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Ovalipes ocellatus (Herbst, 1799) 
AphiaID: 158434

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Portunoidea (Superfamily) > Polybiidae (Family) > Ovalipes (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ovalipes Rathbun, 1898
Synonymised
taxa		  Cancer ocellatus Herbst, 1799
 Portunus pictus Say, 1817
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: 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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English lady crab  [details]
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region); Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) to Florida. [details]

Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images 
Ovalipes ocellatus - preserved
Ovalipes ocellatus - preserved
added on 2010-09-30 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked

Ovalipes ocellatus - Lady crab
Ovalipes ocellatus - Lady crab
added on 2010-12-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marie-Hélène Thériault ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158434
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 07:43:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-02-25 15:57:43Z  changed  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Ovalipes ocellatus (Herbst, 1799). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158434 on 2013-05-23
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