Geosesarma

<i>Geosesarma</i>

Geosesarma

Genus of crabs

Geosesarma is genus of small freshwater or terrestrial crabs, typically less than 10 mm (0.4 in) across the carapace.[2] They live and reproduce on land with the larval stages inside the egg. They are found from India,[3] through Southeast Asia, to the Solomon Islands and Hawaii.[2]

Quick Facts Geosesarma, Scientific classification ...

In the pet trade, they are sometimes called vampire crabs. This has nothing to do with their feeding habits, but rather with the bright, contrastingly yellow eyes of some Geosesarma species.[4]

Species

Geosesarma contains these species:[1]

  • Geosesarma aedituens Naruse & Jaafar, 2009
  • Geosesarma albomita Yeo & Ng, 1999
  • Geosesarma amphinome (De Man, 1899)
  • Geosesarma angustifrons (A. Milne-Edwards, 1869)
  • Geosesarma araneum (Nobili, 1899)
  • Geosesarma aurantium Ng, 1995
  • Geosesarma bau Ng & Jongkar, 2004
  • Geosesarma bicolor Ng & Davie, 1995
  • Geosesarma bintan T. M. Leong, 2014
  • Geosesarma cataracta Ng, 1986
  • Geosesarma celebense (Schenkel, 1902)
  • Geosesarma clavicrure (Schenkel, 1902)
  • Geosesarma confertum (Ortmann, 1894)
  • Geosesarma danumense Ng, 2003
  • Geosesarma dennerle Ng, Schubart & Lukhaup, 2015
  • Geosesarma foxi (Kemp, 1918)
  • Geosesarma gordonae (Serène, 1968)
  • Geosesarma gracillimum (De Man, 1902)
  • Geosesarma hagen Ng, Schubart & Lukhaup, 2015
  • Geosesarma hednon Ng, Liu & Schubart, 2003
  • Geosesarma ianthina Pretzmann, 1985
  • Geosesarma insulare Ng, 1986
  • Geosesarma johnsoni (Serène, 1968)
  • Geosesarma katibas Ng, 1995
  • Geosesarma krathing Ng & Naiyanetr, 1992
  • Geosesarma larsi Ng & Grinang, 2018
  • Geosesarma lawrencei Manuel-Santos & Yeo, 2007
  • Geosesarma leprosum (Schenkel, 1902)
  • Geosesarma maculatum (De Man, 1892)
  • Geosesarma malayanum Ng & Lim, 1986
  • Geosesarma nannophyes (De Man, 1885)
  • Geosesarma nemesis Ng, 1986
  • Geosesarma noduliferum (De Man, 1892)
  • Geosesarma notophorum Ng & C. G. S. Tan, 1995
  • Geosesarma ocypodum (Nobili, 1899)
  • Geosesarma penangense (Tweedie, 1940)
  • Geosesarma peraccae (Nobili, 1903)
  • Geosesarma protos Ng & Takeda, 1992
  • Geosesarma rathbunae (Serène, 1968)
  • Geosesarma rouxi (Serène, 1968)
  • Geosesarma sabanum Ng, 1992
  • Geosesarma sarawakense (Serène, 1968)
  • Geosesarma scandens Ng, 1986
  • Geosesarma serenei Ng, 1986
  • Geosesarma solomonense (Serène, 1968)
  • Geosesarma starmuhlneri Pretzmann, 1984
  • Geosesarma sumatraense Ng, 1986
  • Geosesarma sylvicola (De Man, 1892)
  • Geosesarma ternatense (Serène, 1968)
  • Geosesarma teschi Ng, 1986
  • Geosesarma thelxinoe (De Man, 1908)
  • Geosesarma tiomanicum Ng, 1986
  • Geosesarma vicentense (Rathbun, 1914)

As of March 2015, professor Peter Ng of National University of Singapore has named 20 Geosesarma species, and he "has another half a dozen or so newly collected Geosesarma species from Southeast Asia in his lab, and these species still need to be named and described."[4][5]

Threats

Geosesarma dennerle and Geosesarma hagen, both originally from Java, are threatened by illegal overcollection for the aquarium trade.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Peter Davie (2012). "Geosesarma de Man, 1892". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  2. [2]
    Hartnoll, Richard G. (1998). "Evolution, systematics, and geographical distribution". In Warren W. Burggren; Brian R. McMahon (eds.). Biology of the Land Crabs. Cambridge University Press. pp. 6–54. ISBN 9780521306904.
  3. [3]
    Pati, S. K.; Dev Roy, M. K.; Sharma, R. M. "Freshwater crabs" (PDF). Checklist of Indian fauna. Zoological Survey of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 17, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  4. [4]
    Blaszczak-Boxe, Agata (March 19, 2015). "Mystery of the 'Vampire Crabs' Solved". livescience.com.
  5. [5]
    Blaszczak-Boxe, Agata (19 March 2015). "Mystery of the 'Vampire Crabs' Solved". LiveScience. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  6. [6]
    Mahbu, Amri (March 23, 2015). "New Species of Javan Vampire Crabs Face Potential Exploitation".
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