Australian Museum Journal Hermit crabs from north Australian and eastern Indonesian waters (Crustacea Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) collected during the 1975 Alpha Helix Expedition
- Shortform:
- Haig and Ball, 1988, Rec. Aust. Mus. 40(3): 151–196
- Author(s):
- Haig, Janet; Ball, Eldon E.
- Year published:
- 1988
- Title:
- Hermit crabs from north Australian and eastern Indonesian waters (Crustacea Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) collected during the 1975 Alpha Helix Expedition
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 3
- Start page:
- 151
- End page:
- 196
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.153
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 16 December 1988
- Cover date:
- 16 December 1988
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA; TAXONOMY; INDONESIA
- Digitized:
- 22 January 2009
- Available online:
- 04 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 153
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (82kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (6627kb PDF)
Abstract
Fifty-two species of hermit crabs of the families Coenobitidae, Diogenidae and Paguridae were collected in the Arafura Sea and in Maluku (Moluccas), Indonesia. Five of these species were previously unrecorded from the Arafura Sea and Torres Strait. At the Banda Islands, where the major part of the collecting was done, 34 out of 37 species are reported for the first time. The collection included 18 new records for Seram and 14 for Saparua. Four new species are described from Maluku. Live colour notes and information on natural history are presented for most of the species in the collection, and associations are noted with anemones, rhizocephalans, cirolanid and parasitic isopods, copepods, a shrimp and a polychaete.
This paper is Contribution 428 of the Allan Hancock Foundation.