Porcellana sayana

Porcellana sayana is found along the western coast of the Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Hatteras (United States) to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.{{cite web |title=Porcellana sayana (Leach, 1820), spotted porcelain crab |work=A Picture Guide to Shelf Invertebrates from the Northern Gulf of Mexico |publisher=Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission |author=Harriet Perry |author2=Kirsten Larsen |name-list-style=amp |date=June 4, 2004 |accessdate=February 6, 2012 |url=http://www.gsmfc.org/seamap/picture_guide/Crabs/porcellana.pdf }}

Porcellana sayana is {{convert|13|mm}} long, and is red, with numerous whitish spots.{{cite book |author=Susan B. Rothschild |year=2004 |title=Beachcomber's Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida |edition=3rd |publisher=Taylor Trade Publications |isbn=978-1-58979-061-2 |chapter=Sandy beaches |pages=21–38 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0hWmtbRNwIC&pg=PA31}} It may be distinguished from other species by the form of the first pereiopod; the carpus (last segment before the claw) of that leg bears a lobe which projects forwards. It has a fringe of setae along the front of its claws, which it uses in filter feeding.

Porcellana sayana lives in shallow water, at depths of up to {{convert|92|m}}, among rocks and oyster shells, or as a commensal of the hermit crabs Pagurus pollicaris and Petrochirus diogenes. Like another porcelain crab, Petrolisthes galathinus, Porcellana sayana is parasitised by the bopyrid isopod Aporobopyrus curtatus, which lives in the porcelain crab's gill chamber.{{cite book |author=Edward E. Ruppert |author2=Richard S. Fox |name-list-style=amp |year=1988 |title=Seashore Animals of the Southeast: a Guide to Common Shallow-water Invertebrates of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-87249-535-7 |chapter=Porcelain crabs |pages=249–250 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zkA5zzZPuwC&pg=PA250}}

Porcellana sayana was first described by William Elford Leach in 1820 as Pisidia sayana.{{cite journal |author=Masayuki Osawa |author2=Patsy A. McLaughlin |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |title=Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part II – Porcellanidae |journal=The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=Suppl. 23 |pages=109–129 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz109-129.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302185947/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz109-129.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-02}} Its common names include "spotted porcelain crab" and "Say's porcellanid".{{cite book |author=Gilbert L. Voss |year=2002 |title=Seashore Life of Florida and the Caribbean |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |isbn=978-0-486-42068-4 |chapter=Section Anomura |pages=[https://archive.org/details/seashorelifeoffl00gilb/page/92 92]–95 |url=https://archive.org/details/seashorelifeoffl00gilb|url-access=registration }}

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Category:Porcelain crabs

Category:Anomura of the Atlantic Ocean

Category:Crustaceans described in 1820

Category:Taxa named by William Elford Leach