Decanet name details
Pagurus symmetricus Randall, 1840
412445 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:412445)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Randall, J.W. (1840). Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nutall and J.K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the Academy. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia.</em> 8: 106-147, pls. 3-7. [details] 
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Randall, J.W. (1840). Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nutall and J.K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the Academy. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia.</em> 8: 106-147, pls. 3-7. [details]
basis of record McLaughlin, P. A., Komai, T., Lemaitre, R. & Rahayu, D.L. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea. Part I — Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> Supplement 23: 5–107. [details] Available for editors
redescription Negri, M.; Lemaitre, R.; Mantelatto, F. L. (2014). Molecular and morphological resurrection of <i>Clibanarius symmetricus</i> (Randall, 1840), a cryptic species hiding under the name for the “thinstripe” hermit crab <i>C. vittatus</i> (Bosc, 1802) (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae). <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 34(6): 848-861., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/1937240x-00002277 [details] Available for editors
basis of record McLaughlin, P. A., Komai, T., Lemaitre, R. & Rahayu, D.L. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea. Part I — Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> Supplement 23: 5–107. [details] Available for editors
redescription Negri, M.; Lemaitre, R.; Mantelatto, F. L. (2014). Molecular and morphological resurrection of <i>Clibanarius symmetricus</i> (Randall, 1840), a cryptic species hiding under the name for the “thinstripe” hermit crab <i>C. vittatus</i> (Bosc, 1802) (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae). <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 34(6): 848-861., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/1937240x-00002277 [details] Available for editors