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Menippe mercenaria (Say, 1818) 
AphiaID: 422070

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Eriphioidea (Superfamily) > Menippidae (Family) > Menippe (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Menippe De Haan, 1833
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer mercenaria Say, 1818
Pseudocarcinus ocellatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834
Source  basis of record: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English southern stone crab  [details]
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (81 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (41 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:422070
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-10-06 12:38:14Z  created  db_admin
2010-01-20 06:47:20Z  checked  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Menippe mercenaria (Say, 1818). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=422070 on 2013-05-22
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