Sesarma

Sesarma
	Sesarma quadratum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Sesarmidae
Genus:	Sesarma; Say, 1817
Species
	18 + 1 cryptic species; see text

Sesarma is a genus of terrestrial crabs endemic to the Americas.^[1]^[2]

Many species within this genus live in mangroves. They have evolved to be fully terrestrial, which means they do not have to return to the sea even to spawn. Several species initially placed here are now placed in other genera of the Sesarmidae, and in some cases even elsewhere in the Grapsoidea.

Sesarma contains the following extant species:^[3]

Sesarma abeokuta Schubart & Santl, 2014^[4]
Sesarma aequatoriale Ortmann, 1894
Sesarma ayatum Reimer & Diesel, 1998
Sesarma bidentatum Benedict, 1892
Sesarma cookei Hartnoll, 1971
Sesarma crassipes Cano, 1889
Sesarma curacaoense De Man, 1892
Sesarma dolphinum Schubart & Diesel, 1998
Sesarma fossarum Reimer, Diesel & Türkay, 1997
Sesarma jarvisi Rathbun, 1913
Sesarma meridies Schubart & Koller, 2005
Sesarma rectum Randall, 1840
Sesarma reticulatum (Say, 1817)
Sesarma rhizophorae Rathbun, 1906
Sesarma rubinofforum Abele, 1973
Sesarma sulcatum Smith, 1870
Sesarma verleyi Rathbun, 1914
Sesarma windsor Türkay & Diesel, 1994

Sesarma nr. reticulatum, undescribed species related to Sesarma reticulatum^[5]

References

^ Lawrence G. Abele (1992). "A review of the grapsid crab genus Sesarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae) in America with the description of a new genus". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 527 (527): 1–60. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.527.
^ R. Serène & C.L. Soh (1970). "New Indo-Pacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1817 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea)" (PDF). Treubia. 27: 387–416.
^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
^ Christoph D. Schubart & Tobias Santl (2014). "Differentiation within a river system: Ecology or geography driven? Evolutionary significant units and new species in Jamaican freshwater crabs" (PDF). Crustaceana Monographs. 19: 173–191. doi:10.1163/9789004207615_011. ISBN 9789004207608.
^ Todd L. Zimmerman & Darryl L. Felder (1991). "Reproductive ecology of an intertidal brachyuran crab, Sesarma sp. (nr. reticulatum), from the Gulf of Mexico" (PDF). The Biological Bulletin. 181 (3): 387–401. doi:10.2307/1542359. JSTOR 1542359. PMID 29304676.

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[Abele-1] Lawrence G. Abele (1992). "A review of the grapsid crab genus Sesarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae) in America with the description of a new genus". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 527 (527): 1–60. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.527.

[2] R. Serène & C.L. Soh (1970). "New Indo-Pacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1817 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea)" (PDF). Treubia. 27: 387–416.

[Ng-3] Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.

[4] Christoph D. Schubart & Tobias Santl (2014). "Differentiation within a river system: Ecology or geography driven? Evolutionary significant units and new species in Jamaican freshwater crabs" (PDF). Crustaceana Monographs. 19: 173–191. doi:10.1163/9789004207615_011. ISBN 9789004207608.

[5] Todd L. Zimmerman & Darryl L. Felder (1991). "Reproductive ecology of an intertidal brachyuran crab, Sesarma sp. (nr. reticulatum), from the Gulf of Mexico" (PDF). The Biological Bulletin. 181 (3): 387–401. doi:10.2307/1542359. JSTOR 1542359. PMID 29304676.

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