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Gecarcinus ruricola (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 422185

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Thoracotremata (Subsection) > Grapsoidea (Superfamily) > Gecarcinidae (Family) > Gecarcinus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Gecarcinus Leach, 1814
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer ruricola Linnaeus, 1758
Gecarcinus agricola Reichenbach, 1828
Ocypode rubra Fréminville, 1835
Ocypode tourlourou Latreille, 1803
Sources  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]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (137 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Gecarcinus ruricola
Gecarcinus ruricola
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:422185
Taxonomic
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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). Gecarcinus ruricola (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=422185 on 2013-05-23
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