Carpilius convexus
| Carpilius convexus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Carpiliidae |
| Genus: | Carpilius |
| Species: | C. convexus |
| Binomial name | |
| Carpilius convexus (Forsskål, 1775) | |
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Carpilius convexus is a species of crab that lives in the Indo-Pacific, from Hawaii to the Red Sea and South Africa.[2] It was first described by Peter Forsskål in 1775 as "Cancer convexus", and has sometimes been treated as a variety of the larger species Carpilius maculatus.[2] The biology of the genus Carpilius is poorly known.[2]
References
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 Regina Wetzer, Joel W. Martin & Sandra E. Trautwein (2003). "Phylogenetic relationships within the coral crab genus Carpilius (Brachyura, Xanthoidea, Carpiliidae) and of the Carpiliidae to other xanthoid crab families based on molecular sequence data" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27 (3): 410–421. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00021-6. PMID 12742746.
External links
Media related to Carpilius convexus at Wikimedia Commons- Carpilius convexus, "Crabs of Japan"
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