SYSTEMATIC DISCUSSION 

 PART I 



ANOMURA 



Family: PAGURIDAE 

 Subfamily: Pagurinae Ortmann 



Genus: CLIBANARIUS Dana 

 Clibanarius corallinus (H. M. Edwards) 



Plate 1 



Type : Dr. Milne Edwards' type was collected in New Guinea 

 by M. Quoy and Gaimard and is deposited in the Paris Museum. 



Distribution: Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands (Alcock, 

 Heller) ; Liu Kiu Islands (Stimpson) ; Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 

 Malay Archipelago (Lanchester) ; Pulo Edam Island, Nord- 

 wachter Island, Borneo (de Man) ; New Guinea (Edwards) ; Mur- 

 ray Island, Torres Straits (McCulloch) ; Falcon Island, Palm 

 Islands, Queensland (Boone) ; Solomon Islands (McCulloch) ; 

 Funafuti, Ellice Islands (Borradaile, McCulloch) ; Fiji Islands 

 (Dana) ; Samoa (Boone) ; Rowland Islands (Ortmann) ; Wake 

 Island (Dana) ; Fanning Island (Edmondson) ; Tahiti, Society 

 Islands (Heller, Dana, Ortmann) ; Bora Bora, Society Islands 

 (Boone) ; Puamu-Apataki, Hao Island, Paumotu Archipelago 

 (Nobili). 



Material examined: Thirty-seven specimens, two of which 

 are imperfect, collected on the reefs of Falcon Island, Palm 

 Islands, Queensland, Australia, October 7, 1931. Two small speci- 

 mens, from Apia, Samoa, September 5, 1931. One specimen from 

 Bora Bora Island, Society Islands, August 24, 1921. 



Colour : The preserved specimens have the carapace whitish, 

 spotted with red ; the legs are red, except the dactyli, which are 

 white, except for the black claw-tips. The spines of the chelipeds 

 are white with black tips ; the setae are golden. 



