Catapagurus tanimbarensis McLaughlin, 1997

Lemaitre, Rafael, 2025, Two new species and new records of Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae) from the southwestern Pacific, Zoosystema 47 (31), pp. 751-764 : 763-764

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a31
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scientific name	Catapagurus tanimbarensis McLaughlin, 1997
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Catapagurus tanimbarensis McLaughlin, 1997 View in CoL

Catapagurus tanimbarensis McLaughlin, 1997: 498 View in CoL , figs 18a-m, 39c-d. — McLaughlin et al. 2010: 28.

Hemipagurus tanimbarensis – Asakura 2001: 824, tbl 1., 884, fig. 37F, H.

NEW MATERIAL. — Solomon Islands • 1 ovig ♀ 1.9 mm; West Bay ; SOLOMON 2; stn DW2169; 09°01’S, 159°06’E; 100-200 m depth; 21.X.2004; MNHN-IU-2022-4544 GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION. — Kai and Tanimbar Islands in eastern Indonesia to the Solomon Islands in the southwestern Pacific; depth: 100 to 301 m.

HABITAT. — Has been found living in shell of Natica sp. ( McLaughlin 1997).

COLOR

Unknown.

REMARKS

This species was previously known only from the Kai and Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia ( McLaughlin 1997). The current record extends the range of this species approximately 3200 km eastwards to the Solomon Islands.