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Grapsus Lamarck 1801

Description

Genus Grapsus Lamarck, 1801

Type species. Cancer grapsus Linnaeus, 1758 [Type locality: Bahama Islands, by means of lectotype selection by Holthuis, 1977: 145]

Remarks. Two Atlantic species, G. adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765) (see Linnaeus, 1758: 630 pro parte– only material from “Insula Adscensionis”) from the eastern Atlantic and central Atlantic (Ascension and St. Helena) (Manning & Chace, 1990) and G. grapsus (see below).

Notes

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 pages 91-92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7626155

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Grapsidae
Genus
Grapsus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lamarck
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Grapsus Lamarck, 1801 sec. In, 2022

References

  • Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de Monet de (1801) Systeme [sic] des Animaux sans Vertebres, ou Tableau general des Classes, des Ordres et des Genres de ces Animaux; presentant leurs Caracteres essentiels et leur Distribution d'apres les Considerations de leurs Rapports naturels et de leur Organisation, et suivant l'Arrangement etabli dans les Galeries du Museum d'Histoire naturelle, parmi leurs Depouilles conservees; precede du Discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie donne dans le Museum national d'Histoire naturelle l'an VIII de la Republique. Deterville, Paris, pp. I - viii + 1 - 432. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 116650
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. 10 th Edition. Impensis Direct, Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, iii + 824 pp https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542
  • Holthuis, L. B. (1977) The Grapsidae, Gecarcinidae and Palicidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of the Red Sea. Israel Journal of Zoology, 26, 141 - 192.
  • Manning, R. B. & Chace, F. A. Jr. (1990) Decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 503, 1 - 91. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.503