Sesarma

{{Short description|Genus of crabs}}

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| image = Sesarma quadratum.jpg

| image_caption = Sesarma quadratum

| taxon = Sesarma

| authority = Say, 1817

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 18 + 1 cryptic species; see text

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Sesarma is a genus of terrestrial crabs endemic to the Americas.{{cite journal |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology |year=1992 |volume=527 |pages=1–60 |title=A review of the grapsid crab genus Sesarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae) in America with the description of a new genus |author=Lawrence G. Abele |url=http://si-pddr.si.edu/handle/10088/5413 |issue=527|doi=10.5479/si.00810282.527|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |journal=Treubia |year=1970 |volume=27 |pages=387–416 |title=New Indo-Pacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1817 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea) |author=R. Serène |author2=C.L. Soh |issue=4 |doi=10.14203/treubia.v27i4.2783 |name-list-style=amp |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/22444/22444.pdf}}

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:{{cite journal |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2008 |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |author=Peter K. L. Ng |author2=Danièle Guinot |author3=Peter J. F. Davie |name-list-style=amp |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf}}

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• Sesarma abeokuta Schubart & Santl, 2014{{cite journal |author=Christoph D. Schubart |author2=Tobias Santl |name-list-style=amp |year=2014 |title=Differentiation within a river system: Ecology or geography driven? Evolutionary significant units and new species in Jamaican freshwater crabs |journal=Crustaceana Monographs |volume=19 |pages=173–191 |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/38951/38951.pdf |doi=10.1163/9789004207615_011|isbn=9789004207608 }}
• 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{{cite journal |author=Todd L. Zimmerman |author2=Darryl L. Felder |name-list-style=amp |year=1991 |title=Reproductive ecology of an intertidal brachyuran crab, Sesarma sp. (nr. reticulatum), from the Gulf of Mexico |journal=The Biological Bulletin |volume=181 |issue=3 |pages=387–401 |doi=10.2307/1542359 |url=http://www.biolbull.org/content/181/3/387.full.pdf |jstor=1542359|pmid=29304676 }}

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