WoRMS taxon details
Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767)
AphiaID: 208668
AphiaID: 208668
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Paguroidea (Superfamily) > Coenobitidae (Family) > Birgus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||
| Parent | Birgus Leach, 1816 | |||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Birgus laticauda Latreille, 1829 Cancer crumenatus Rumphius, 1705 (pre-linnean name) Cancer crumenatus orientalis Seba, 1759 Cancer latro Linnaeus, 1767 (transferred to Birgus by Latreille (1816)) | |||||||||||||||
| 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] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, terrestrial | |||||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Indian Ocean [details] French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] Wallis and Futuna Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Indian Ocean [details] West Pacific [details] | |||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (405 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection | |||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208668 | |||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: McLaughlin, P. (2013). Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767). 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=208668 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||
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