WoRMS taxon details
Arcotheres purpureus (Alcock, 1900)
1264594 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1264594)
accepted
Species
Pinnoteres purpureus Alcock, 1900 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling
Pinnotheres nigrans Rathbun, 1909 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pinnotheres purporeus Alcock, 1900 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Pinnotheres purpureus Alcock, 1900 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Pinnoteres purpureus Alcock, 1900) Alcock, A. (1900). Material for a carcinological Fauna of India. No. 6: the Brachyura Catometopa, or Grapsoidea. <em>Journal on the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 69(2): 279-456., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35612227 [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Arcotheres purpureus (Alcock, 1900). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1264594 on 2025-04-29
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
(of Pinnotheres nigrans Rathbun, 1909) Rathbun, M.J. (1909). New crabs from the Gulf of Siam. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 22: 107-114. [details]
original description (of Pinnoteres purpureus Alcock, 1900) Alcock, A. (1900). Material for a carcinological Fauna of India. No. 6: the Brachyura Catometopa, or Grapsoidea. <em>Journal on the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 69(2): 279-456., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35612227 [details]
original description (of Pinnoteres purpureus Alcock, 1900) Alcock, A. (1900). Material for a carcinological Fauna of India. No. 6: the Brachyura Catometopa, or Grapsoidea. <em>Journal on the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 69(2): 279-456., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35612227 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Ahyong, S.T. & Ng, P.K.L. (2021). The pinnotherid crabs from the Gulf of Siam described by Rathbun (1909) (Decapoda: Brachyura): revisited and revised. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 69: 188–211., available online at https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2021-0016 [details] Available for editors 
[request]
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Pinnotheres purporeus Alcock, 1900)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pinnotheres nigrans Rathbun, 1909)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arcotheres purpureus)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins) (from synonym Pinnotheres nigrans Rathbun, 1909)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins) (from synonym Pinnoteres purpureus Alcock, 1900)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pinnotheres nigrans Rathbun, 1909)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arcotheres purpureus)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins) (from synonym Pinnotheres nigrans Rathbun, 1909)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins) (from synonym Pinnoteres purpureus Alcock, 1900)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins)