African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Homarinus capensis (Herbst, 1792)

AfReMaS taxon details

Homarinus capensis (Herbst, 1792)

AphiaID

246318 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246318)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Homarinus Kornfield, Williams & Steneck, 1995

Original name

Cancer (Astacus) capensis Herbst, 1792

Synonymised names

Homarus capensis (Herbst, 1792) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Herbst, J. F. W. (1791-1796). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten. Zweyter Band. Mit XXV Kupfer-Tafeln und Register. Krebse. Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin und Stralsund, viii + 225 + [1] pp. 25 pls. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Cape of Good Hope

type locality contained in Cape of Good Hope [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Homarinus capensis (Herbst, 1792). 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=246318 on 2026-10-15

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. Homarinus capensis (Herbst, 1792). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246318 on 2026-10-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-09-11 11:50:17Z

created

Vandepitte, Leen

2009-02-23 14:08:32Z

changed

Chan, Tin-Yam

2021-11-29 09:26:18Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

2022-04-14 13:27:59Z

changed

Ahyong, Shane

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original description (of ) Herbst, J. F. W. (1791-1796). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten. Zweyter Band. Mit XXV Kupfer-Tafeln und Register. Krebse. Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin und Stralsund, viii + 225 + [1] pp. 25 pls. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) (from synonym Homarus capensis (Herbst, 1792))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Homarinus capensis)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Homarus capensis (Herbst, 1792))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records)
To ITIS