Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Nemausa spinipes
Cangrejo, Crab
Origin and Affin. Eastern Pacifi
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleyocemata
Superfamily
Majoidea
Family
Mithracidae
Genus
Nemausa
Species
spinipes
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Mithrax mexicanus (Garth, 1991) Mithrax (Mithrax) mexicanus Glassell, 1936 (Horton et al., 2021); Pisa spinipes Bell, 1835, fide Appeltans et al. 2010
Origin: Native
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Garth, J.S. (1939) New Brachyuran crabs from the Galapagos Islands. Reports in the collections obtained by Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions of Velero III off the coast of Mexico, Central America, South America, and Galapagos Islands in 1932, in 1933, in 1934, in 1935, in 1936, in 1937, and in 1938. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 5(2): 9-49., The University of Southern California Publications.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Nemausa spinipes", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14498. Accessed 31 October 2026.