Hsi-Te Shih & Sin-Che Lee

    Two Calcinus hermit crab species were collected from the coral reefs of Taiwan. Calcinus vachoni Forest, 1958 is a new record to Taiwan, was collected under large rocks or on the branches of corals at about 0 to 3 m depth, while C. seurati Forest, 1951 was found on the high intertidal pool of the coral reefs. These two species are easily recognized by their apparent coloration shown on the living color plates, with a further discussion of the color variation on the eyestalks of C. vachoni. Since the nomenclature of these two species were misidentified in some previous literature, we therefore made the most recent revision on their exact zoogeographical distributions after their taxonomic status were clarified.

Key Words: Crustacean, Anomuran, New Record, Taxonomy, Zoogeography.

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