identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
E46BC038FFC1E55EFF77DC8393B11463.text	E46BC038FFC1E55EFF77DC8393B11463.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pagurus traversi (Filhol 1885)	<div><p>Taxonomy and identification</p><p>Material examined. New Zealand. Wairepo Flats, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=173.72&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-42.42" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 173.72/lat -42.42)">Kaikoura</a>, 42.42° S, 173.72° E, NMV J39509 (female, sl. 1.0 mm) . Australia, Victoria. Walkerville North, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=149.76&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.57" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 149.76/lat -37.57)">Waratah Bay</a>, 38.84° S, 146.00° E, NMV J76662 (female, sl. 2.9 mm); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=149.76&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.57" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 149.76/lat -37.57)">Bastion Point</a>, Mallacoota, 37.57° S, 149.76° E, NMV J75729 (male, sl. 4.3 mm; ovigerous female, sl. 3.6 mm) .</p><p>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).</p><p>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).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E46BC038FFC1E55EFF77DC8393B11463	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Eichler, John;Hall, Barbara;Farrelly, Caroline;Falconer, Audrey;Poore, Gary C. B.	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
