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HKRMS name details

Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)

207597  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207597)

  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. Thoracotremata (Subsection)
  14. Ocypodoidea (Superfamily)
  15. Ocypodidae (Family)
  16. Ocypodinae (Subfamily)
  17. Uca (Genus)
  18. Uca (Gelasimus) (Subgenus)
  19. Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2025) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207597 on 2026-06-06
Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2026). Hong Kong Register of Marine Species. Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207597 on 2026-06-06
Date
action
by
1997-02-13 09:54:01Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-01-19 07:57:53Z
changed
Davie, Peter
2017-02-08 15:50:07Z
changed
Davie, Peter
2020-09-02 19:03:26Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-11-21 18:26:21Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (HKRMS) Tam, F. Y. & Wong, Y. S. (1997). Ecological study on mangrove stands in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Submitted to AFCD. [details] 

basis of record Hartnoll, R.G. (1975). The Grapsidae and Ocypodidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Tanzania. J. Zool. London 177, 305-328, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1975.tb02235.x [details] 

additional source Ng, P.K.L.; Guinot, D.; Davie, P.J.F. (2008). Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of the extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. <em>The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 17: 1-286. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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