Grapsus Lamarck 1801
- Dataset
- Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Grapsidae
- genus
- Grapsus
discussion
Remarks. Two Atlantic species, G. adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765) (see Linnaeus, 1758: 630 pro parte – only material from “ Insula Adscensionis ”) from the eastern Atlantic and central Atlantic (Ascension and St. Helena) (Manning & Chace, 1990) and G. grapsus (see below).
type_taxon
Type species. Cancer grapsus Linnaeus, 1758 [Type locality: Bahama Islands, by means of lectotype selection by Holthuis, 1977: 145]
Name
- Homonyms
- Grapsus Lamarck 1801