Callinectes exasperatus
creator: Davie, Peter
creator: De Grave, Sammy
creator: Ahyong, Shane
date: 2026-08-25
language: en
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publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
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subject: Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: DecaNet eds. (2026). DecaNet. Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=422037 on 2026-08-25
created: 2009-10-06T14:38:14Z
modified: 2023-07-05T05:51:53Z
replaces: 452075
replaces: 451762
replaces: 453825
rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856)
class: Malacostraca
family: Portunidae
genus: Callinectes
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Gerstaecker, A. (1856). Carcinologische Beiträge. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 22(1): 101-162, pls. 4-6.
name published in: Leach, W.E. (1816 [1815]). A tabular View of the external Characters of Four Classes of Animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta, with the Distribution of the Genera comprising Three of these Classes into Orders &c. and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 11(2): 306-400.
name published in: Ordway, A. (1863). Monograph of the genus Callinectes. Boston Journal of Natural History, Containing Papers and Communications, Read to the Boston Society of Natural History, 1859–1863. 7(4): 567-583.
name published in year: 1856
name published in year: 1816 [1815]
name published in year: 1863
order: Decapoda
parent name usage ID: 106921
phylum: Arthropoda
scientific name authorship: (Gerstaecker, 1856)
specific epithet: exasperatus
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted