African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Simocarcinus Miers, 1879

AphiaID

205365 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205365)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Epialtinae MacLeay, 1838

Original name

Simocarcinus Miers, 1879

Synonymised names

Trigonothir Miers, 1879 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Simocarcinus camelus Klunzinger, 1906
Species Simocarcinus depressus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1862)
Species Simocarcinus pyramidatus (Heller, 1861)
Species Simocarcinus simplex (Dana, 1851)

Environment

marine

Original description

Miers, E.J. (1879). Descriptions of new or little-known species of maioid Crustacea (Oxyrhyncha) in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5. 4(19): 1-28, pls. IV-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937908679780 [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Simocarcinus Miers, 1879. 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://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205365 on 2026-07-09

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Simocarcinus Miers, 1879. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205365 on 2026-07-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-09-11 16:01:23Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-12-16 08:58:17Z

checked

Davie, Peter

2020-04-28 13:20:46Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

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original description Miers, E.J. (1879). Descriptions of new or little-known species of maioid Crustacea (Oxyrhyncha) in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5. 4(19): 1-28, pls. IV-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937908679780 [details]

original description (of Trigonothir Miers, 1879) Miers, E.J. (1879). Descriptions of new or little-known species of maioid Crustacea (Oxyrhyncha) in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5. 4(19): 1-28, pls. IV-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937908679780 [details]

basis of record 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

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Trigonothir Miers, 1879)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Simocarcinus)
To Genbank
To ITIS