AfReMaS taxon details
Calocarcinus africanus Calman, 1909
211051 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211051)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Calman, W.T. (1909). On a new crab taken from a deep-sea telegraph-cable in the Indian Ocean. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8.</em> 3(13): 30-33. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Calocarcinus africanus Calman, 1909. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211051 on 2025-04-26
Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Calocarcinus africanus Calman, 1909. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211051 on 2025-04-26
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Calman, W.T. (1909). On a new crab taken from a deep-sea telegraph-cable in the Indian Ocean. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8.</em> 3(13): 30-33. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Serène, R. (1984). Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures de l'Ocean Indien et de la Mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. <em>Editions Orstom. Collection Faune Tropicale.</em> 24: 1-243. [details] Available for editors
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Ng, P. K. L., Ahyong, S. T. & Castro, P. (2023). Re-appraisal of the families and subfamilies of Trapezioidea Miers, 1886, with establishment of a new family, Ectaesthesiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 71: 606–631., available online at https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2023-0047 [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Serène, R. (1984). Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures de l'Ocean Indien et de la Mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. <em>Editions Orstom. Collection Faune Tropicale.</em> 24: 1-243. [details] Available for editors
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Ng, P. K. L., Ahyong, S. T. & Castro, P. (2023). Re-appraisal of the families and subfamilies of Trapezioidea Miers, 1886, with establishment of a new family, Ectaesthesiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 71: 606–631., available online at https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2023-0047 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
