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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Sesarmidae |
| Genus: | Aratus H. Milne-Edwards, 1853 |
| Species: | A. pisonii
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| Binomial name | |
| Aratus pisonii (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) [2]
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Sesarma pisonii H. Milne-Edwards, 1837 | |
Aratus pisonii, commonly known as the mangrove tree crab, is a species of crab which lives in mangrove trees in tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas, from Florida to Brazil on the Atlantic coast. A.pacificus occurs from Nicaragua to Peru on the Pacific coast. A. pisoni feeds mostly on the leaves of the mangroves, but is an omnivore, and prefers animal matter when possible.[4] A. pisonii and A. pacificus are the two species in the genus Aratus.[3] The specific epithet pisonii commemorates the Dutch naturalist Willem Piso who travelled in Brazil in 1638 with Georg Marggraf.[5]
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ "Aratus pisonii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ a b 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
- ^ Amy A. Erickson; Ilka C. Feller; Valerie J. Paul; Lisa M. Kwiatkowski; Woody Lee (2008). "Selection of an omnivorous diet by the mangrove tree crab Aratus pisonii in laboratory experiments". Journal of Sea Research. 59 (1–2): 59–69. Bibcode:2008JSR....59...59E. doi:10.1016/j.seares.2007.06.007.
- ^ Henri Milne-Edwards (1837). Histoire naturelle des crustacés: comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de Roret. pp. 76.