Talk:Hemigrapsus estellinensis

Hemigrapsus estellinensis was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
November 30, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
October 14, 2024	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 1, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that until 1962, a salt-water crab lived in the Texas Panhandle, 500 miles from the sea?

Current status: Delisted good article

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Have no published suggestions how the crab reached the spring been put forward? It seems the single most interesting feature. --Wetman (talk) 02:37, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not that I've seen. The species has been largely ignored, probably because of the dearth of material to work with. Creel stated dryly that "The present geographies would indicate a long isolation of [H. oregonensis] from H. estellinensis", but didn't suggest any mechanisms. It may be tempting to invoke a relict marine population from the Western Interior Seaway, particularly since there appeared to be a diverse marine assemblage in the spring, but Cretaceous is probably just too old (reliable crab fossils only appear in the Jurassic, for instance). It remains a mystery. --Stemonitis (talk) 08:15, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking of the Cretaceous seaway: a stretch, but everything seems a stretch: crab eggs on seagull feet?--Wetman (talk) 07:21, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In an online abstract of Christoph D. Schubart, José A. Cuesta, Rudolf Diesel and Darryl L. Felder, "Molecular Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Evolution of Nonmarine Lineages within the American Grapsoid Crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura)", from Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15.2, (May 2000:179-190), I'm reading "Colonization of inland habitats evolved in several lineages of the grapsoids, resulting in various forms of nonmarine life and different degrees of independence from the sea." Perhaps someone more competent )that would be easy!) than I... --Wetman (talk) 01:09, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 21:06, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a very interesting subject. I'm just claiming this one now, and I'll give the review later tonight or tomorrow morning. J Milburn (talk) 21:06, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you need to make it clearer earlier on that it's extinct- it should be in sentence one, unless we're not certain that it is.

Done. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You bounce between past and present tense in the description section

Done. Now all in present tense. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"by 240 t per day." What does "t" stand for?

Done. Used {{convert}}. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Taking a look at the primary source, there seems to be a lot more details available in terms of physical description- is there any reason not to include them? I also note the details about the eggs, and slightly more detailed comparisons to other species.

Done, I think. If you can see anything else that you think worthy of inclusion, I'll try to work it in. --Stemonitis (talk) 18:59, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Worth mentioning that the species is named after the locality? A taxonomy section would be a possibility- that could include the collection details and its relationship with other species in the genus. With articles like this, even the small details are probably worth including- there's plenty of space!

Not done. I have checked and double-checked the paper, and I can't see that Creel ever says so explicitly. It's perfectly obvious that the species is named after the location, but that doesn't ever seem to be stated outright. --Stemonitis (talk) 12:35, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of categories which may be worth adding: Category:Extinctions since 1500, Category:Species made extinct by human activities, Category:Extinct invertebrates (there doesn't seem to be anything more specific) and Category:Extinct animals of the United States

Done. I so rarely deal with recent extinctions that I overlooked these categories. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to suggest a non-free image, but as the holotype and paratypes still exist, that probably wouldn't meet the NFCC. We'll just have to wait until Creel's works fall into the public domain- a few decades yet!
To make sure there was nothing missed in terms of sources, I had a look around, and found an interesting article. While that blog post is certainly not a reliable source, unless the author can be shown to be an expert, it does mention that there are some thoughts on the species in Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (Thorp & Covich, 2001). Is that something you'd be able to get hold of? There's not a copy in my library- you could just use the page reference from the blog post, but I can say from experience that that isn't always a good idea.

That blog post (which is what first alerted me to the species) is in the External Links. I'll try and dig out the book, because at the moment that's the only hypothesis we've got for the bizarre distribution. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've just requested the book from my institution's library stacks. It should be available within the next few days. --Stemonitis (talk) 12:20, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great! I checked, but it's not available in my library. J Milburn (talk) 13:32, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. It does indeed say exactly what the blog quoted, on page 964 (even though the Index says it's on p. 960). Sadly, it says nothing more of use. Although the chapter is supposed to be about Decapoda (generally), it explicitly limits itself to freshwater crayfish and shrimp very early on. --Stemonitis (talk) 12:28, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hope these thoughts were helpful. This really is an interesting subject- I'd love to see the article go as far as possible. J Milburn (talk) 21:52, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, very helpful. I think I've dealt with everything you've mentioned so far. Any further suggestions? --Stemonitis (talk) 18:59, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A few last things-

The tenses still seem inconsistent in the description section.

Done – fixed one stray "had".

Concerning the pool's measurement, the foot measurement seems to be to the nearest five, so having anything more precise than whole metres is not really appropriate.

Done – rounded to nearest metre.

You appear to give two depths; it's really not clear what's meant by that.

Done – reworded; I think it's clearer now.

The line about the living specimens seems tacked on where it is right now; would it perhaps fit elsewhere?

Done – moved to the paragraph on collections, which makes sense I think.

If you can deal with these, I'd be happy to promote. The lack of detail in the original article may well mean that this couldn't become a featured article, unless a little more speculation about it could be found in a reliable source. J Milburn (talk) 21:30, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great- promoting now. Very interesting article; it's a shame there's not so much out there about this species. As an aside, this is the 100th GA review I have completed. J Milburn (talk) 12:08, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! And many thanks. --Stemonitis (talk) 13:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Fate of this page

A recent publication sequenced collected material of H. estellinensis and identified barnacles collected at the same time, concluding that H. estellinensis is a junior synonym of H. oreganus and that crab and barnacles were perhaps introduced via logs shipped by rail from the Pacific Northwest. Perhaps the bulk of the text could be moved to a new article, Estelline Salt Spring, and H. estellinensis then redirected to H. oreganus? Choess (talk) 02:01, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]