Johngarthia Explained
Johngarthia is a genus of crabs in the land crab family Gecarcinidae, formerly included in the genus Gecarcinus, and containing six species. The genus bears the name of John S. Garth, a 20th century naturalist who specialized in crabs and other arthropods.[1]
| Image | Name | Distribution |
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| Johngarthia cocoensis Perger, Vargas & Wall, 2011 | Eastern Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island off Costa Rica[2] |
| Johngarthia lagostoma (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) | Southern Atlantic Ocean: Ascension Island, Ilha Trindade, Fernando de Noronha, and Atol das Rocas[3] |
| Johngarthia malpilensis (Faxon, 1893) | Eastern Pacific Ocean: Malpelo Island[4] |
| Johngarthia oceanica Perger, 2019
(Clipperton crab) | Eastern Pacific Ocean: Clipperton Island, Socorro Island (Revillagigedo Islands)[5] |
| Johngarthia planata (Stimpson, 1860) | Eastern Pacific Ocean: Gulf of California, Costa Rica (Colorada, Cano and Nairita Islands), Colombia (Gorgona Island), and continental mainland beaches of Mexico (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colima, Nayarit, Jalisco and Sinaloa)[6] |
| Johngarthia weileri (Sendler, 1912) | Eastern Atlantic Ocean: coast of Cameroon and islands of the Gulf of Guinea[7] |
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Notes and References
- News: Gershick . Zsa Zsa . 1994-01-10 . USC Biologist, Explorer John Garth Dies . en-US . USC News . 2023-04-13.
- Perger . Robert . Vargas . Rita . Wall . Adam . amp . 2011 . Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica . . 2911 . 57–68. 10.11646/zootaxa.2911.1.4 .
- Book: Milne-Edwards, Henri . Henri Milne-Edwards . 1837 . Histoire naturelle des crustacés: comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Tome deuxième . Natural history of crustaceans: including the anatomy, physiology and classification of these animals. Second volume . Tribu des gécarciniens . 2 . 27 . Paris . Librairie encyclopédique de Roret . fr .
- Faxon . Walter . 1893 . Preliminary Descriptions of New Species of Crustacea: Gecarcinus malpilensis, sp. nov. . Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts . XXIV . 157–158 . 2023-04-13.
- Perger. Robert. April 2019. A New Species of Johngarthia from Clipperton and Socorro Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae). Pacific Science. 73. 2. 285–304. 10.2984/73.2.9. 146030476 . 0030-8870.
- Perger . Robert . Cortes . Jorge . Pacheco . Cristian . amp . 2013 . Closing a distributional gap of over 3000 km and encountering an invisible barrier: new presence/absence data for Johngarthia planata Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) for Central America and biogeographic notes on East Pacific Gecarcinidae . . 86 . 3 . 268–277 . 10.1163/15685403-00003172.
- Sendler . Alexander . 1912 . Zehnfusskrebse aus dem Wiesbadener Naturhistorischen Museum . Decapod crabs from the Natural History Museum in Wiesbaden . Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde . de . 65 . 191–194 . 2023-04-13.
