Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectio: Eubrachyura
Subsectio: Thoracotremata
Superfamilia: Grapsoidea
Familia: Gecarcinidae
Genus: Johngarthia
Species: J. cocoensis – J. lagostoma – J. malpilensis – J. oceanica – J. planata – J. weileri
Name
Johngarthia Türkay, 1970
References
Primary references
Türkay, M. 1970. Die Gecarcinidae Amerikas. Mit einem Anhang über Ucides Rathbun (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenbergiana biologica 51(5–6): 333–354.
Links
Perger, R., Vargas, R. & Wall, A. 2011. Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Zootaxa 2911: 57–68. Preview
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 |
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| Johngarthia cocoensis Perger, Vargas & Wall, 2011 | Eastern Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island off Costa Rica[4] | |
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Johngarthia lagostoma (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) | Southern Atlantic Ocean: Ascension Island, Ilha Trindade, Fernando de Noronha, and Atol das Rocas[5] |
| Johngarthia malpilensis (Faxon, 1893) | Eastern Pacific Ocean: Malpelo Island[6] | |
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Johngarthia oceanica Perger, 2019 (Clipperton crab) |
Eastern Pacific Ocean: Clipperton Island, Socorro Island (Revillagigedo Islands)[7] |
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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)[8] |
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Johngarthia weileri (Sendler, 1912) | Eastern Atlantic Ocean: coast of Cameroon and islands of the Gulf of Guinea[9] |
Notes
Nomenclature follows Ng et al. (2008).[1] Distributions are from Bouchard & Poupin (2009).[2]
References
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" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
Bouchard, Jean-Marie & Poupin, Joseph (2009). "Éléments d'écologie et nouveau recensement de la population du crabe terrestre Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda: Brachyura)" [Elements of ecology and new population census of land crab Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda: Brachyura)]. In Charpy, Loïc (ed.). Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d'un microcosme océanique [Clipperton: Environment and Biodiversity of an Oceanic Microcosm] (PDF). Patrimoines naturels (in French). Vol. 68. Marseille, France: MNHN / Institut de recherche pour le développement. pp. 333–345. ISBN 978-2-85653-612-4. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
Gershick, Zsa Zsa (1994-01-10). "USC Biologist, Explorer John Garth Dies". USC News. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
Perger, Robert; Vargas, Rita & Wall, Adam (2011). "Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2911: 57–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2911.1.4.
Milne-Edwards, Henri (1837). "Tribu des gécarciniens". Histoire naturelle des crustacés: comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Tome deuxième [Natural history of crustaceans: including the anatomy, physiology and classification of these animals. Second volume] (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de Roret. p. 27.
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. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
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. S2CID 146030476.
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.
Sendler, Alexander (1912). "Zehnfusskrebse aus dem Wiesbadener Naturhistorischen Museum" [Decapod crabs from the Natural History Museum in Wiesbaden] (PDF). Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde (in German). 65: 191–194. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
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