WoRMS taxon details
Amphithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790)
1258708 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1258708)
accepted
Species
Cancer aculeatus Herbst, 1790 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cancer aculeatus Fabricius, 1793 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cancer spinipes Herbst, 1790 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Mithrax trispinosus Kingsley, 1879 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Cancer aculeatus Herbst, 1790) Herbst, J.F.W. (1782-1790). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten. Erster Band. Mit XXI Kupfer-Tafeln und Register. Krabben. Joh. Casper Fuessly, Zürich / Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin und Stralsund, iv + 274 pp., 21 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64679#/summary [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Amphithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1258708 on 2025-04-18
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cancer aculeatus Fabricius, 1793) Fabricius, J.C. (1793). Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species Adjectis Synonimis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus. [Improved and Enhanced Systematic Entomology. According to the Classes, Orders, Genera, Species Adjacent Synonyms, Localities, Observations, and Descriptions.]. <em>Proft, Christian Gottlob (Kopenhagen) , Hafniae.</em> 2: i-viii + 1-519., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.36532 [details]
original description (of Cancer aculeatus Herbst, 1790) Herbst, J.F.W. (1782-1790). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten. Erster Band. Mit XXI Kupfer-Tafeln und Register. Krabben. Joh. Casper Fuessly, Zürich / Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin und Stralsund, iv + 274 pp., 21 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64679#/summary [details]
original description (of Mithrax trispinosus Kingsley, 1879) Kingsley, J.S. (1879). Notes on North American Decapoda. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 20: 145-160. [details]
original description (of Cancer spinipes Herbst, 1790) Herbst, J.F.W. (1782-1790). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten. Erster Band. Mit XXI Kupfer-Tafeln und Register. Krabben. Joh. Casper Fuessly, Zürich / Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin und Stralsund, iv + 274 pp., 21 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64679#/summary [details]
original description (of Cancer aculeatus Herbst, 1790) Herbst, J.F.W. (1782-1790). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten. Erster Band. Mit XXI Kupfer-Tafeln und Register. Krabben. Joh. Casper Fuessly, Zürich / Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin und Stralsund, iv + 274 pp., 21 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64679#/summary [details]
original description (of Mithrax trispinosus Kingsley, 1879) Kingsley, J.S. (1879). Notes on North American Decapoda. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 20: 145-160. [details]
original description (of Cancer spinipes Herbst, 1790) Herbst, J.F.W. (1782-1790). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten. Erster Band. Mit XXI Kupfer-Tafeln und Register. Krabben. Joh. Casper Fuessly, Zürich / Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin und Stralsund, iv + 274 pp., 21 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64679#/summary [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Parasram, N.; Santana, W.; Vallès, Y.; Windsor, A.М.; Vallès, H. (2024). Morphological and molecular support for <i>Amphithrax verrucosus</i> (H. Milne Edwards, 1832) and <i>Amphithrax aculeatus</i> (Herbst, 1790) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) as valid species. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 100(1): 15-30., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.100.109192 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
To CRUSTA (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Amphithrax aculeatus)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records) (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
To CRUSTA (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Amphithrax aculeatus)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records) (from synonym Mithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790))
