WoRMS taxon details
Metopograpsus messor (Forskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 207536
AphiaID: 207536
| 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) > Metopograpsus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Metopograpsus H. Milne Edwards, 1853 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cancer messor Forskål, 1775 Eurycarcinus messor (Forskal) Grapsus (Pachygrapsus) aethiopicus Hilgendorf, 1869 Grapsus gaimardi Audouin, 1826 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Hartnoll, R.G. (1975). The Grapsidae and Ocypodidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Tanzania. J. Zool. London 177, 305-328 [details] from synonym: Ruwa, R.K. (1989). Macrofaunal composition and zonation on sandy beaches at Gazi, Kanamai and Malindi Bay, Kenya. Kenya Journal of Sciences (Series B) 10 (1-2): 31-45 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Metopograpsus messor gracilipes de Man, 1891 accepted as Metopograpsus frontalis Miers, 1880 | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Abo [details] Aldabra [details] Bender Mtoni [details] East Africa [details] French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gesira [details] Kenya [details] Lach Badana [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mayotte Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Sar Uanle [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] West Pacific [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (73 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Tropical Indo-Pacific, also distributed in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details] Remark: A number of (eastern Indian Ocean?) records for this species were based on incorrectly identified material due to confusion with M. hukuhar (Owen 1839) and M. frontalis Miers 1880 (Al-Ghais & Cooper, 1996). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207536 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Metopograpsus messor (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207536 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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