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Acanthocarpus alexandri Stimpson, 1871 
AphiaID: 158044

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Calappoidea (Superfamily) > Calappidae (Family) > Acanthocarpus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Acanthocarpus Stimpson, 1871
Parent Acanthocarpus Stimpson, 1871
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Williams, A.B. 1984. Shrimps, lobsters, and crabs of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 550 p. [details]

additional source: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English gladiator box crab  [details]
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Georges Bank off Massachusetts to west coast of Florida; Puerto Rico to Grenadines; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158044
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-02-25 15:57:43Z  changed  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Acanthocarpus alexandri Stimpson, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158044 on 2013-05-24
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