Gecarcinus

Gecarcinus est typus generis Gecarcinidarum, familiae cancrorum terrestrium. Species inveniuntur in calidioribus Americarum regionibus litoralibus, inter quae sunt insulae in Mari Caribaeo sitae. Quattuor species in insulis Pacificis endemicae in Gecarcinos ut subgenus Johngarthia olim comprehensae sunt, sed nunc genus separatum, Johngarthia, habentur.^[1] Cum omnes species huius generis plerumque sunt terrestriales, ad mare redire debent ad regenerandum (larvae solum in aqua salsa pariuntur). Eis saepe sunt colores vividi, quorum praevalentes sunt ruber, aurantius, purpureus, flavus, albus, niger. Qua pro causa nonnullae species, insigniter Gecarcinus quadratus et Gecarcinus lateralis, animalia dilecta populo gratae sunt.

Gecarcinus quadratus

Animalia — Arthropoda

Subphylum : Crustacea
Classis : Malacostraca
Ordo : Decapoda
Infraordo : Brachyura
Familia : Gecarcinidae
Genus : Gecarcinus
Leach, 1814

Species typica

Cancer ruricola Linnaeus, 1758

Species

↑ Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot, et Peter J. F. Davie (2008), "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world," Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17:1–286. PDF.

Bright, D., et C. Hogue. 1972. A synopsis of burrowing land crabs of the World and list of their arthropod symbionts and burrow associates. Contributions in Science PDF.
Ng, P., et D. Guinot. 2001. On the land crabs of the genus Discoplax A. Milne Edwards, 1867 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new cavernicolous species from the Philippines. Raffles Bull. Zool. 49:311–338.
Türkay, M. 1970. Die Gercarcinidae Amerikas. Mit einem Anhang uber Ucides Rathbun (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenberg. Biol. 51:333-354.
Türkay, M. 1987. Landkrabben. Natur Mus. 117:143–150.
Perger, R., et A. Wall. 2014 The description of a new species of the Neotropical land crab genus Gecarcinus Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae). ZooKeys 435:93–109. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.435.7271.

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Gecarcinum spectant.

Vide "Gecarcinum" apud Vicispecies.