Johngarthia

Johngarthia

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 the following five species:^{[Note 1]}

Johngarthia cocoensis Perger, Vargas & Wall, 2011 – eastern Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island off Costa Rica^[3]
Johngarthia lagostoma (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) – southern Atlantic Ocean: Ascension Island, Ilha Trindade, Fernando de Noronha & Atol das Rocas
Johngarthia malpilensis (Faxon, 1893) – eastern Pacific Ocean: Malpelo Island
Johngarthia planata (Stimpson, 1860) – eastern Pacific Ocean: Gulf of California, Revillagigedo & Clipperton Island
Johngarthia weileri (Sendler, 1912) – eastern Atlantic Ocean: coast of Cameroon and islands of the Gulf of Guinea

Notes

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

References

^ 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. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf.
^ 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 (in French) (PDF). Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d'un microcosme océanique. Patrimoines naturels. 68. MNHN / IRD. pp. 333–345. ISBN 978-2-85653-612-4. http://decapoda.ecole-navale.fr/pdf/bouchard-poupin-2009-gecarcinus-clipperton.pdf.
^ 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. http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z02911p068f.pdf.