Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Albunea lucasia
spiny mole crab, Cangrejo muy espinoso
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Hippoidea
Family
Albuneidae
Genus
Albunea
Species
lucasia
Taxon category: Accepted
Albuminea lucasia de Saussure, 1853 (Lapsus), fide Appeltans et al. 2012
Origin: Native
Distribution: Panamá, México, Guatemala, Costa Rica y Ecuador included Galapagos Islands
- 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.
- Boyko, C.B. (2002) A Worldwide Revision of the Recent and Fossil Sand Crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Hippoidea). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 272: 1-396.
- Hendrickx, M.E. (1995) Anomuros. In: Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K.E. & Niem V.H. (eds.): Guía FAO para la Idetificación de especies para los fines de pesca. Pacífico centro-Oriental. Vol. I. Plantas e inverebrados. FAO, Roma, p. 539-564.
You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.
This page should be cited as follows:
"Galapagos Species Database, Albunea lucasia", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16773. Accessed 2 May 2025.