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Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Uca marionis
Uca marionis

207597  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207597)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Brachyura (Infraorder)
  12. Eubrachyura (Section)
  13. Thoracotremata (Subsection)
  14. Ocypodoidea (Superfamily)
  15. Ocypodidae (Family)
  16. Ocypodinae (Subfamily)
  17. Uca (Genus)
  18. Uca (Gelasimus) (Subgenus)
  19. Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination
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  1. Subspecies Uca (Gelasimus) vocans excisa (Nobili, 1906) accepted as Gelasimus excisus (Nobili, 1906) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  2. Subspecies Uca (Gelasimus) vocans pacificensis Crane, 1975 accepted as Gelasimus excisus (Nobili, 1906) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  3. Subspecies Uca (Gelasimus) vocans vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Gelasimus vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) (status change)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Cancer vocans Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207597 on 2025-04-04
Date
action
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1997-02-13 09:54:01Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-01-19 07:57:53Z
changed
Davie, Peter
2017-02-08 15:50:07Z
changed
Davie, Peter
2020-09-02 19:03:26Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-11-21 18:26:21Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cancer vocans Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Hartnoll, R.G. (1975). The Grapsidae and Ocypodidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Tanzania. J. Zool. London 177, 305-328 [details] 

Other

context source (HKRMS) Tam, F. Y. & Wong, Y. S. (1997). Ecological study on mangrove stands in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Submitted to AFCD. [details] 

additional source Ng, P.K.L.; Guinot, D.; Davie, P.J.F. (2008). Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of the extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. <em>The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 17: 1-286. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Habitat Burrows in beaches with mangrove vegetation. [details]
LanguageName 
Japanese ヒメシオマネキ  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Uca marionis (Desmarest, 1823))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Uca marionis (Desmarest, 1823))
From editor or global species database
Uca marionis
Uca marionis
Image from synonym