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 Islands, Clipperton Island, Costa Rica (Colorada,Cano and Nairita islands), Colombia (Gorgona Island) & continental mainland beaches of Mexico (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colima, Nayarit, Jalisco and Sinaloa)
- Johngarthia weileri (Sendler, 1912) – eastern Atlantic Ocean: coast of Cameroon and islands of the Gulf of Guinea
Notes
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.
- ↑ 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. 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.
- ↑ 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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