Decapoda - Anomura - Diogenidae - Dardanus
| Dardanus sanguinolentus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) |
World Distribution
In Malay et al. (2018, Raffles Bulletin) - Dardanus lagopodes is a species complex. The 'red knee form' is D. sanguinolentus known with certainty from the Red Sea, Réunion, Seychelles, Europa Island, Juan de Nova Island, Mayotte, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Okinawa, Guam, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, and Society. Plus Philippines. 1-51 m to 70-80 m in Mayotte.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-75 m
Mayotte data
Dardanus sanguinolentus - Mayotte, as D. lagopodes, see Malay et al. (2018), 'red knee form'. Also Juan de Nova. ?Glorieuses (sp. photographed perhaps D. ?setifer instead). - Poupin et al., 2022, Naturae, MNHN, https://doi.org/10.5852/naturae2022a8 : 150. - Mayotte, Bouéni, 17/11/2019, 70-80 m, photo G. Barathieu (photo with a fish Dactylopteridae, Dactyloptena orientalis).
KWD - Mesophotic, Det OK, Deepest record
Europa data
Dardanus sanguinolentus - As D. lagopodes, see Malay et al. (2018), 'red knee form'
Réunion data
Dardanus sanguinolentus - As D. lagopodes, see Malay et al. (2018), 'red knee form'
New Caledonia data
Dardanus sanguinolentus - As D. lagopodes, see Malay et al. (2018), 'red knee form'
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
French Polynesia (Society) - Dardanus sanguinolentus - As D. lagopodes, see Malay et al. (2018), 'red knee form' Society (?Moorea), ?Marquesas (Ua Pou)
Comment(s) on data
Dardanus sanguinolentus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) for long considered as a junior synonym of D. lagopodes (the red knee form; see Malay et al., 2018).
An affiliated species to D. lagopodes/D. sanguinolentus is Dardanus umbella Asakura, 2006 from Yap Island, Micronesia. In his thesis, Landschoff (2018: 160) has tentatively identified 'red knee' specimens from South Africa to Dardanus cf. umbella. He has also indicated that 'red knee' D. sanguinolentus reported in this base (Poupin & coll.) from Mayotte and Réunion could be also 'D. cf. umbella'. However in his synthesis (p. 210) Landschoff indicates that his 'D. cf. umbella' from South Africa 'seems to be conspecific with Malay et al's (2018) specimens of D. sanguinolentus' and that 'future studies are likely to show that the latter taxon (D. umbella) is actually a synonym of D. sanguinolentus.
New family Calcinidae Fraaije, Van Bakel & Jagt, 2017, replaces Diogenidae. Calcinidae unaccepted in Poore & Ahyong (2023) (also WoRMS 2023)
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database