Talk:Hemigrapsus oregonensis

Wiki Education assignment: California Natural History
— Assignment last updated by Gcau (talk) 21:42, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Proposed merge 14 May 2024
A 2020 paper uses genetic and morphological comparisons to conclude that Hemigrapsus estellinensis (a crab from an inland Texas spring) is a junior synonym of Hemigrapsus oregonensis (a crab from the West Coast). The paper adds that the barnacles found in the Texas spring also represent West Coast species. The paper postulates that these Pacific marine species were introduced to Texas from railway timber cargos.

This 2020 paper is more recent than any of the sources cited in the current Wikipedia article Hemigrapsus estellinensis, and I'm not currently aware of any controversy that surrounds this finding.

Thus, the article Hemigrapsus estellinensis should be merged into Hemigrapsus oregonensis. Columbianmammoth (talk) 22:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)


 * If the DNA sequences show that H. estellinensis was a population of H. oregonensis, then we probably have no choice but to merge the former into the latter, perhaps as its own section? (or, "Reluctant agree to merge") Mr Fink (talk) 01:20, 15 May 2024 (UTC)