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 Plagusiidae > Genus Plagusia

Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Plagusia*	Latreille, 1804	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Plagusia tuberculata*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: scaly rock crab

Literature

basis of record	ITIS database
additional source	Webber, W.R.; Fenwick, G.D.; Bradford-Grieve, J.M.; Eagar S.G.; Buckeridge, J.S.; Poore, G.C.B.; Dawson, E.W.; Watling, L.; Jones, J.B.; Wells, J.B.J.; Bruce, N.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Larsen, K.; Chapman, M.A.; Olesen, J.; Ho, J.; Green, J.D.; Shiel, R.J.; Rocha, C.E.F.; Lörz, A.; Bird, G.J.; Charleston, W.A. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (7 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (71 publications)
Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
GBIF

Citation

Davie, P. (2014). Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790). 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:395028