WoRMS taxon details
Calcinus elegans (H. Milne Edwards, 1836)
AphiaID: 208679
AphiaID: 208679
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Paguroidea (Superfamily) > Diogenidae (Family) > Calcinus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Calcinus Dana, 1851 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Pagurus decorus Randall, 1840 (junior synonym) Pagurus elegans H. Milne Edwards, 1836 (transferred to Calcinus by Dana (1852)) Pagurus fasciatus Bell, 1853 Pagurus pictus Owen, 1839 (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 | East Africa [details] French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Réunion Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Wallis and Futuna Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype: MNHN Pg 1934, locality New Guinea (New Ireland) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (153 nucleotides; 151 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208679 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: McLaughlin, P. (2013). Calcinus elegans (H. Milne Edwards, 1836). 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=208679 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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