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Mithraculus White 1847

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Genus Mithraculus White, 1847

Type species. Mithraculus coronatus White, 1847 [Type locality: West Indies].

Remarks. Mithraculus is amphi-American in distribution and is currently formed by nine species: Mithraculus cancasense Türkay, 1967) [Mithrax (Mithraculus)] (EP); M. cinctimanus Stimpson, 1860 (WA); M. coronatus White, 1847 (WA); M. coryphe (Herbst, 1801) [Cancer] (WA); M. denticulatus (Bell, 1835) [Mithrax] (EP); M. forceps A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (WA); M. nodosus (Bell, 1835) [Mithrax] (EP); M. rostratus (Bell, 1835) [Mithrax] (EP); and M. sculptus (Lamarck, 1818 [Maia] (WA). Mithraculus ruber Stimpson, 1871a (WA), has been transferred to Teleophrys (see below) by Windsor & Felder (2014).

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Published as part of In, First Published, 2022, Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 5146 on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7626155

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E3878AA85EFF8104F48F73FD0FFF20

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7626155 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFDAFFF2A878FFA604638879FFE8FFD9 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03E3878AA85EFF8104F48F73FD0FFF20 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/209289725 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/53704/taxon/03E3878AA85EFF8104F48F73FD0FFF20.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Mithracidae
Genus
Mithraculus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
White
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mithraculus White, 1847 sec. In, 2022

References

  • White, A. (1847) List of the Species in the Collections of the British Museum. British Museum, London, viii + 143 pp.
  • Turkay, M. (1967) Neue Brachyuren von der Westkuste Sudamerikas. Seckenbergiana biologica, 48 (5 / 6), 361 - 364.
  • Stimpson, W. (1860) Notes on North American Crustacea in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, n 2. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 7, 176 - 246. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1749 - 6632.1862. tb 00153. x
  • Bell, T. (1835) Some account of the Crustacea of the coasts of South America, with descriptions of new genera and species; founded principally on the collections obtained by Mr Cuming and Mr Miller. (Tribus 1, Oxyrhynchi). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 3, 169 - 173. [https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 12859433]
  • Lamarck, J. B. P. A. (1818) Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres, presentant les caracteres generaux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales especes qui s'y rapportent; precedee d'une introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l'animal, sa distinction du vegetal et des autres corps naturels, enfin, l'exposition des principes fondamentaux de la zoologie, 5, 1 - 612.
  • Stimpson, W. (1871 a) Preliminary Report on the Crustacea Dredged in the Gulf Stream in the Straits of Florida, by L. F. de Pourtales, Assist. U. S. Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 2, 109 - 160.
  • Windsor A. & Felder, D. L. (2014) Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomic reanalysis of the family Mithracidae MacLeay (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea). Invertebrate Systematics 28, 145 - 173, figs. 1 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 13011.