DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

WoRMS name details

Grapsus messor (Forskål, 1775)

AphiaID

1583149 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1583149)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Metopograpsus messor (Forskål, 1775)

Rank

Species

Parent

Grapsus Lamarck, 1801

Original name

Cancer messor Forskål, 1775

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Cancer messor Forskål, 1775) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059 [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Grapsus messor (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1583149 on 2025-04-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2022-05-25 00:31:07Z

created

Boyko, Christopher B.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cancer messor Forskål, 1775) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059 [details]