Johngarthia

Johngarthia is a genus of crabs in the land crab family Gecarcinidae, formerly included in the genus Gecarcinus, and containing the following five species:[Note 1]

Image	Name	Distribution
	Johngarthia cocoensis Perger, Vargas & Wall, 2011	eastern Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island off Costa Rica[3]
	Johngarthia lagostoma (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)	southern Atlantic Ocean: Ascension Island, Ilha Trindade, Fernando de Noronha & Atol das Rocas
	Johngarthia malpilensis (Faxon, 1893)	eastern Pacific Ocean: Malpelo Island
	Johngarthia planata (Clipperton crab) (Stimpson, 1860)	eastern Pacific Ocean: Gulf of California, Revillagigedo Islands, Costa Rica (Colorada, Cano and Nairita Islands), Colombia (Gorgona Island) & continental mainland beaches of Mexico (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colima, Nayarit, Jalisco and Sinaloa)[4]
	Johngarthia weileri (Sendler, 1912)	eastern Atlantic Ocean: coast of Cameroon and islands of the Gulf of Guinea
	Johngarthia oceanica Perger 2019	eastern Pacific Ocean: Socorro Island, Clipperton Island[5]

Johngarthia
Johngarthia lagostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Gecarcinidae
Genus:	Johngarthia Türkay, 1970
Type species
Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson, 1860

Notes

1. Nomenclature follows Ng et al. (2008).[1] Distributions are from Bouchard & Poupin (2009).[2]

References

1. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
2. Jean-Marie Bouchard & Joseph Poupin (2009). "Éléments d'écologie et nouveau recensement de la population du crabe terrestre Gecarcinus planatus Stimpson,1860 (Decapoda: Brachyura)". In Loïc Charpy (ed.). Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d'un microcosme océanique (PDF). Patrimoines naturels (in French). 68. MNHN / IRD. pp. 333–345. ISBN 978-2-85653-612-4.
3. Robert Perger, Rita Vargas & Adam Wall (2011). "Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 2911: 57–68.
4. Robert Perger, Jorge Cortes & Cristian Pacheco (2013). "Closing a distributional gap of over 3000 km and encountering an invisible barrier: new presence/absence data for Johngarthia planata Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) for Central America and biogeographic notes on East Pacific Gecarcinidae". Crustaceana. 86 (3): 268–277. doi:10.1163/15685403-00003172.
5. Perger, Robert (April 2019). "A New Species of Johngarthia from Clipperton and Socorro Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)". Pacific Science. 73 (2): 285–304. doi:10.2984/73.2.9. ISSN 0030-8870.

5. Robert Perger "A New Species of Johngarthia from Clipperton and Socorro Islands in the

Eastern Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)," Pacific Science 73(2), (12 April 2019).

https://doi.org/10.2984/73.2.9