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Telmessus cheiragonus (Tilesius, 1812) 
AphiaID: 254360

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Cheiragonoidea (Superfamily) > Cheiragonidae (Family) > Telmessus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Added by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Telmessus White, 1846
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer cheiragonus Tilesius, 1812
Cheiragonus hippocarcinoides Brandt, 1851
Platycorystes ambiguus Brandt, 1848
Telmessus serratus White, 1846
Source  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English helmet crab  [details]
Environment marine
Links To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254360
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-12-06 13:48:25Z  created  Huettmann, Falk
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Telmessus cheiragonus (Tilesius, 1812). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254360 on 2013-06-19
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