WoRMS taxon details
Varuna litterata (Fabricius, 1798)
AphiaID: 207551
AphiaID: 207551
| 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) > Varunidae (Family) > Varuninae (Subfamily) > Varuna (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Varuna H. Milne Edwards, in Audouin et al., 1830 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alpheus litteratus Weber, 1795 (nomen nudum) Cancer litterata Fabricius, 1798 Varuna tomentosa Pfeffer, 1889 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Hartnoll, R.G. (1975). The Grapsidae and Ocypodidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Tanzania. J. Zool. London 177, 305-328 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] East Africa [details] French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mayotte Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mozambique [details] New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Old Uager [details] Réunion Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Indian Ocean [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207551 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Varuna litterata (Fabricius, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207551 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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