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Upogebia capensis (Krauss, 1843) 
AphiaID: 246491

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Gebiidea (Infraorder) > Upogebiidae (Family) > Upogebia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Upogebia Leach, 1814
Synonymised
taxa
  Gebia capensis Krauss, 1843 (superseded combination)
Gebia major capensis Krauss, 1843 (elevated to species rank)
Gebia subspinosa Stimpson, 1860 (junior synonym)
Upogebia (Upogebia) capensis (Krauss, 1843) (superseded combination)
Upogebia (Upogebia) subspinosa (Stimpson, 1860) (junior synonym)
Upogebia subspinosa (Krauss, 1843) (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Krauss, F. (1843) Die Südafrikanischen Crustaceen. Eine Zusammenstellung aller bekannten Malacostraca, Bemerkungen über deren Lebensweise und geographische Verbreitung, nebst Beschrwibung und Abbildung mehrer neuen Arten. Schweizerbartsche, Stuttgart, 68, 4 pls. [details]

additional source: Sakai, K. (2006) Upogebiidae of the world (Decapoda, Thalassinidea). Crustaceana Monographs, 6, 1-185. [details]

additional source: Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125 (13):292 p. [details]

from synonym: Stimpson, W., 1860a. Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republic Federata missa, Cadwaladore Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars VIII, Crustacea Macrura.— Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1860: 22-47. [pages 91-116 on separate] [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Afrikaans moddergarnaal  [details]
English Cape mud shrimp  [details]
English mud prawn  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution FAO fishing area 47 [details]
FAO fishing area 51 [details]
Mozambique [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246491
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-09-12 07:13:21Z  created  Vandepitte, Leen
2010-05-26 13:01:11Z  checked  Poore, Gary
  
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  Citation: Poore, G. (2013). Upogebia capensis (Krauss, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246491 on 2013-05-23
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