Hermit crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea) of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Updated 8 years ago

ABSTRACT – The hermit crab fauna of the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia was found to consist of 34 species, representing the two major paguroid families, Diogenidae with 24 and Paguridae with 10. The Archipelago has provided new distributional records lor 9 ot the 24 diogenid species: Clibanarius longitarsus, Dardanus hessi, D. squarrosus, Diogenes biramus, D. capricornis, D. dorotheae, D. pallescens, Paguristes alegrias and P. kimberleyensis. The presence of Ciliopagurus krempfi is a new record tor Australia. Additionally, the new species of Paguristes, P. dampierensis, has been described in an accompanying paper in this volume. Of the 10 pagurid species, the Archipelago represents new distributional records for Paguritta harmsi, Pagurus compressipes and P. hedleyi. In addition to a new species, Pagurus sticticus, described from the Dampier collections, 4 species, Anapagurus bonnieri, Icelopagurus undulatus, Nematopagurus australis and N. ostlingochirus, represent new additions to the Australian fauna.