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Coenobita scaevola (Forskål, 1775) 
AphiaID: 208658

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Paguroidea (Superfamily) > Coenobitidae (Family) > Coenobita (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Coenobita Latreille, 1829
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer scaevola Forskål, 1775
Cancer scavecola Forskal, 1775 (transferred to Coenobita by Costa (1965))
Coenobita compressa var. jousseaumei Bouvier, 1892 (junior synonym)
Coenobita rugosa var. granulata Bouvier, 1890
Coenobita rugosa var. jousseaumei Bouvier, 1890 (junior synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Reay, P.J. & J. Haig (1990). Coastal hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura) from Kenya, with a review and key to East African species. Bulletin of Marine Science 46(3): 578-589 [details]

additional source: McLaughlin, Patsy A.; Komai, Tomoyuki; Lemaitre, Rafael; Listyo Rahayu, Dwi. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 23: 5-107 [details]

Distribution Eritrea [details]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia [details]
Specimen  Unknown type , locality Saudi Arabia (Jidda) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
Note  Remark: According to Lewinsohn 1969 <207>, Coenobita rugosus/a (and var jousseaumei), and the record for C. compressa of Bouvier 1892 belong here. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208658
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-04-14 10:21:13Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2009-08-17 13:15:28Z  changed  McLaughlin, Patsy
2010-09-16 12:23:50Z  changed  McLaughlin, Patsy
  
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  Citation: McLaughlin, P. (2013). Coenobita scaevola (Forskål, 1775). In: Lemaitre, R.; McLaughlin, P. (2013) World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208658 on 2013-05-25
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