Johngarthia

Johngarthia
Johngarthia lagostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Gecarcinidae
Genus:	Johngarthia Türkay, 1970
Type species
Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson, 1860

Johngarthia is a genus of crabs in the land crab family Gecarcinidae, formerly included in the genus Gecarcinus, and containing the following five species:^{[Note 1]}

• Johngarthia cocoensis Perger, Vargas & Wall, 2011 – eastern Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island off Costa Rica^[3]
• Johngarthia lagostoma (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) – southern Atlantic Ocean: Ascension Island, Ilha Trindade, Fernando de Noronha & Atol das Rocas
• Johngarthia malpilensis (Faxon, 1893) – eastern Pacific Ocean: Malpelo Island
• Johngarthia planata (Stimpson, 1860) – eastern Pacific Ocean: Gulf of California, Revillagigedo Islands, Clipperton Island, Costa Rica (Colorada, Cano and Nairita Islands), Colombia (Gorgona Island) & continental mainland beaches of Mexico (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colima, Nayarit, Jalisco and Sinaloa)^[4]
• Johngarthia weileri (Sendler, 1912) – eastern Atlantic Ocean: coast of Cameroon and islands of the Gulf of Guinea

Notes

1. Nomenclature follows Ng et al. (2008).^[1] Distributions are from Bouchard & Poupin (2009).^[2]

References

1. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
2. Jean-Marie Bouchard & Joseph Poupin (2009). "Éléments d'écologie et nouveau recensement de la population du crabe terrestre Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson,1860 (Decapoda: Brachyura)". In Loïc Charpy. Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d'un microcosme océanique (PDF). Patrimoines naturels (in French). 68. MNHN / IRD. pp. 333–345. ISBN 978-2-85653-612-4.
3. Robert Perger, Rita Vargas & Adam Wall (2011). "Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 2911: 57–68.
4. Robert Perger, Jorge Cortes & Cristian Pacheco (2013). "Closing a distributional gap of over 3000 km and encountering an invisible barrier: new presence/absence data for Johngarthia planata Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) for Central America and biogeographic notes on East Pacific Gecarcinidae". Crustaceana. 86 (3): 268–277. doi:10.1163/15685403-00003172.