Rathbun, 1932

Carapace with regions well defined; cardiac region with a short spine on summit; hepatic and postorbital lobes distinct; antorbital angle of eave not produced; branchial submargin with tubercles but without a flat plate; rostral spines divergent or weakly divergent, 0.3-0.5 postrostral carapace length; hepatic spine smaller than or subequal to branchial spine; branchial region without antero-medial tubercles. (Davie 1996)

Type locality: Ose-zaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
Range: Japan - Ose-zaki, Nagasaki (Rathbun, 1932), Oga Peninsula, Kii Peninsula, Ose-zakai, and Tsushima (Sakai, 1976a).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Heterotremata
Superfamily Majoidea
Family Majidae
Subfamily Epialtinae
Genus Pugettia
Species Pugettia similis

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Pugettia similis Rathbun, 1932: 32. -- Sakai, 1938a: 261. -- Sakai, 1976a: 200, figs 107a-b. -- Griffin & Tranter, 1986a: 93(key).

Hime-mogani-modoki [Japanese]
mogani-modoki, Hime- [Japanese]

Griffin, D.J.G. & H.A. Tranter, 1986a. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. VIII. Majidae. Siboga Expeditie Monografie, 39(C4): 1-335, figs 1-112, pls 1-22.

Rathbun, M.J., 1932. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Japanese crabs. Proceedings of the biological Society of Washington, 45: 28-38.

Sakai, T., 1938a. Studies on the crabs of Japan. III. Brachygnatha, Oxyrhyncha, pp 193-364, 55 figs, pls 20-41. Yokendo Co., Tokyo.

Sakai, T., 1976a. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. (In 3 volumes: (1) English text: i-xxix, 1-773, figs 1-379, (2) Plates volume: 1-16, pls 1-251, (3) Japanese text: 1-461, figs 1-2, 3 maps.) Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo.

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