Marine Species Traits - Polybius navigator (Herbst, 1794)

BeRMS taxon details

Polybius navigator (Herbst, 1794)

Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794)

AphiaID

1752525 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1752525)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Polybius Leach, 1820

Original name

Cancer navigator Herbst, 1794

Synonymised names

Cancer navigator Herbst, 1794 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Cancer navigator Herbst, 1794) Herbst, J. F. W. (1791-1796). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten. Zweyter Band. Mit XXV Kupfer-Tafeln und Register. Krebse. Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin und Stralsund, viii + 225 + [1] pp. 25 pls. [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Polybius navigator (Herbst, 1794). Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards) Belgian Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1752525 on 2025-06-05

Regional species database citation

VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards). Belgian Register of Marine Species. Polybius navigator (Herbst, 1794). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/berms./aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1752525 on 2025-06-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2024-05-20 09:27:04Z

created

De Grave, Sammy

Licensing

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[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Cancer navigator Herbst, 1794) Herbst, J. F. W. (1791-1796). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten. Zweyter Band. Mit XXV Kupfer-Tafeln und Register. Krebse. Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin und Stralsund, viii + 225 + [1] pp. 25 pls. [details]

new combination reference García-Raso, E.; d'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Moukrim, A.; Schubart, C.D.; Cuesta, J.A. (2024). A new cryptic species of Polybiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunoidea) from the East Atlantic, with considerations on the genus <i>Polybius</i>. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 930: 277-313., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.930.2501 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
Dutch	gewimperde zwemkrab [from synonym]	[details]
English	arch-fronted swimming crab [from synonym]	[details]
German	Gewimperte Schwimmkrabbe [from synonym]	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Ποντικοκάβουρας [from synonym]	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	rettsnutesvømmekrabbe [from synonym]	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	rettsnutesymjekrabbe [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes) (from synonym Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Liocarcinus navigator) (from synonym Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794))
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 14 proteins) (from synonym Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794))
To PESI (from synonym Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (17 records) (from synonym Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794))

From editor or global species database

Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794)

Image from synonym

Zwemkrabben

Image from synonym