Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Kingdom Eubrachyura > Kingdom Thoracotremata > Superfamily Grapsoidea > Family Varunidae > Subfamily Varuninae > Genus Hemigrapsus

Hemigrapsus takanoi Asakura & Watanabe, 2005

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hemigrapsus*	Dana, 1851	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: penseelkrabbetje sources: Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.

English: brush-clawed shore crab; japanese crab sources: Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.

French: crabe à pinceaux; crabe japonaise

Literature

original description	Asakura & Watanabe. 2005. Hemigrapsus takanoi, new species, a sibling species of the common Japanese intertidal crab H. penicillatus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsoidea). Journal of Crustacean Biology 25(2) : 279-292
basis of record	Bouchet, P.; Fontaine, B. (2009). List of new marine species described between 2002-2006. Census of Marine Life.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
GBIF

Citation

Ng, P. (2014). Hemigrapsus takanoi Asakura & Watanabe, 2005. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:389288