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Leptograpsus Variegatus
''Leptograpsus variegatus'', known as the purple rock crab, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Grapsidae, found in southern subtropical Indo-Pacific Oceans. It grows to around shell width. It is the only species in the genus ''Leptograpsus''. __TOC__ Taxonomy ''Leptograpsus variegatus'' was first described in 1793 as ''Cancer. variegatus''. In 1803, ''C. variegatus'' was moved to the ''Grapsus'' genus and became ''Grapsus variegatus''. In 1818, 1842 and 1852, ''L. variegatus'' was described again as ''Grapsus personatus'', ''Grapsus strigilatus'' and ''Grapsus planifrons''. In 1853, Henri Milne-Edwards Henri Milne-Edwards (23 October 1800 – 29 July 1885) was an eminent French zoologist. Biography Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and colonel of the militia in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a Frenchw ... erected the ''Leptograpsus'' genus and used ''G. variegatus'' as the type taxon.MILNE EDWARDS, H. 1853. Memoire sur Ia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards (23 October 1800 – 29 July 1885) was an eminent French zoologist. Biography Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and colonel of the militia in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a Frenchwoman. Henri was born in Bruges, in present-day Belgium, where his parents had retired; Bruges was then a part of the newborn French Republic. His father had been jailed for several years for helping some Englishmen in their escape to their country. Henri spent most of his life in France. He was brought up in Paris by his older brother Guillaume Frederic Edwards (1777–1842), a distinguished physiologist and ethnologist. His father was released after the fall of Napoleon. The whole family then moved to Paris. At first he turned his attention to medicine, in which he graduated as an MD at Paris in 1823. His passion for natural history soon prevailed, and he gave himself up to the study of the lower forms of animal life. He became a stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
