WoRMS taxon details
Lithodes maja (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 107205
AphiaID: 107205
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Lithodoidea (Superfamily) > Lithodidae (Family) > Lithodes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lithodes Latreille, 1806 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cancer horridus Pennant, 1777 Cancer maja Linnaeus, 1758 Cancer spinosus Ascanius, 1776 Cancer spinosus amboinensis Seba, 1759 Inachus maja Fabricius, 1798 Lithodes arctica Latreille, 1806 Lithodes dubius Brandt, 1848 Lithodes maia Samouelle, 1819 Lithodes maia Smith, 1879 Maia vulgaris Bosc, 1802 Maja eriocheles Lamarck, 1801 Parthenope maja Fabricius, 1798 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Pohle, G.W. 1990. A guide to decapod Crustacea from the Canadian Atlantic: Anomura and Brachyura. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 1771. 29 p. [details] additional source: McLaughlin, Patsy A.; Komai, Tomoyuki; Lemaitre, Rafael; Listyo Rahayu, Dwi. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 23: 5-107 [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1999). Inventaire et distribution des crustacés décapodes de l'Atlantique nord-oriental, de la Méditerranée et des eaux continentales adjacentes au nord de 25°N [Inventory and distribution of the decapod crustaceans from the northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the adjacent continental waters north of 25°N]. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 40. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-86515-114-10. X, 383 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Isle of Man [details] North West Atlantic [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (22 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 10 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: West Greenland to Sandy Hook, to New Jersey [details] Distribution: Locally common, extending not further south than Isle of Man [details] Habitat: bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Spelling: Lithodes maia [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107205 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Türkay, M. (2013). Lithodes maja (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107205 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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