Johngarthia

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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]

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. 
  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)" (PDF). In Loïc Charpy. Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d'un microcosme océanique. 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.

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