Calcinus minutus Buitendijk 1937
Creators: name: Malay, Maria Celia (Machel) D.
name: Rahayu, Dwi Listyo
name: Chan, Tin-Yam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Diogenidae
Calcinus
Calcinus minutus

description: Calcinus minutus Buitendijk, 1937
(Fig. 1G)
Calcinus minutus Buitendijk, 1937: 269–271, Figs. 13–15 (Kera, near Timor, Indonesia, type locality); Forest, 1958: 185–190, Figs. 1, 6–8, 14, 18; Ball & Haig, 1972: 102; Wooster, 1984: 152–154; Haig & Ball, 1988: 160–161; Morgan, 1991: 894–896, Figs. 40–42; Poupin, 1997: 704–706, Fig. 6A; McLaughlin et al., 2007: 172–173, 2 unlabelled figures; Malay & Paulay, 2010: Appendix S1.
Material examined. 3 males SL 3.8–6.2 mm, 1 damaged indiv. (ZRC), stn M1, Alona Beach, Panglao I., 9°32.9′N, 123°46.6′E, 0–1 m, v.2004 to vii.2004; 1 male SL 3.6 mm (ZRC), stn M2, west end of Alona Beach, Panglao I., 9°32.8′N, 123°45.9′E, 0–2 m, 30.v.2004; 1 ovig. female SL 5.8 mm, 1 male SL 4.5 mm (ZRC), stn M8, Doljo, north coast, Panglao I., 9°35.4′N, 123°44.3′E, 0–1 m, 2.vi.2004; 2 females SL 3.6–5.0 mm, 1 male SL 4.8 mm (ZRC), stn M18, Gak-Ang Islet, off Panglao I., 9°33.0′N, 123°45.5′E, 0–1 m, 10 & 12.vi.2004; 1 female SL 3.1 mm, 1 male SL 6.1 mm (ZRC), stn M19, Pamilacan I., 9°30.0′N, 123°55.3′E, 0–2 m, 11.vi.2004; 1 ovig. female SL 3.9 mm, 1 female SL 3.0 mm, 1 male SL 3.7 mm (ZRC), stn N4, Alona Reef, Panglao I., 9°32.9′N, 123°46.9′E, 15–20 m, 10.vi.2004; 1 male SL 3.0 mm (ZRC), stn N5, Alona Reef, Panglao I., 9°32.9′N, 123°46.9′E, 20–35 m, 10.vi.2004; 2 males SL 2.1–3.3 mm (ZRC), stn R1, Balicasag I., 9°31.2′N, 123°41.3′E, 5–7 m, 30.v.2004; 2 females SL 3.6–3.7 mm (ZRC), stn R8, House Reef, Panglao I., 9°31.2′N, 123°41.3′E, 4–24 m, v.2004 to vii.2004; 1 male SL 4.7 mm (ZRC), stn R10, Biking, Panglao I., 9 °35.3′N, 123°50.5′E, 2–10 m, 1.vi.2004; 2 females SL 3.0– 3.5 mm (ZRC), stn R23, lagoon off Poblacion, Panglao I., 9°33.5′/34.8′N, 123°42.7′/46.3′E, 1–5 m, 5, 6, & 21.vi.2004; 1 male SL 5.7 mm (ZRC), stn R38, Pamilacan I., 9°29.4′N, 123°56.0′E, 6–37 m, 11.vi.2004; 1 female SL 3.5 mm (ZRC), stn R49, San Isidro, Panglao I., 9°34.6′N, 123°49.9′E, 1–32 m, 17.vi.2004; 1 ovig. female SL 3.5 mm (ZRC), stn R61, between Dao and San Isidro, Panglao I., 9°34.3′N, 123°49.3′E, 4–22 m, 23.vi.2004; 2 ovig. females SL 3.9–4.0 mm (ZRC), stn R70, Pamilacan I., 9°30.1′N, 123°55.5′E, 20 m, 1.vii.2004; 1 male SL 3.4 mm (ZRC), stn R71, Arco Point, Panglao I., 9°34.1′N, 123°48.9′E, 2–20 m, 1.vii.2004; 8 indivs. in shell (ZRC), stn R73, Balicasag I., 9°30.9′N, 123°40.8′E, 2–30 m, 2.vii.2004; 1 female SL 3.4 mm (ZRC), stn S12, Pamilacan I., 9°29.4′N, 123°56.0′E, 6–8 m, 14.vi.2004.
Habitat. Mostly subtidal, occasionally intertidal, 0 to approximately 15 m deep, reef slopes and flats, on coralline, mixed seagrass-coral and sand-coral substrates. Facultative associate of live branching corals (e.g., Acropora, Pocillopora).
description: Published as part of Malay, Maria Celia (Machel) D., Rahayu, Dwi Listyo & Chan, Tin-Yam, 2018, Hermit crabs of the genera Calcinus Dana, Clibanarius Dana, and Dardanus Paul'son from the PANGLAO 2004 Expedition, with description of a new species and a checklist of the hermit crabs of the Philippines (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea), pp. 23-65 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66 on page 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4503028