Traits taxon details
Pleistacantha Miers, 1879
206910 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206910)
accepted
Genus
Pleistacantha sanctijohannis Miers, 1879 (type by original designation)
- Species Pleistacantha cervicornis Ihle & Ihle-Landenberg, 1931
- Species Pleistacantha exophthalmus Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1982
- Species Pleistacantha griffini Ahyong & T Lee, 2006
- Species Pleistacantha kannu Ng, Ravinesh & Ravichandran, 2017
- Species Pleistacantha maxima Ahyong & T Lee, 2006
- Species Pleistacantha moseleyi (Miers in Tizard, Moseley, Buchanan & Murray, 1885)
- Species Pleistacantha naresii (Miers in Tizard, Moseley, Buchanan & Murray, 1885)
- Species Pleistacantha ori Ahyong & Ng, 2007
- Species Pleistacantha oryx Ortmann, 1893
- Species Pleistacantha pungens (Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
- Species Pleistacantha rubida (Alcock, 1895)
- Species Pleistacantha sanctijohannis Miers, 1879
- Species Pleistacantha stilipes Ahyong, Chen & Ng, 2005
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Miers, E. J. (1879). On a collection of Crustacea made by Capt. H.C. St. John, R.N., in the Corean and Japanese Seas. With an appendix by Capt. H.C. St. John. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1879(1): 18-61, pls. I-III. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Pleistacantha Miers, 1879. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206910 on 2025-04-04
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Pleistacantha Miers, 1879. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206910 on 2025-04-04
Date
action
by
2006-09-27 07:06:07Z
changed
Martinez, Olga
original description
Miers, E. J. (1879). On a collection of Crustacea made by Capt. H.C. St. John, R.N., in the Corean and Japanese Seas. With an appendix by Capt. H.C. St. John. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1879(1): 18-61, pls. I-III. [details]
taxonomy source Marco-Herrero, E., Torres, A. P., Cuesta, J. A., Guerao, G., Palero, F. & Abelló, P. (2013). The systematic position of <i>Ergasticus</i> (Decapoda, Brachyura) and allied genera, a molecular and morphological approach. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 42(4): 427–439., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12012 [details]
basis of record Barnard, K.H. (1950). Descriptive catalogue of South African decapod Crustacea (crabs and shrimps). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 38: 1-837. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Ng, P.K.L.; Ravinesh, R.; Ravichandran, S. (2017). A new large oregoniid spider crab of the genus <em>Pleistacantha</em> Miers, 1879, from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 716: 127-146., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.716.21349 [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Marco-Herrero, E., Torres, A. P., Cuesta, J. A., Guerao, G., Palero, F. & Abelló, P. (2013). The systematic position of <i>Ergasticus</i> (Decapoda, Brachyura) and allied genera, a molecular and morphological approach. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 42(4): 427–439., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12012 [details]
basis of record Barnard, K.H. (1950). Descriptive catalogue of South African decapod Crustacea (crabs and shrimps). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 38: 1-837. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Ng, P.K.L.; Ravinesh, R.; Ravichandran, S. (2017). A new large oregoniid spider crab of the genus <em>Pleistacantha</em> Miers, 1879, from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 716: 127-146., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.716.21349 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
