A new mangrove-inhabiting porcelain crab of the genus <I>Enosteoides</I> (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from Puerto Princesa Bay, Palawan, the Philippines

Enosteoides Johnson, 1970 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) from the Central Philippines, with description of a new species of the genus

“…The carapace and chelipeds are generally white with brown blotches in the new species, instead of being pale pink to brown or mottled dark brown in E. melissa and E. philippinensis. The carpi and propodi of the second to Enosteoides from the Central Philippines Nauplius, 24: e2016013 fourth pereopods are bright red for most part in the new species, whereas such color pattern is not seen in E. melissa and E. philippinensis (Osawa, 2009;2013;Dolorosa and Werding, 2014;Fig. 1A).…”

“…Enosteoides from the Central Philippines Nauplius, 24: e2016013 type species of the genus], E. palauensis (Nakasone and Miyake, 1968), and E. philippinensis Dolorosa and Werding, 2014. The genus is characterized by the carapace having well-defined dorsal regions and some spines on each lateral margin, the rostrum with a median concavity or notch on the anterior margin in dorsal view, the second to fourth articles of the antennal peduncle excluded from the orbit by the projection of the first article adpressed to the anterior margin of the carapace, and the chelae flattened (Haig, 1978;Osawa, 2009;Osawa and Chan, 2010).…”

“…obs.). Enosteoides philippinensis is also an intertidal species and has been recorded from the outer area of mangrove forests (Dolorosa and Werding, 2014). Alternatively, many of the specimens of E. turkayi n. sp.…”

Three way symbiosis between a goby, a shrimp, and a crab

“…All species, except E. lobatus, are apparently free-living with a marked affinity for bottoms covered by fine debris, most frequently occurring under stones or among coral fragments deposited on fine sediment. E. lobatus and E. philippinensis Dolorosa and Werding, 2014 are known only from the original descriptions, the first from Japan, and the second from the Philippines. E. ornatus (Stimpson, 1858) and E. melissa (Miyake, 1942) are known from a wide geographic range in the Indo-West Pacific.…”

Porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) of western coast of India

“…The family includes approximately 280 species in 30 genera from tropical to temperate waters of the world (e.g., Osawa and McLaughlin, 2010;Osawa and Uyeno, 2013;Dolorosa and Werding, 2014). Porcelain crabs are mainly inhabitants of intertidal coasts, found beneath humid rocks, dead corals and in muddy bottoms , while, in sub-tidal region, they occasionally live in association with other invertebrates such as sea urchin, soft corals, worm tubes, sponges and hydrozoans (Werding, 1983;Hiller et al 2004;Hiller et al 2006;Osawa and Chan, 2010).…”