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Mithrax hispidus (Herbst, 1790) 
AphiaID: 158429

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Majoidea (Superfamily) > Majidae (Family) > Mithracinae (Subfamily) > Mithrax (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mithrax Latreille, 1816
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer hispidus Herbst, 1790
Maia spinicincta Lamarck, 1818
Mithrax carribbaeus Rathbun, 1920
Mithrax depressus A. Milne-Edwards, 1875
Mithrax laevimanus Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867
Sources  additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English coral crab  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Delaware Bay, off Charleston Harbour, S.C., and Georgia. Northwestern Gulf of Mexico; Bahamas and Florida Keys through West Indies to Sao Pauolo, Brazil [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158429
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 07:43:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-01-19 07:57:53Z  changed  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Mithrax hispidus (Herbst, 1790). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158429 on 2013-05-18
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