Biology:Johngarthia

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Short description: Genus of crabs

Johngarthia
Johngarthia lagostoma yellow.jpg
Johngarthia lagostoma
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Gecarcinidae
Genus: Johngarthia
Türkay, 1970
Type species
Gecarcinus planatus
Stimpson, 1860

Johngarthia is a genus of crabs in the land crab family Gecarcinidae, formerly included in the genus Gecarcinus, and containing six species.[Note 1] The genus bears the name of John S. Garth, a 20th century naturalist who specialized in crabs and other arthropods.[3]

Image Name Distribution
Johngarthia cocoensis Perger, Vargas & Wall, 2011 Eastern Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island off Costa Rica[4]
Johngarthia malpilensis (Faxon, 1893) Eastern Pacific Ocean: Malpelo Island[5]
Gecarcinus johngarthia planatus - crabe de clipperton wiki14.JPG Johngarthia oceanica Perger, 2019
(Clipperton crab)
Eastern Pacific Ocean: Clipperton Island, Socorro Island (Revillagigedo Islands)[6]
Land Crab (Gecarcinus planatus) (8575065932).jpg Johngarthia planata (Stimpson, 1860) Eastern Pacific Ocean: Gulf of California, Costa Rica (Colorada, Cano and Nairita Islands), Colombia (Gorgona Island), and continental mainland beaches of Mexico (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colima, Nayarit, Jalisco and Sinaloa)[7]
Land Crab (Johngarthia sp. ?) on the beach (20942353943).jpg Johngarthia weileri (Sendler, 1912) Eastern Atlantic Ocean: coast of Cameroon and islands of the Gulf of Guinea[8]

Notes

  1. Nomenclature follows Ng et al. (2008).[1] Distributions are from Bouchard & Poupin (2009).[2]

References

  1. Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 
  2. Bouchard, Jean-Marie; Poupin, Joseph (2009). "Éléments d'écologie et nouveau recensement de la population du crabe terrestre Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda: Brachyura)". in Charpy, Loïc (in fr). Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d'un microcosme océanique. Patrimoines naturels. 68. Marseille, France: MNHN / Institut de recherche pour le développement. pp. 333–345. ISBN 978-2-85653-612-4. https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers19-08/010046923.pdf. Retrieved 2023-04-13. 
  3. Gershick, Zsa Zsa (1994-01-10). "USC Biologist, Explorer John Garth Dies" (in en-US). USC News. https://news.usc.edu/7693/USC-BIOLOGIST-EXPLORER-JOHN-GARTH-DIES/. 
  4. Perger, Robert; Vargas, Rita; Wall, Adam (2011). "Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica". Zootaxa 2911: 57–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2911.1.4. http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z02911p068f.pdf. 
  5. Faxon, Walter (1893). "Preliminary Descriptions of New Species of Crustacea: Gecarcinus malpilensis, sp. nov.". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts XXIV: 157–158. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28859557#page/196/mode/1up. Retrieved 2023-04-13. 
  6. Perger, Robert (April 2019). "A New Species of Johngarthia from Clipperton and Socorro Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)". Pacific Science 73 (2): 285–304. doi:10.2984/73.2.9. ISSN 0030-8870. https://bioone.org/journals/Pacific-Science/volume-73/issue-2/73.2.9/A-New-Species-of-Johngarthia-from-Clipperton-and-Socorro-Islands/10.2984/73.2.9.full. 
  7. Perger, Robert; Cortes, Jorge; Pacheco, Cristian (2013). "Closing a distributional gap of over 3000 km and encountering an invisible barrier: new presence/absence data for Johngarthia planata Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) for Central America and biogeographic notes on East Pacific Gecarcinidae". Crustaceana 86 (3): 268–277. doi:10.1163/15685403-00003172. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685403-00003172. 
  8. Sendler, Alexander (1912). "Zehnfusskrebse aus dem Wiesbadener Naturhistorischen Museum" (in de). Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 65: 191–194. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Jahrbuch-Nassauischen-Verein-Naturkunde_65_0189-0207.pdf. Retrieved 2023-04-13. 

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