Checklist for Class Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 (Higher Crustaceans)
and region Taita-Taveta County (Coast Province, Kenya)
List of families for Taita-Taveta County
22 Families width 29 Species #OACGDIMPESV
| Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 | Fiddler crabs | 4 | Species | Taxom | | Axiidae Huxley, 1879 | Lobster shrimps | 0 | Species | Taxom | | Coenobitidae Dana, 1851 | Land hermit crabs | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Calappidae Milne-Edwards, 1837 | Box Crab | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Callianassidae (Dana, 1852) | Burrowing Ghost Shrimps | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 | Land crabs | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Diogenidae Ortmann, 1892 | Left-handed hermit crabs | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Gnathiidae Leach, 1814 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Grapsidae MacLeay, 1838 | Marsh crabs | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Idoteidae (Samouelle, 1819) | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Macrophthalmidae Dana, 1851 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Penaeidae Rafinesque, 1815 | Penaeid shrimps | 0 | Species | Taxom | | Eubelidae Taiti, Ferra..., 2000 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Sesarmidae Dana, 1851 | | 4 | Species | Taxom | | Pinnotheridae De Haan, 1833 | Commensal Crabs | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Odontodactylidae Manning, 1980 | Odontodactylid mantis shrimps | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815 | Palaemonid Shrimps | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Porcellanidae Haworth, 1825 | Porcelain crab | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Potamonautidae Bott, 1970 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Varunidae H. Milne-Edw..., 1853 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Melitidae Bousfield, 1973 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815 | Swimming Crab | 1 | Species | Taxom |
Genera for Taita-Taveta County
28 Genera with 29 Species #ABCDGIMNOPQST
| Austruca Bott, 1837 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | Axiopsis Borradaile, 1903 | | 0 | Species | Taxom | | Birgus Leach, 1767 | coconut crab | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Calappa Weber, 1758 | Box crabs | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Callianassa Leach, 1905 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Cardisoma Latreille, 1796 | giant land crabs | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Clibanarius Dana, 1849 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Cranuca Beinlich & V..., 1874 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Dardanus Paulson, 1804 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Gelasimus Latreille, 1877 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Gnathia Leach, 1994 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Grapsus Lamarck, 1758 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Idotea Fabricius, 1802 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Macrophthalmus Desmarest, 1830 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | Metapenaeopsis Bouvier, 1905 | Velvet shrimps | 0 | Species | Taxom | | Microcercus Budde-Lund, 1873 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Neosarmatium Serène & Soh, 1887 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Nepinnotheres Manning, 1758 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Odontodactylus Bigelow, 1758 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Palaemon Weber, 0 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Parasesarma De Man, 1869 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Petrolisthes Stimpson, 1984 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Potamonautes MacLeay, 1868 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Pseudohelice Sakai, Türka..., 1851 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Quadrimaera Krapp-Schick..., 1938 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Scylla De Haan, 1775 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Sesarma Say, 0 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Tubuca Bott, 1852 | | 1 | Species | Taxom |
Species list for Taita-Taveta County
29 Species | Austruca annulipes H. Milne Edw..., 1837 | Fiddler Crab | | Birgus latro Linnaeus, 1767 | Coconut Crab | | Calappa hepatica Linnaeus, 1758 | Long-eyed Box Crab | | Callianassa (Cheramus) joculatrix (De Man, 1905) | ⇒ Trypaea joculatrix De Man, 1905 | | Cardisoma carnifex Herbst, 1796 | Brown land crab | | Clibanarius longitarsus De Haan, 1849 | Blue-striped Hermit Crab | | Cranuca inversa Hoffmann, 1874 | Inversed Fiddler Crab | | Dardanus megistos Herbst, 1804 | Spotted Hermit Crab | | Gelasimus tetragonon (Kossmann, 1877) | ⇒ Uca tetragonon Herbst, 1790 | | Gnathia camponotus Cohen & Poore, 1994 | | | Gnathia odontomachus Cohen & Poore, 1994 | | | Grapsus albolineatus Lamarck, 1818 | Mottled lightfoot crab | | Grapsus grapsus Linnaeus, 1758 | Abuete negro | | Idotea metallica (Bosc, 1802) | ⇒ Idotea ostroumovi Sowinsky, 1895 | | Macrophthalmus (Mareotis) depressus Rüppell, 1830 | Long Eyestalk Crab | | Microcercus anomalus Gerstaecker, 1873 | | | Neosarmatium meinerti (De Man, 1887) | ⇒ Neosarmatium africanum Ragionieri, ..., 2012 | | Nepinnotheres pinnotheres Linnaeus, 1758 | | | Odontodactylus scyllarus Linnaeus, 1758 | Clown mantis shrimp | | Palaemon (Eupalaemon) macrobrachium | | | Parasesarma bidens De Haan, 1835 | | | Parasesarma guttatum A Milne-Edwards, 1869 | | | Petrolisthes borradailei Kropp, 1984 | | | Potamonautes obesus A. Milne-Edw..., 1868 | Obese Crab | | Pseudohelice subquadrata Dana, 1851 | | | Quadrimaera serrata Schellenberg, 1938 | | | Scylla serrata Forsskål, 1775 | Black crab | | Sesarma quadrilaterum | | | Tubuca urvillei H. Milne Edw..., 1852 | |
Subnodes of Malacostraca with occurrences in Taita-Taveta County
Links, sources and further information Malacostraca at artfakta.se
Malacostraca at biodiversity.org.au
Malacostraca at dyntaxa.se
Malacostraca at gbif.org
Malacostraca at irmng.org
Malacostraca at itis.gov
Malacostraca at marinespecies.org
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