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 Grapsidae > Genus Planes

Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Planes*	Bowdich, 1825	accepted genus name
*Nautilograpsus*	H. Milne Edwards, 1837	synonym

Species group names

*Cancer minutus*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym
*Nautilograpsus major*	MacLeay, 1838	synonym
*Planes cyaneus*	Dana, 1851	synonym
*Planes major*	(MacLeay, 1838)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Columbus krab; Columbuskrab sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp.

English: Columbus crab; Columbus' crab; Gulf weed crab; Gulfweed crab; Gulf-weed crab; Sargassum crab sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Vannini, M. (1976). Researches on the coast of Somalia. The shore and the Dune of Sar Uanle. 10. Sandy Beach Decapods. Monitore Zoologico Italiano NS Supplemento VIII 10: 255-286

French: crabe menu sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

German: Kolumbuskrabbe

Literature

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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Pohle, G.W. (1990). A guide to decapod Crustacea from the Canadian Atlantic: Anomura and Brachyura. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 1771. 29 p.
additional source	Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Vannini, M. (1976). Researches on the coast of Somalia. The shore and the Dune of Sar Uanle. 10. Sandy Beach Decapods. Monitore Zoologico Italiano NS Supplemento VIII 10: 255-286

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:107462