WoRMS taxon details
Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 208814
AphiaID: 208814
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Portunoidea (Superfamily) > Portunidae (Family) > Portuninae (Subfamily) > Scylla (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Scylla De Haan, 1833 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Achelous crassimanus MacLeay, 1838 Cancer serrata Forskål, 1775 Lupa lobifrons H. Milne Edwards, 1834 Scylla tranquebarica var. oceanica Dana, 1852 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Crosnier, A. (1962). Faune de Madagascar. XVI Crustaces Decapodes: Portunidae. [details] additional source: Webber, W.R.; Ahyong.S. (2009). Decapoda (Crustacea). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Indo-Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Malindi [details] Mauritius [details] Mayotte Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mida Creek [details] Mozambique [details] Mtwapa [details] Natal [details] New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Réunion Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychelles [details] Shimoni [details] South Africa [details] South Mozambique [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] Wallis and Futuna Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Western Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (156 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (290 nucleotides; 193 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Habitat: Encountered in mangrove vegetation. Fairly common in unexploited creeks. Heavily collected for food almost excusively for tourists <82>. Distribution: extends to Tahiti, including Australia and New Zealand <420>. [details] Publication date: Date of authority given as 1775 in Serene, 1977 <479>. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208814 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208814 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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