Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Leucosilia jurinii
Cangrejo, Crab
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Leucosioidea
Family
Leucosiidae
Genus
Leucosilia
Species
jurinii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Guaia (Ilia) jurinii de Saussure, 1853 (Horton et al., 2021); Leucosia jurinei (Rathbun, 1925). .
Origin: Native
Distribution: (L. jurinei) Eastern Pacific, Panamic Gulf and Galapagos Islands (Garth, 1991).
- Garth, J.S. (1991) Taxonomy, Distribution, and Ecology of Galápagos. Brachyura. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrates. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 123-155.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Rathbun, Mary J. (1925) The spiders crabs of America. Rathbun, M. (1925). The spiders crabs of America. In Smitsonian Institution.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Leucosilia jurinii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19867. Accessed 17 June 2025.