Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Sculptured Mud Crab
Description
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Family Xanthidae
Anterior margin of carapace, between the eyes, without teeth, but generally with a slight notch ; anterolateral margins of carapace with 3 or more blunt teeth; abdomen of male with 4 segments plus telson.
Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -2,277 meters (0 to -7,470 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
()
- (Chernyshev, 1960)
- Superclass:
Crustacea
()
- Pennant, 1777
- Crustaceans
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
()
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
()
- Grobben, 1892
- Superorder:
Eucarida
()
- Calman, 1904
- Order:
Decapoda
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Decapods
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
()
- Burkenroad, 1963
- Infraorder:
Brachyura
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Superfamily:
Xanthoidea
()
- MacLeay, 1838
- Family:
Xanthidae
()
- MacLeay, 1838
- crabes de boue, mud crabs, pebble crabs, rubble crabs, xanthidés
- Genus:
Micropanope
()
- Specific name:
sculptipes
- Stimpson, 1871
- Scientific name: - Micropanope sculptipes Stimpson, 1871
- Specific name:
sculptipes
- Stimpson, 1871
- Genus:
Micropanope
(
- Family:
Xanthidae
(
- Superfamily:
Xanthoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Brachyura
(
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
(
- Order:
Decapoda
(
- Superorder:
Eucarida
(
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
(
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
(
- Superclass:
Crustacea
(
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Stimpson, William Notes
on North American Crustacea,
in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. III Annals
of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, vol.
10, nos. 4-5,
1871.
Last scrutiny: 02-Feb-2005
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Micropanope
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. lobifrons (Lobefront Mud Crab) · M. nuttingi (Beaded Mud Crab) · M. pusilla (Puffy Mud Crab) · M. sculptipes (Sculptured Mud Crab) · M. urinator (Thorny Mud Crab)
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Further Reading
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- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , , p. 331, p. 428, p. 585.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url , .
- Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url , , , , p. 487, p. 488, p. 489, p. 490, p. 491, p. 493, p. 495, p. 496, p. 497, p. 498, p. 499, p. 500, p. 501, p. 502, p. 503, p. 504, p. 505.
- Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 193.
- Official lists and indexes of names and works in zoology / edited by R.V. Melville and J.D.D. Smith. London: ICZN, 1987. url p. 126.
- Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. London, Printed by order of the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url p. 17, p. 36, p. 459.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 1273, p. 138, p. 140, p. 546, p. 547.
- Smithsonian year: annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ended Sept. 30. .. 1981 City of Washington: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1980-2001. url p. 400.
- Studies in natural history. Iowa City, Ia. url p. 272.
- The stalk-eyed Crustacea of British Guiana, West Indies, and Bermuda; by Charles G. Young. London, J. M. Watkins, 1900. url p. 139.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2707784
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-98799
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 98799
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 523689
Footnotes
- Mean = -152.450 meters (-500.164 feet), Standard Deviation = 359.520 based on 77 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
