Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Coryrhynchus margaritarius (Rathbun, 1902)

cangrejo decorador de Galápagos, Galapagos decorator crabs

Length to 17 mm.

Extreme low littoral to a depth of at least 25 m.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Malacostraca

Order
Decapoda

Suborder
Pleocyemata

Superfamily
Majoidea

Family
Inachidae

Genus
Coryrhynchus

Species
margaritarius

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Podochela margaritaria Rathbun, 1902 (Horton et al., 2021). Note: This species was recorded as a synonym fide Appeltans et al. (2010)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)

References

  • 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.
  • Coelho, P.A. (2010) Revisão de Podochela Stimpson e gêneros afins nas costas caribenha e atlântica da América do Sul (Crustacea, Decapoda, Inachidae). Rev. Bras. Zool. [serial on the Internet]. 2006 Sep [cited 2010 May 19] ; 23(3): 678-691. Available from: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752006000300010&lng=en. doi: 10.1590/S0101-81752006000300010.
  • Hickman, C.P. Jr. Zimmerman, T.L. (2000) A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 156 pp.
  • 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.
  • IUCN (2010) IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 April 2010.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Coryrhynchus margaritarius", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8470. Accessed 4 November 2026.