Carcinus maenas, author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Caridina cantonensis
Portunus xantusii at Ventura, CA, author: Clabuesch, Cecilia
Aristeus antillensis - dorsal view, author: Nozes, Claude

DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

Decanet name details

Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798)

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107388  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107388)

 unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Portunus holsatus Fabricius, 1798) Fabricius, J.C. (1798). Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae: Proft et Storck: 1-572., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25565932
page(s): 366 [details] 
Distribution L. holsatus is one of the most common crabs in the fauna of Belgium and the Netherlands. They can wash ashore with thousand...  
Distribution L. holsatus is one of the most common crabs in the fauna of Belgium and the Netherlands. They can wash ashore with thousand species at a time. [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798). Accessed at: https://www.decanet.info/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107388 on 2025-09-12
Date
action
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Türkay, Michael
2007-06-12 14:12:52Z
checked
Fransen, Charles
2022-03-26 13:01:55Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-07-08 08:34:34Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2024-01-11 17:05:08Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2024-05-13 15:28:37Z
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de Mazancourt, Valentin

original description (of Portunus holsatus Fabricius, 1798) Fabricius, J.C. (1798). Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae: Proft et Storck: 1-572., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25565932
page(s): 366 [details] 

context source (Schelde) Goudswaard, K.; van Asch, M. (2015). Kuilen op de Westerschelde: data rapport 2015. <em>IMARES Wageningen Report, C145/15. IMARES Wageningen UR: Yerseke.</em> 14 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

context source (BeRMS 2020) Marine Biology Section, Ugent. Belgium. INRAM. Benthic fauna monitoring- SSD - Belgian Science Policy., available online at http://www.vliz.be/projects/inram/imers.php. [details] 

basis of record Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands, 244 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Distribution L. holsatus is one of the most common crabs in the fauna of Belgium and the Netherlands. They can wash ashore with thousand species at a time. [details]
LanguageName 
Danish glat svømmekrabbe  [details]
Dutch witte krabslabraaiporceleinkrabbetjekleine zeekrabgewone zwemkrabgewone zeekrab  [details]
English swimming crabflying swimming crabflying crabcommon swimming crab  [details]
French crabe nageur  [details]
German Ruderkrabbegemeine Schwimmkrabbe  [details]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland 
Marine Life Information Network - UK 
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To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) 
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Liocarcinus holsatus) 
To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 24 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (14 records) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database