Johngarthia is a genus of crabs in the land crab family Gecarcinidae, formerly included in the genus Gecarcinus, and containing six species.[Note 1] The genus bears the name of John S. Garth, a 20th century naturalist who specialized in crabs and other arthropods.[3]

Johngarthia
Johngarthia lagostoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Gecarcinidae
Genus: Johngarthia
Türkay, 1970
Type species
Gecarcinus planatus
Stimpson, 1860
Image Name Distribution
Johngarthia cocoensis Perger, Vargas & Wall, 2011 Eastern Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island off Costa Rica[4]
Johngarthia lagostoma (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) Southern Atlantic Ocean: Ascension Island, Ilha Trindade, Fernando de Noronha, and Atol das Rocas[5]
Johngarthia malpilensis (Faxon, 1893) Eastern Pacific Ocean: Malpelo Island[6]
Johngarthia oceanica Perger, 2019
(Clipperton crab)
Eastern Pacific Ocean: Clipperton Island, Socorro Island (Revillagigedo Islands)[7]
Johngarthia planata (Stimpson, 1860) Eastern Pacific Ocean: Gulf of California, Costa Rica (Colorada, Cano and Nairita Islands), Colombia (Gorgona Island), and continental mainland beaches of Mexico (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colima, Nayarit, Jalisco and Sinaloa)[8]
Johngarthia weileri (Sendler, 1912) Eastern Atlantic Ocean: coast of Cameroon and islands of the Gulf of Guinea[9]

Notes

edit
  1. ^ Nomenclature follows Ng et al. (2008).[1] Distributions are from Bouchard & Poupin (2009).[2]

References

edit
  1. ^ Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle & Davie, Peter J. F. (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  2. ^ Bouchard, Jean-Marie & Poupin, Joseph (2009). "Éléments d'écologie et nouveau recensement de la population du crabe terrestre Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda: Brachyura)" [Elements of ecology and new population census of land crab Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda: Brachyura)]. In Charpy, Loïc (ed.). Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d'un microcosme océanique [Clipperton: Environment and Biodiversity of an Oceanic Microcosm] (PDF). Patrimoines naturels (in French). Vol. 68. Marseille, France: MNHN / Institut de recherche pour le développement. pp. 333–345. ISBN 978-2-85653-612-4. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  3. ^ Gershick, Zsa Zsa (1994-01-10). "USC Biologist, Explorer John Garth Dies". USC News. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  4. ^ Perger, Robert; Vargas, Rita & Wall, Adam (2011). "Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2911: 57–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2911.1.4.
  5. ^ Milne-Edwards, Henri (1837). "Tribu des gécarciniens". Histoire naturelle des crustacés: comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Tome deuxième [Natural history of crustaceans: including the anatomy, physiology and classification of these animals. Second volume] (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de Roret. p. 27.
  6. ^ Faxon, Walter (1893). "Preliminary Descriptions of New Species of Crustacea: Gecarcinus malpilensis, sp. nov". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. XXIV: 157–158. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  7. ^ Perger, Robert (April 2019). "A New Species of Johngarthia from Clipperton and Socorro Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)". Pacific Science. 73 (2): 285–304. doi:10.2984/73.2.9. ISSN 0030-8870. S2CID 146030476.
  8. ^ Perger, Robert; Cortes, Jorge & Pacheco, Cristian (2013). "Closing a distributional gap of over 3000 km and encountering an invisible barrier: new presence/absence data for Johngarthia planata Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) for Central America and biogeographic notes on East Pacific Gecarcinidae". Crustaceana. 86 (3): 268–277. doi:10.1163/15685403-00003172.
  9. ^ Sendler, Alexander (1912). "Zehnfusskrebse aus dem Wiesbadener Naturhistorischen Museum" [Decapod crabs from the Natural History Museum in Wiesbaden] (PDF). Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde (in German). 65: 191–194. Retrieved 2023-04-13.