著者
Kooichi Konishi Takashi Yanagimoto Seinen Chow
出版者
The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology
雑誌
Species Diversity (ISSN:13421670)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.27, no.2, pp.243-249, 2022-07-29 (Released:2022-07-29)
参考文献数
36

A giant phyllosoma larva, assigned to the final stage, was collected from off Peru. This specimen was determined to be Projasus bahamondei George, 1976 by DNA barcoding, and morphological description was given for the first time in the genus Projasus George and Grindley, 1964. The present phyllosoma was characteristic of having very wide cephalic shield (about 2.3 times of thorax width), median rostrum, eminent setose exopods on the second and third maxillipeds, and five stout spines on basial endite of maxillule. Projasus phyllosoma has morphological characteristics of both ‘Silentes’ and ‘Stridentes’ groups in the family Palinuridae.
著者
Seinen Chow Katsuyuki Hamasaki Kooichi Konishi Takashi Yanagimoto Ryota Wagatsuma Haruko Takeyama
出版者
Carcinological Society of Japan
雑誌
Crustacean Research (ISSN:02873478)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.52, pp.31-48, 2023-02-18 (Released:2023-02-18)
参考文献数
69
被引用文献数
1

Lithodoid and paguroid crabs are morphologically assigned to the superfamilies Lithodoidea and Paguroidea, respectively. Molecular analyses, however, have revealed closer genetic proximity of the lithodoid crabs to the family Paguridae than to other families of Paguroidea, provoking a long debate. We investigated the length and nucleotide sequence variation of the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) in lithodoid and paguroid species. Uniquely short ITS1s (215–253 bp) were observed in seven lithodoid species. In contrast, ITS1 length varied considerably in 13 paguroid species belonging to the families Coenobitidae, Diogenidae, and Paguridae. Short-to-long ITS1s (238–1090 bp) were observed in five species of the family Paguridae, and medium to long ITS1s (573–1166 bp) were observed in eight species of the families Coenobitidae and Diogenidae. Considerably different size ITS1s coexisted in individual paguroid species. Nucleotide sequence analysis indicated that the short ITS1s observed in the family Paguridae were descendants of longer ITS1s and were homologous to the short ITS1 of lithodoid species. ITS1 sequences of the families Coenobitidae and Diogenidae shared no nucleotide elements with lithodoid and pagurid species. These molecular signals indicate that the short ITS1 in pagurid lineage was passed on to lithodoid lineage, strongly supporting the “hermit-to-king” crab hypothesis.