Pylojacquesidae

The Pylojacquesidae are a small family of hermit crabs, comprising only two species in two genera.[1] The family was erected in 2001, after two specimens at Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin were recognised as being quite distinct from other described hermit crabs. The family members differ from other hermit crabs in that their mandibles are chitinous and toothed.[2]

Pylojacquesidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Superfamily:
Paguroidea
Family:
Pylojacquesidae

McLaughlin & Lemaitre, 2001
Species
  • Pylojacquesia colemani McLaughlin & Lemaitre, 2001
  • Lemaitreopsis holmi McLaughlin, 2007

Pylojacquesia colemani

Pylojacquesia colemani was described in 2001,[3] based on two specimens discovered in the Museum für Naturkunde (natural history museum) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The specimens had been collected in 1875 by the S.M.S. Gazelle at 26°51.1′S 153°29.6′E in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Brisbane, Australia. It lives in the tubes secreted by serpulid worms of the genus Protula (Annelida: Serpulidae) in sandy areas of the continental shelf.[2] The specific epithet commemorates Charles Oliver Coleman, curator of Crustacea at the Museum für Naturkunde.[3]

Lemaitreopsis holmi

Lemaitreopsis holmi was described in 2007, based on a single female collected on September 20, 1986, at 22°40.39′S 167°41.39′E near the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia.[4] The genus name Lemaitreopsis commemorates Rafael Lemaitre of the Smithsonian Institution, while the specific epithet commemorates the malacologist George P. Holm.[4] The holotype is kept at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.[4]

References
  1. Patsy A. McLaughlin; Tomoyuki Komai; Rafael Lemaitre & Dwi Listyo Rahayu (2010). Martyn E. Y. Low & S. H. Tan (eds.). "Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea)" (PDF). Zootaxa. Suppl. 23: 5–107. |chapter= ignored (help)
  2. P. J. F. Davie (2002). "Pylojacquesidae". Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura. Volume 19 of Zoological Catalogue of Australia: Crustacea: Malocostraca: Eucarida. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 113–114. ISBN 978-0-643-06792-9.
  3. Patsy A. McLaughlin & Rafael Lemaitre (2001). "A new family for a new genus and new species of hermit crab of the superfamily Paguroidea (Decapoda: Anomura) and its phylogenetic implications". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 21 (4): 1062–1076. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2001)021[1062:ANFFAN]2.0.CO;2.
  4. Patsy A. McLaughlin (2007). "A new genus and species in the hermit crab family Pylojacquesidae (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea) from New Caledonia". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 120 (1): 56–62. doi:10.2988/0006-324X(2007)120[56:ANGASI]2.0.CO;2.
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