Grapsoidea

Sesarma sp., copyright Rodrigo Borçato.

Belongs within: Brachyura.
Contains: Grapsinae, Varuninae.

The Grapsoidea is a diverse group of crabs including both terrestrial and aquatic taxa, with the highest diversity in the marine intertidal and supratidal zones.

<==Grapsoidea
    |--Grapsidae CH03
    |    |--Grapsinae SCF02
    |    `--Varuninae CH03
    |--Glyptograpsidae SCF02
    |    |--Platychirograpsus spectabilis de Man 1896 (see below for synonymy) SCF02
    |    `--Glyptograpsus SCF02
    |         |--G. impressus Smith 1870 [incl. G. spinipes Cano 1889] SCF02
    |         `--G. jamaicensis (Benedict 1892) [=Areograpsus jamaicensis] SCF02
    |--Gecarcinidae SCF02
    |    |--Cardisoma Latreille 1825 SCF02, B55
    |    |    |--C. crassum Smith 1870 B55
    |    |    `--C. guanhumi Latreille 1825 H86
    |    |--Gecarcinus Leach 1814 B55
    |    |    |--G. lateralis (de Fréminville 1835) SCF02 [=Ocypoda lateralis B55; incl. G. quadratus Saussure 1853 B55]
    |    |    `--G. ruricola (Linnaeus 1758) H86
    |    `--Ucides Rathbun 1897 B55
    |         |--U. cordatus (Linnaeus 1763) [=Cancer cordatus] B55
    |         `--U. occidentalis (Ortmann 1897) [=Oedipleura occidentalis] B55
    |--Plagusiidae SCF02
    |    |--Percnon [Percninae] TSH09
    |    |    |--P. abbreviatum (Dana 1851) TSH09
    |    |    |--P. guinotae Crosnier 1965 TSH09
    |    |    `--P. planissimum (Herbst 1804) TSH09
    |    `--Plagusiinae SCF02
    |         |--Euchirograpsus americanus Milne Edwards 1880 SCF02
    |         `--Plagusia SCF02
    |              |--P. chabrus (Linnaeus 1764) (see below for synonymy) B64
    |              |--P. dentipes de Haan 1835 SCF02
    |              `--P. depressa B64
    |                   |--P. d. depressa B64
    |                   `--P. d. tuberculata B64
    `--Sesarmidae [Sesarminae] SCF02
         |--Armases ricordi (Milne Edwards 1853) SCF02
         |--Epigrapsus politus B64
         |--Chiromantes SCF02
         |    |--C. buettikoferi de Man 1883 SCF02
         |    `--C. haematocheir (de Haan 1835) SCF02
         `--Sesarma Say 1817 B55
              |  i. s.: S. bidentatum Benedict 1892 H86
              |         S. catenata B64
              |         S. rectum HN-F08
              |         S. reticulatum (Say 1817) SCF02
              |         S. roberti Milne Edwards 1853 H86
              |         S. smithii F71
              |--S. (Sesarma) sulcatum Smith 1870 [=S. sulcata] B55
              `--S. (Holometopus) B55
                   |--S. (H.) angustum Smith 1870 [=S. angusta] B55
                   |--S. (H.) miersii Rathbun 1897 B55, H86
                   |--S. (H.) occidentalis Smith 1870 [incl. S. (H.) biolleyi Rathbun 1906] B55
                   `--S. (H.) tampicense Rathbun 1914 B55

Plagusia chabrus (Linnaeus 1764) [=Cancer chabrus; incl. P. capensis Balss 1935, Marestia mawsoni Rathbun 1918] B64

Platychirograpsus spectabilis de Man 1896 [incl. P. typicus Rathbun 1914, Areograpsus typicus Krøyer ms] SCF02

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B64] Bennett, E. W. 1964. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Crustacea Brachyura. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 153: 1-120.

[B55] Bott, R. 1955. Dekapoden (Crustacea) aus El Salvador. 2. Litorale Dekapoden, außer Uca. Senckenbergiana Biologica 36: 45-70.

[CH03] Chu, K. H., H. Y. Ho, C. P. Li & T.-Y. Chan. 2003. Molecular phylogenetics of the mitten crab species in Eriocheir, sensu lato (Brachyura: Grapsidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 23 (3): 738-746.

[F71] Fletcher, H. O. 1971. Catalogue of type specimens of fossils in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Australian Museum Memoir 13: 1-167.

[HN-F08] Hirose, G. L., & M. L. Negreiros-Franzoso. 2008. Growth and juvenile development of Uca maracoani Latreille 1802-1803 in laboratory conditions (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 88 (2): 161-168.

[H86] Holthuis, L. B. 1986. Decapoda. In Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) (L. Botosaneanu, ed.) pp. 589-615. E. J. Brill / Dr. W. Backhuys: Leiden.

[SCF02] Schubart, C. D., J. A. Cuesta & D. L. Felder. 2002. Glyptograpsidae, a new brachyuran family from Central America: Larval and adult morphology, and a molecular phylogeny of the Grapsoidea. Journal of Crustacean Biology 22 (1): 28-44.

[TSH09] Titelius, M. A., A. Sampey & C. G. Hass. 2009. Crustaceans of Mermaid (Rowley Shoals), Scott and Seringapatam Reefs, north Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 77: 145-176.