Morphological and Molecular Evidence for the Identity of Two Land Hermit Crabs De Man, 1902 and Nakasone, 1988 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae).

Two species of land hermit crabs, De Man, 1902 and Nakasone, 1988 were described based on female specimens from Maluku, Indonesia and specimens from Cebu, the Philippines, respectively. However, no confirmed records of either species have been reported since their original descriptions. In this study, we examined specimens with typical morphological characters of from Papua New Guinea and from the Philippines and Indonesia, further supported by the analyses of the DNA barcoding marker, cytochrome oxidase subunit I ().