Aratus pisonii

Aratus pisonii
Aratus pisonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Sesarmidae
Genus: Aratus
H. Milne-Edwards, 1853
Species: A. pisonii
Binomial name
Aratus pisonii
(H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) [1]
Synonyms [2]

Sesarma pisonii H. Milne-Edwards, 1837

Aratus pisonii, commonly known as the mangrove tree crab, is a species of crab which lives in mangrove trees in tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas, from Florida to Brazil on the Atlantic coast, and from Nicaragua to Peru on the Pacific coast.[3] It feeds mostly on the leaves of the mangroves, but is an omnivore, and prefers animal matter when possible.[4] A. pisonii is the only species in the monotypic genus Aratus.[2] The specific epithet pisonii commemorates the Dutch naturalist Willem Piso who travelled in Brazil in 1638 with Georg Marggraf.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Aratus pisonii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=99062. 
  2. ^ a b 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. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 
  3. ^ Maria Helena de Arruda Leme & Maria Lucia Negreiros-Fransozo (1998). "Reproductive patterns of Aratus pisonii (Decapoda: Grapsidae) from an estuarine area of São Paulo Northern Coast, Brazil". Revista de Biología Tropical 46 (3): 673–678. http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77441998000300021&lng=es&nrm=iso. 
  4. ^ Amy A. Erickson, Ilka C. Feller, Valerie J. Paul, Lisa M. Kwiatkowski & Woody Lee (2008). "Selection of an omnivorous diet by the mangrove tree crab Aratus pisonii in laboratory experiments". Journal of Sea Research 59 (1–2): 59–69. doi:10.1016/j.seares.2007.06.007. 
  5. ^ Henri Milne-Edwards (1837). Histoire naturelle des crustacés: comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. 2. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de Roret. pp. 76. http://www.archive.org/details/histoirenaturell02miln. 


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