Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Section Eubrachyura > Subsection Thoracotremata > Superfamily Grapsoidea > Family Plagusiidae

Plagusia Latreille, 1804

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Plagusia depressa (Fabricius, 1775)
Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: ショウジンガニ属

Literature

original description

Latreille, P.A. (1804). Tableau méthodique des crustacés. Classe septième. Crustacés (1), Crustacea. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Appliquée aux Arts, Principalement à l'Agriculture et à l'Economie Rurale et Domestique: par une Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs: avec des figures tirées des trois Règnes de la Nature. 24: 123-127.

basis of record

Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292

additional source

Hartnoll, R.G. (1975). The Grapsidae and Ocypodidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Tanzania. J. Zool. London 177, 305-328

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Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Plagusia Latreille, 1804. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106967

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2022-09-05 by Christopher B. Boyko

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