Canadian Register of Marine Species

WoRMS taxon details

Hepatus Bosc, 1801

AphiaID

158419 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158419)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Calappa angustata Fabricius, 1798 accepted as Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785) (type by monotypy)

Type taxon of

Hepatinae Stimpson, 1871

Parent

Aethridae Dana, 1851

Original name

Hepatus Bosc, 1801

Synonymised names

Cyclocancer Beurlen, 1958 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Hepatulus Fowler, 1912 · unaccepted (unnecessary replacement name for...)

unnecessary replacement name for Hepatus Latreille, 1802

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Species Hepatus chiliensis H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Species Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763)
Species Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959
Species Hepatus kossmanni Neumann, 1878
Species Hepatus lineatus Rathbun, 1898
Species Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785)
Species Hepatus scaber Holthuis, 1959
Species Hepatus calappoides Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Hepatus fasciatus Latreille, 1803 accepted as Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Hepatus perlatus Poeppig, 1836 accepted as Pilumnoides perlatus (Poeppig, 1836) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Hepatus tuberculatus de Saussure, 1858 accepted as Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Hepatus vanbenedenii Herklots, 1852 accepted as Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Bosc, L.A.G. (1801). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, Contenant leur Description et leurs Moeurs; avec Figures Dessinées d'Après Nature. Tome premier. Suite à Boffon, Paris. Deterville, Paris, 258 pp., pls. 1–8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6256135#page/15/mode/1up [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Hepatus Bosc, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158419 on 2025-05-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-26 07:43:32Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2009-12-16 08:58:17Z

checked

Davie, Peter

2011-01-19 07:58:39Z

changed

Davie, Peter

2020-06-30 09:45:25Z

changed

Ahyong, Shane

2022-09-05 02:24:34Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2022-10-24 08:22:40Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Bosc, L.A.G. (1801). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, Contenant leur Description et leurs Moeurs; avec Figures Dessinées d'Après Nature. Tome premier. Suite à Boffon, Paris. Deterville, Paris, 258 pp., pls. 1–8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6256135#page/15/mode/1up [details]

original description (of Hepatulus Fowler, 1912) Fowler, H.W. (1912). The Crustacea of New Jersey. Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum. 1911(Part II): 29-650, pls. 1-150 [ for 1911]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11099588 [details]

original description (of Cyclocancer Beurlen, 1958 †) Beurlen, K. (1958). Contribuição à paleontologia do estado do Pará, Crustáceos decápodes da Formação Pirabas I. (Arthropoda, Crustacea). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, nova série, Geologia. 5: 1–48. [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú. 27(1-2): 8-207., available online at https://repositorio.imarpe.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12958/2190 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hepatus)
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