Perisesarma

Perisesarma
	A red-clawed crab (Perisesarma bidens) in an aquarium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Sesarmidae
Genus:	Perisesarma; De Man, 1895
Species
	See text

Perisesarma is a genus of mangrove crabs in the family Sesarmidae (or Grapsidae in some classifications) predominantly found in the Indo-Pacific. Some 23 species are described as of late 2006, with two from West Africa: P. kammermani (De Man, 1883) and P. alberti Rathbun, 1921. They are typically small, semiterrestrial crabs found on the forest floor at low tide. They eat nearly anything they can, and try to eat anything that does not threaten them — including pencils and other objects dropped on the forest floor. The last species of the genus described is P. samawati Gillikin and Schubart (2004). It can be found in East Africa along with P. guttatum, but its sister species is P. eumolpe from Malaysian mangroves ^[2]^[3]

Species[]

Gillikin and Schubart, 2004
Davie, 2003 ^[1]
Rahayu and Davie, 2002
Rahayu and Davie, 2002
(Soh, 1978)
(Campbell, 1967)
(Campbell, 1967)
(Campbell, 1967)
(Campbell, 1967)
(Tweedie, 1936)
Rathbun, 1921
(De Man, 1902)
(Lanchester, 1900)
(De Man, 1895)
(De Man, 1895)
(Bürger, 1893)
(De Man, 1887)
(De Man, 1883)
(A. Milne Edwards, 1869)
Perisesarma guttatum (A. Milne Edwards, 1869)
(H. Milne Edwards, 1853)
Perisesarma bidens (De Haan, 1835)
(Desmarest, 1825)

References[]

^ ^a ^b Peter J. F. Davie (2003). "A new species of Perisesarma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from the Bay of Bengal" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51 (2): 387–391.
^ David Gillikin & Anouk Verheyden (2005-12-16). "A field guide to Kenyan mangroves".
^ David P. Gillikin & Christoph D. Schubart (2004). "Ecology and systematics of mangrove crabs of the genus Perisesarma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from East Africa" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (3): 435–445. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00125.x.

[Davie-1] Peter J. F. Davie (2003). "A new species of Perisesarma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from the Bay of Bengal" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51 (2): 387–391.

[Mangrove-2] David Gillikin & Anouk Verheyden (2005-12-16). "A field guide to Kenyan mangroves".

[samawati-3] David P. Gillikin & Christoph D. Schubart (2004). "Ecology and systematics of mangrove crabs of the genus Perisesarma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from East Africa" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (3): 435–445. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00125.x.

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