Perisesarma

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Perisesarma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Sesarmidae
Genus: Perisesarma
De Man, 1895 [1]
Species

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

[edit] Species

  • Perisesarma samawati Gillikin and Schubart, 2004
  • Perisesarma bengalense Davie, 2003 [1]
  • Perisesarma cricotus Rahayu and Davie, 2002
  • Perisesarma foresti Rahayu and Davie, 2002
  • Perisesarma maipoensis (Soh, 1978)
  • Perisesarma messa (Campbell, 1967)
  • Perisesarma brevicristatum (Campbell, 1967)
  • Perisesarma darwinensis (Campbell, 1967)
  • Perisesarma longicristatum (Campbell, 1967)
  • Perisesarma lanchesteri (Tweedie, 1936)
  • Perisesarma alberti Rathbun, 1921
  • Perisesarma indiarum (De Man, 1902)
  • Perisesarma fasciatum (Lanchester, 1900)
  • Perisesarma onychophorum (De Man, 1895)
  • Perisesarma eumolpe (De Man, 1895)
  • Perisesarma semperi (Bürger, 1893)
  • Perisesarma haswelli (De Man, 1887)
  • Perisesarma kammermani (De Man, 1883)
  • Perisesarma lividum (A. Milne Edwards, 1869)
  • Perisesarma guttatum (A. Milne Edwards, 1869)
  • Perisesarma dussumieri (H. Milne Edwards, 1853)
  • Perisesarma bidens (De Haan, 1835)
  • Perisesarma huzardi (Desmarest, 1825)

[edit] References

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