African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Chlorodius niger (Forskål, 1775)

AfReMaS name details

Chlorodius niger (Forskål, 1775)

AphiaID

210189 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210189)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Chlorodiella nigra (Forskål, 1775)

Rank

Species

Parent

Chlorodius Desmarest, 1823 accepted as Clorodius Desmarest, 1823 accepted as Atelecyclus Leach, 1814

Original name

Cancer niger Forskål, 1775

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059 [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Chlorodius niger (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210189 on 2026-01-25

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Chlorodius niger (Forskål, 1775). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210189 on 2026-01-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-09-11 16:01:23Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2014-09-22 07:27:15Z

changed

Ng, Peter

2022-04-08 10:05:46Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

2022-05-22 14:04:06Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description (of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

source of synonymy Bouvier, E.L. (1915). Decapodes marcheurs (Reptantia) et Stomatopodes recueillis a l'ile Maurice par M. Paul Carie. Bull. Scient. Fr. Belg. 3 (48): 178-318. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (77 publications)