TWO NEW SPECIES OF PYLOPAGUROPSIS ALCOCK (CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA: ANOMURA: PAGURIDAE) FROM THE PHILIPPINES

Two new species of the pagurid genus Pylopaguropsis Alcock, 1905 are described and illustrated from the Bohol Sea, the Philippines. Pylopaguropsis pygmaeus, new species, resembles P. keijii McLaughlin & Haig, 1989, P. lemaitrei Asakura & Pauly, 2003, P. lewinsohni McLaughlin & Haig, 1989 and P. zebra (Henderson, 1893) in sharing appreciably dissimilar third pereopods and relatively long ocular peduncles, but differs in having corneas not dilated, and fewer corneous spines on the ventral margins of the dactyls of the ambulatory legs. Pylopaguropsis similis, new species, differs from the closely related species P. bellula Osawa & Okuno, 2007, P. furusei Asakura, 2000, P. laevispinosa McLaughlin & Haig, 1989 and P. vicina Komai & Osawa, 2004, by the relatively long, acute spines on the right palm, the lack of additional dorsal spines or spinules on the carpi of the second pereopods and two rows (rather than one) of corneous scales on the propodal rasp of the fourth pereopod.