Decanet name details
Melia caestifer Alcock, 1898
210173 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210173)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Melia Berthold, 1827 accepted as Lybia H. Milne Edwards, 1834
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Melia caestifer Alcock, 1898. Accessed at: https://www.decanet.info/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210173 on 2025-05-18
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original description
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]
source of synonymy 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]
source of synonymy 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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Synonymy See remarks with genus [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ヒメキンチャクガニ | [details] |