, Berkeley, 4 th ed., pp. 636 - 656.
- McLaughlin, P. A. (1974) The hermit crabs (Crustacea Decapoda, Paguridea) of northwestern North America. Zoologische Verhandelingen Uitgegeven door het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden, 130, 1 - 396.
- Haig, J. & Abbott, D. (1980) Macrura and Anomura: the ghost shrimps, hermit crabs, and allies. In: Morris, R., Abbott, D. & E. Haderlie, E. (Eds.) Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 577 - 593.
- McLaughlin, P. A., Gore, R. H. & Crain, J. A. (1988) Studies on the provenzanoi and other pagurid groups: II. A reexamination of the larval stages of Pagurus hirsutiusculus hirsutiusculus (Dana) (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) reared in the laboratory. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 8, 430 - 450.
- Mesce, K. A. (1993) Morphological and physiological identification of chelar sensory structures in the hermit crab Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Decapoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 13, 95 - 110.
- Coffin, H. G. (1957) A new southern form of Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Dana) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Walla Walla College Publications, 21, 1 - 8.