Marine Species Traits - Lepidopa californica Efford, 1971

WoRMS taxon details

Lepidopa californica Efford, 1971

AphiaID

467745 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:467745)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Lepidopa Stimpson, 1858

Original name

Lepidopa californica Efford, 1971

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Efford, I. E. (1971). The species of sand crabs in the genus Lepidopa (Decapoda: Albuneidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig 186(1/2): 59-102. [details] Available for editors

[request]

Type data

Type locality contained in California

type locality contained in California [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Lepidopa californica Efford, 1971. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467745 on 2025-05-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-04-16 05:58:26Z

created

Boyko, Christopher B.

2016-01-31 13:50:15Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Efford, I. E. (1971). The species of sand crabs in the genus Lepidopa (Decapoda: Albuneidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig 186(1/2): 59-102. [details] Available for editors

[request]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	California mole crab	[details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lepidopa californica)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (12 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 42213)
To ITIS