Planes minutus

Tags: Crustacean.

Planes minutus is a species of pelagic crab that lives in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is typically less than 10 mm (0.4 in) long across the back and is variable in colouration to match its background. It may have been the crab seen by Christopher Columbus on Sargassum weed in the Sargasso Sea in 1492.

point

binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae

class

Malacostraca

family

Grapsidae

genus

Planes (genus)

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda, Crab

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*, *Cancer cantonensis (Linnaeus 1747)refUnavailable pre-1758 name.group=Note, *Cancer minutus (Linnaeus 1758), *Cancer pusillus (Fabricius 1775), *Grapsus diris (Costa 1853), *Grapsus pelagicus (Say 1818), *Nautilograpsus smithii (MacLeay 1838), *Planes clypeatus (Bowdich 1825), *Planes linnaeana (Bell 1845)

latitude

28.0

longitude

-37.0