dcsimg

Image of land crabs

Image of land crabs

Description:

Figure 5.Dorsal carapace pattern (shape of light patches could vary slightly): Gecarcinus lateralis (Freminville 1835) (sensu Türkay 1973): A Pacific coast of Central America. Atlantic coast of Central America: B form with lateral margin (M) on dorsal carapace and orange patches at anterolateral (AP) and posterior (PP) carapace border; C form without lateral margin on dorsal carapace D Gecarcinus nobilii sp. n.

Source Information

license
cc-by-3.0
copyright
Robert Perger, Adam Wall
bibliographic citation
Perger R, Wall A (2014) The description of a new species of the Neotropical land crab genus Gecarcinus Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) ZooKeys 435: 93–109
original
original media file
visit source
partner site
Zookeys
ID
zookeys.435.7271.sp_1_p_4