Galathea intermedia, author: Eneman, Eddy
Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) + eggs, author: Nuyttens, Filip
Portunus hastatus, author: Pillon, Roberto
Caridina variabilirostris, author: Gerbeaux, Philippe

DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

AfReMaS taxon details

Lybia caestifera (Alcock, 1898)

208968  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208968)

  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. Heterotremata (Subsection)
  14. Xanthoidea (Superfamily)
  15. Xanthidae (Family)
  16. Polydectinae (Subfamily)
  17. Lybia (Genus)
  18. Lybia caestifera (Species)
accepted
Species
Melia caestifer Alcock, 1898 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Melia caestifer Alcock, 1898) Alcock, A. (1898). Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The family Xanthidae. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 67(2): 67-233. [details] OpenAccess publication
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Lybia caestifera (Alcock, 1898). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208968 on 2025-05-17
Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Lybia caestifera (Alcock, 1898). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208968 on 2025-05-17
Date
action
by
1997-09-11 16:01:23Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-13 07:19:12Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2010-02-25 16:05:29Z
changed
Davie, Peter
2020-08-17 10:08:47Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-04-04 18:41:20Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy

original description (of Melia caestifer Alcock, 1898) Alcock, A. (1898). Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The family Xanthidae. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 67(2): 67-233. [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Bouvier, E.L. (1915). Decapodes marcheurs (Reptantia) et Stomatopodes recueillis a l'ile Maurice par M. Paul Carie. Bull. Scient. Fr. Belg. 3 (48): 178-318. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Serène, R. (1984). Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures de l'Ocean Indien et de la Mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. <em>Editions Orstom. Collection Faune Tropicale.</em> 24: 1-243. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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
 
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Melia caestifer Alcock, 1898)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) 
To ITIS