Biology:Johngarthia planata
| Johngarthia planata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinidae |
| Genus: | Johngarthia |
| Species: | J. planata
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| Binomial name | |
| Johngarthia planata (Stimpson, 1860)
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| Synonyms [1] | |
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Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson, 1860 | |
Johngarthia planata is a bright orange species of land crab that lives on inshore islands and the continental mainland coast of the tropical and subtropical Pacific coast of the Americas, including the 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).[2][3] The crabs are omnivorous and feed on seaweed (algae), vegetation and sometimes carrion.
Prior to 2019, Clipperton crabs, the land crabs on Clipperton Island in the eastern Pacific and on Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands off Mexico, were grouped with J. palanata; however, revaluation determined them to belong to a separate species, J. oceanica (Perger, 2019).[4] J. oceanica differs from J. planata in the shape of the mesial lobe of the infraorbital margin and the color of its carapace.[4]
References
- Notes
- ↑ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot; Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf.
- ↑ Davie, P. (2015). "Johngarthia planata (Stimpson, 1860)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=444454.
- ↑ Robert Perger; Jorge Cortes; Cristian Pacheco (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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Perger, Robert (2019-04-12). "A New Species of Johngarthia from Clipperton and Socorro Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)". Pacific Science 73 (2): 285. 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.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q13373459 entry
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