DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

WoRMS name details

Maja (Maja)

AphiaID

870216 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:870216)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (new status)

Accepted Name

Maja Lamarck, 1801

Rank

Subgenus

Parent

Maja Lamarck, 1801

Original name

Maja Lamarck, 1801

Direct children (1)

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Species Maja (Maja) spinigera De Haan, 1837 accepted as Paramaya spinigera (De Haan, 1837) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Maja Lamarck, 1801) Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
page(s): 154 [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Maja (Maja). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870216 on 2025-04-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-02-15 08:53:12Z

created

Ng, Peter

2022-09-17 23:42:02Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Sources (1)

Nomenclature

original description (of Maja Lamarck, 1801) Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
page(s): 154 [details]