WoRMS name details

Melia caestifer Alcock, 1898

210173  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210173)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Brachyura (Infraorder)
  12. Eubrachyura (Section)
  13. Heterotremata (Subsection)
  14. Xanthoidea (Superfamily)
  15. Xanthidae (Family)
  16. Melia (Genus)
  17. Melia caestifer (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Alcock, A. (1898). Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The family Xanthidae. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 67(2): 67-233. [details] OpenAccess publication
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Melia caestifer Alcock, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210173 on 2025-04-08
Date
action
by
1997-09-11 16:01:23Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2014-09-15 11:57:48Z
changed
Ng, Peter
2020-08-17 10:08:47Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-04-04 18:41:20Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy

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Nomenclature

original description Alcock, A. (1898). Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The family Xanthidae. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 67(2): 67-233. [details] OpenAccess publication

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Bouvier, E.L. (1915). Decapodes marcheurs (Reptantia) et Stomatopodes recueillis a l'ile Maurice par M. Paul Carie. Bull. Scient. Fr. Belg. 3 (48): 178-318. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Synonymy See remarks with genus [details]
LanguageName 
Japanese ヒメキンチャクガニ  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 

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