Family Sesarmidae (Dana, 1851) – Mangrovenkrabben / Mangrove Crabs

Type species: Sesarma moeschii De Man, 1892, by present designation. Gender neuter. Etymology:…Etymology. The name is derived by combining the name of the carcinologist Johannes Govertus de Man (1850–1930) with the genus name Sesarma. This honours the substantial contributions he has made to our knowledge of sesarmid diversity in the Indo-West Pacific. The gender is neuter.

Included species:
Sesarma moeschii De Man, 1892
Sesarma johorensis Tweedie, 1940.

See: Schubart C.D. & P.K.L. Ng (2020): Revision of the intertidal and semiterrestrial crab genera Chiromantes Gistel, 1848, and Pseudosesarma Serène & Soh, 1970 Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), using morphology and molecular phylogenetics, with the establishment of nine new genera and two new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68: 891-994.

Manarma moeschii (De Man, 1892)

52 photos
494 photos in 19 sub-albums

Manarma moeschii (De Man, 1892)

dt. Rote Mangrovenkrabbe / Red claw crab

Sesarma intermedia – De Man, 1888: 182. [not Grapsus (Pachysoma) intermedius De Haan, 1835]
Sesarma moeschii De Man, 1892: 331, pl. 20 fig. 14; Tweedie, 1940: 92, fig. 3, pl. 24-1
Sesarma intermedium – Alcock, 1900: 416. [not Grapsus (Pachysoma) intermedius De Haan, 1835]
Sesarma (Sesarma) moeschii – Tesch, 1917: 177
Sesarma (Sesarma) moeschi – Serène, 1968: 105
Pseudosesarma moeschi – Naiyanetr, 1998: 102; Naiyanetr, 2007: 116; Rademacher & Mengedoht, 2011: 28; Ribero, 2020: 3, 6
“Pseudosesarma” moeschi – Ng et al., 2008a: 220
Pseudosesarma crassimanum – Li et al., 2020

Verbreitung / Distribution: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Sulawesi