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Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 107462

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Thoracotremata (Subsection) > Grapsoidea (Superfamily) > Grapsidae (Family) > Planes (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Planes Bowdich, 1825
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer cantonensis Linnaeus, 1747 (unavailable pre-1758 name)
Cancer minutus Linnaeus, 1758
Cancer pusillus Fabricius, 1775 (synonym)
Grapsus diris Costa, 1853
Grapsus pelagicus Say, 1818
Grapsus testudinum Roux, 1828
Nautilograpsus smithii MacLeay, 1838
Planes clypeatus Bowdich, 1825 (synonym)
Planes linnaeana Bell, 1845
Planes linnaeana Leach, in White, 1847 (nomen nudum)
Planes testudinum (Roux, 1828)
Sources  original description: 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]

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]

basis of record: Vannini, M. (1976). Researches on the coast of Somalia. The shore and the Dune of Sar Uanle. 10. Sandy Beach Decapods. Monitore Zoologico Italiano NS Supplemento VIII 10: 255-286 [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record (from synonym): Froglia, Carlo (2006). Decapoda, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana., available online at http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/ [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch Columbus krab  [details]
Dutch Columbuskrab  [details]
English Gulf weed crab  [details]
English Gulfweed crab  [details]
English Gulf-weed crab  [details]
English Sargassum crab  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Atlantic Europe [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
English Channel [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 34 [details]
FAO fishing area 47 [details]
Indian Ocean [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Pacific Ocean [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Somalia (not valid[details]
South Africa (country) [details]
South Atlantic [details]
South Coast of Ireland [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Africa [details]
West Coast of Ireland [details]
Western Cape [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Restricted to the Atlantic Ocean (Chace, 1951; Crosnier, 1965; Holthuis, 1977) <153>. According to Bouvier 1915 <204> travels over all oceans attached to floating debris. [details]

Distribution: Associated with floating 'Gulf Weed' (Sargassum spp.), pieces of which are occasionally cast ashore on European coasts from the Channel coasts to Portugal and Mediterranean. Native in Sargasso Sea, Florida Straits. [details]

Distribution: south of Newfoundland to 11°N [details]

Remark: Five Planes minutus were beached on a floating object on the Belgian coast on 2001-09-15

Carapax width of males: 20 and 23 mm
Carapax width of females: 19, 21 en 24 mm
 [details]
Image 
Planes minutus
Planes minutus
added on 2010-01-25 - author: De Blauwe, Hans
qualitystatus: checked by De Blauwe, Hans on 2010-01-25 16:23:16
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107462
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
2007-06-12 14:12:52Z  checked  Fransen, Charles
  
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  Citation: Fransen, C.; Türkay, M. (2013). Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107462 on 2013-06-18
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