Johngarthia

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Johngarthia
Johngarthia lagostoma yellow.jpg
Johngarthia lagostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Gecarcinidae
Genus:
Johngarthia

Türkay, 1970
Type species
Gecarcinus planatus
Stimpson, 1860

Johngarthia is a genus of crabs in the land crab family Gecarcinidae, formerly included in the genus Gecarcinus, and containing these species:[Note 1]

Image Name Distribution
J. cocoensis Perger, Vargas & Wall, 2011 Eastern Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island off Costa Rica[3]
Johngarthia lagostoma yellow crop.jpg J. langostoma (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) Southern Atlantic Ocean: Ascension Island, Ilha Trindade, Fernando de Noronha, and Atol das Rocas
J. malpilensis (Faxon, 1893) Eastern Pacific Ocean: Malpelo Island
Gecarcinus johngarthia planatus - crabe de clipperton wiki14.JPG J. planata (Clipperton crab) (Stimpson, 1860) Eastern Pacific Ocean: Gulf of California, Revillagigedo Islands, Costa Rica (Colorada, Cano and Nairita Islands), Colombia (Gorgona Island), and continental mainland beaches of Mexico (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colima, Nayarit, Jalisco and Sinaloa)[4]
J. weileri (Sendler, 1912) Eastern Atlantic Ocean: coast of Cameroon and islands of the Gulf of Guinea
J. oceanica Perger 2019 Eastern Pacific Ocean: Socorro Island, Clipperton Island[5]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Nomenclature follows Ng et al. (2008).[1] Distributions are from Bouchard & Poupin (2009).[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  2. ^ Jean-Marie Bouchard & Joseph Poupin (2009). "Éléments d'écologie et nouveau recensement de la population du crabe terrestre Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson,1860 (Decapoda: Brachyura)". In Loïc Charpy (ed.). Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d'un microcosme océanique (PDF). Patrimoines naturels (in French). 68. MNHN / IRD. pp. 333–345. ISBN 978-2-85653-612-4.
  3. ^ Robert Perger; Rita Vargas & Adam Wall (2011). "Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 2911: 57–68.
  4. ^ Robert Perger; Jorge Cortes & Cristian Pacheco (2013). "Closing a distributional gap of over 3000 km and encountering an invisible barrier: new presence/absence data for Johngarthia planata Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) for Central America and biogeographic notes on East Pacific Gecarcinidae". Crustaceana. 86 (3): 268–277. doi:10.1163/15685403-00003172.
  5. ^ Perger, Robert (April 2019). "A New Species of Johngarthia from Clipperton and Socorro Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)". Pacific Science. 73 (2): 285–304. doi:10.2984/73.2.9. ISSN 0030-8870.

Further reading[]

  • Robert Perger "A New Species of Johngarthia from Clipperton and Socorro Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)," Pacific Science 73(2), (12 April 2019).

https://doi.org/10.2984/73.2.9


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