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

PlanesBowdich, 1825accepted 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

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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

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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