taxonID	type	description	language	source
E46BC038FFC1E55EFF77DC8393B11463.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. New Zealand. Wairepo Flats, Kaikoura, 42.42 ° S, 173.72 ° E, NMV J 39509 (female, sl. 1.0 mm). Australia, Victoria. Walkerville North, Waratah Bay, 38.84 ° S, 146.00 ° E, NMV J 76662 (female, sl. 2.9 mm); Bastion Point, Mallacoota, 37.57 ° S, 149.76 ° E, NMV J 75729 (male, sl. 4.3 mm; ovigerous female, sl. 3.6 mm).	en	Eichler, John, Hall, Barbara, Farrelly, Caroline, Falconer, Audrey, Poore, Gary C. B. (2024): The New Zealand Pagurus traversi (Filhol, 1885) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) in Australia, first record of a translocated hermit crab. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83: 317-323, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.04, URL: https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.04
E46BC038FFC1E55EFF77DC8393B11463.taxon	discussion	Remarks on identification. The colour of Pagurus traversi has been described as “ eyestalks green-blue with lighter markings; antennules reddish-orange; antennae dark red with narrow white bars; chelipeds and walking legs dark blue-green ground colour with small pale blue spots and pale blue patches in [carpal-meral] joint regions ” (Schembri and McLay, 1983; de Saint Laurent and McLaughlin, 2000: pl. 6 fig. 1). Examination of photographs on iNaturalist of P. traversi from New Zealand show the coloration to be quite variable. A more detailed description of the live colour is provided here based on the Australian specimens: eyestalks dark green or brown with longitudinal white dashes and stripes; basal antennular articles greenish, third basal article and flagellum bright orange; antennal peduncle dark red, bearing tiny blue / white spots; antennal flagellum dark red with narrow white bars; chelipeds and ambulatory legs vary from blue-green to dark brown, with lines of pale blue spots (particularly on the merus); distal articles of walking legs often striped with broad green, white and dark red bands, a thicker band of white on distal carpal margin, with narrow dark red lines inside each leg; third maxillipeds dark red with small blue spots; carapace with pale blue / white spots. This is consistent with the colour reported from New Zealand (fig. 2). The morphology of P. traversi is well described (de Saint Laurent and McLaughlin, 2000: 190, 206 – 209, fig. 66, pl. 6 fig. 1). Diagnostic features from their key to New Zealand species of Pagurus and the description are: ocular peduncles moderately long and slender, 0.50 – 0.65 length of shield. Ocular acicles with 2 – 5 terminal spines. Right cheliped dorsal surface with 4 – 6 regular or irregular rows of acute tubercles; carpus not strongly produced ventrally to form distinct triangular lobe. Dactyli of walking legs shorter than propodi, each without longitudinal sulcus on mesial and lateral face. Pereopods 3 without dense dorsal and ventral fringe of long plumose setae. This is consistent with the Australian specimens (fig. 3).	en	Eichler, John, Hall, Barbara, Farrelly, Caroline, Falconer, Audrey, Poore, Gary C. B. (2024): The New Zealand Pagurus traversi (Filhol, 1885) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) in Australia, first record of a translocated hermit crab. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83: 317-323, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.04, URL: https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.04
